世論 What Japan Thinks

Today, japan.internet.com published the results of a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into browsers installed on corporate computers. 330 people from their monitor pool employed in private or public enterprises successfully completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 80.0% of the sample was male, 12.4% in their twenties, 42.1% in their thirties, 30.9% in their forties, 13.0% in their fifties, and 1.5% in their sixties.

The figures for Internet Explorer are spectacularly high. Dropping those with no browser or no computer and the don’t knows, almost 98% of users may be running IE, and even including all the don’t knows still leaves at best (or is it at worst?) just under 90% definitely with Internet Explorer. One reason, of course, is that many corporate intranet applications may require a specific browser, as my employer’s does. Note that Sleipnir is just an Internet Explorer shell, although Gen Kanai’s blog informs me that it can be switched to use the Firefox/Gecko engine instead.

For the open source Mozilla project, at best there are 54 identifiable users, or 18.9% of those who know their browser, but that is assuming that the Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla user groups do not overlap, and of course that the Netscape category doesn’t include people using a pre-open source 4.x (or even earlier!) version.

Q1: On the computer you use at work (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc), how many browsers do you have installed? (Sample size=330)

One (to SQ1)	71.8%
Two (to SQ2)	13.9%
Three or more (to SQ2)	3.9%
None	1.2%
Don’t use a PC at work	0.9%
Don’t know	8.2%

Q1SQ1: What is the name of the browser you have installed? (Sample size=237)

Internet Explorer	98.7%
Netscape	0.4%
Firefox	0.0%
Safari	0.0%
Opera	0.0%
Sleipnir	0.0%
Mozilla	0.0%
Other	0.8%

Q1SQ2: What are the names of the browsers you have installed? (Sample size=59, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Internet Explorer	56	95%
Netscape	29	49%
Firefox	20	34%
Sleipnir	14	24%
Opera	5	8%
Safari	5	8%
Mozilla	2	3%
Other	3	5%