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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the approved-using-a-Pale-Moon-browser dept.

Netmarketshare reports that Mozilla Firefox's share of the desktop and notebook computer web browser market has fallen below ten percent.

Firefox had a market share of 12.63% in June 2017 according to Netmarketshare and even managed to rise above the 13% mark in 2017 before its share fell to 9.92% in May 2018.

Google Chrome, Firefox's biggest rival in the browser world, managed to increase its massive lead from 60.08% in June 2017 to 62.85% in May 2018.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer dropped a percent point to 11.82% in May 2018 and Microsoft's Edge browser gained less than 0.50% to 4.26% over the year.

[...] Netmarketshare collects usage stats and does not get "real" numbers from companies like Mozilla, Google or Microsoft. The company monitors the use of browsers on a subset of Internet sites and creates the market share reports using the data it collects.

While that is certainly good enough for trends if the number of monitored user interactions is high enough, it is not completely accurate and real-world values can be different based on a number of factors. While it is unlikely that they differ a lot, it is certainly possible that the share is different to the one reported by the company.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:47PM (2 children)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:47PM (#688874)

    The speed improvements may be too late, but they're not too little. Firefox seriously holds its own against Chrome now for speed across the board, and wins big in a few benchmarks.

    I never cared what either browser did to the UI. I'll start complaining when they ditch the address bar and tabs.

    The rapid release was never a problem for me. Chrome releases just as quickly, it's just transparent to users.

    I don't see how Mozilla could support XP after Microsoft stopped supporting it. That's an unreasonable expectation.

    I do encounter websites that don't work properly for Firefox. Not often, but it happens. Fandango.com ( a movie ticket site ) is one, some Ajax portions of their web pages hang indefinitely on Firefox but pop right up in Chrome.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:54AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:54AM (#689102)

    The speed improvements may be too late, but they're not too little. Firefox seriously holds its own against Chrome now for speed across the board, and wins big in a few benchmarks.

    It's easy to speed things up when you never release any RAM and don't do garbage collection.

    • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:45PM

      by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:45PM (#689471)

      My computer is eight years old with an AMD processor, so by modern standards it's dog slow. But it's got 12GB of RAM, so Firefox memory use doesn't bother me.

      Chrome is pretty memory hungry too.