Firefox has very low penetration into the UK

Following on from my last post about Firefox 3's excellent location bar functionality, I had a quick look at some stats on browser usage across Europe.

Sadly for my argument, it turns out that Firefox has a pretty low penetration into the UK market compared with the rest of Europe.

Here's a great map from Xitimonitor of Firefox penetration into Europe as of December 2007.  (Actually the UK isn't quite the lowest - the Netherlands and the Ukraine are a tiny bit lower.)

Not sure why this should be the case - innate conservatism perhaps.  Interesting to see whether Firefox 3 will change this.