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Can the New Firefox Quantum Regain its Web Browser Market Share?

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the quantum-leap dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/mozilla-market-share/

When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite. Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be the best web browser, since it was faster, more secure, offered tabbed browsing and was more customizable through extensions than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. When Chrome was introduced in 2008, it took many of Firefox's best ideas and improved on them. Since 2010, Chrome has eaten away at Firefox's market share, relegating Firefox to a tiny niche of free software enthusiasts and tinkerers who like the customization of its XUL extensions.

According to StatCounter, Firefox's market share of web browsers has fallen from 31.8% in December 2009 to just 6.1% today. Firefox can take comfort in the fact that it is now virtually tied with its former arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer and its variants. All of Microsoft's browsers only account for 6.2% of current web browsing according to StatCounter. Microsoft has largely been replaced by Google, whose web browsers now controls 56.5% of the market. Even worse, is the fact that the WebKit engine used by Google now represents over 83% of web browsing, so web sites are increasingly focusing on compatibility with just one web engine. While Google and Apple are more supportive of W3C and open standards than Microsoft was in the late 90s, the web is increasingly being monopolized by one web engine and two companies, whose business models are not always based on the best interests of users or their rights.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 26 2017, @01:25PM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 26 2017, @01:25PM (#601716) Journal

    I wonder 50 years from how the SJWs and their detractors will look.

    At least the '70 hippies let some good music alive behind them: Marley, Joplin, Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Baez, Santana (mmm.... Mahavishnu orchestra, Zappa, Jethro Tull, which-one's-Pink Floyd).
    I can't say the same about the ones today.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday November 26 2017, @02:50PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday November 26 2017, @02:50PM (#601733) Journal

    Ah, Jethro Tull..... Good times, good songs, fond mammaries! ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:47PM (#601762)
    Someone said the time of the hippies (60s and 70s) was a great time:
    1) Antibiotics still worked fairly well
    2) HIV not widespread yet
    3) The Pill
    4) The Sexual Revolution

    There was also stuff like Concorde, the Jumbo Jet, the Man on the Moon. Missions to Mars etc.

    And more obscure but still revolutionary stuff like Douglas Engelbart's The Mother of all Demos and Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by jimshatt on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:00PM (1 child)

    by jimshatt (978) on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:00PM (#601775) Journal
    I bet 70's c0lo wouldn't say the same about 70's music back then. Maybe 2060's c0lo will look back to now and say: "Ah, the good old times [wikipedia.org]. At least they had some decent music back then, and browsers still did non-VR." Or something.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 26 2017, @10:11PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 26 2017, @10:11PM (#601855) Journal

      True, true...
      Only, for the life at me, I can't remember Rosy! (grin)

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