With a total of 4 million people connected to the Internet (out of a 22 million population), Romania is not so well educated computer-related. Of course, we have folks at Microsoft and Google, we do a lot of online crime, but that’s not what this story is about.
Browsers are a fun tool to use. We hate Internet Explorer, we pride on Opera and Firefox, we feel good as we use Safari.
In Romania, figures are close to the world trend. Internet Explorer is on a permanent downfall (although reports and articles speculate that version 7 will get back some users), while Mozilla Firefox and Opera are gaining ground.
We conducted a little study in the past month, analyzing the data provided by trafic.ro on top sites in Romania and these numbers came up. IE is at the top, with 80% of the market share. Firefox is gaining, slow and sure, more and more users, this month reaching 13%. We teamed Opera versions 8 and 9 to a single value, 4%, which we consider being low for a fast and capable browser.
We are hoping to see changes in the following months, mainly in Firefox’s favor.

Browser market share in Romania
Internet Explorer 6.x 11.314.000 80%
Firefox 1.0 1.964.000 13%
Opera 560.000 4%
Others 162.000 3%
Total 14.000.000 100%