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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:44PM
If you have the CPU for it, try Brave. No more fiddling with NoScript or ad blockers, just raise the Shields and the Internet is survivable. But you do need some serious CPU grunt, got a laptop with an old dual core Intel that chugs too much so it still runs Firefox LTS + NoScript + Ghostery, etc. but on a fast desktop Brave is now primary browser material. Still have Chrome and Firefox installed, just in case, but haven't needed them for months now.
There was a time when my loyalty to Mozilla was unshakable. No more. Between the vile politics and the technical incompetence it is simply impossible to defend them, support them or do anything but cheer their impending well deserved demise. Hopefully more capable hands pick up the code base and lead to a renewal because having all browsers derive from a single code base is dangerous.