The German government's warning against using Internet Explorer has led to a huge increase in Firefox and Opera downloads.

"According to a post by Mozilla's Ken Kovash on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, more than 300,000 downloads of the [Firefox] open source browser took place during the recent Friday to Monday period," according to The H Security. "Similarly, Opera also reportedly saw downloads of its browser in Germany more than double."

"In the days before the... warning, the average number of daily Firefox downloads ranged from just over 50,000 to approximately 90,000 between Christmas Eve and Boxing day, likely due to the number of new computers being received as gifts," the article states.

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