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Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for the first time across the globe.
Mozilla's Firefox grabbed 15.6 percent of worldwide desktop browser usage in April, according to the latest numbers from Web analytics outfit StatCounter.
However, neither browser threatens the market leader—Google's Chrome continues to command two thirds of the market.
StatCounter, which analysed data from three million websites, found that Firefox's worldwide desktop browser usage last month was 0.1 percent ahead of the combined share of Internet Explorer and Edge at 15.5 percent.
Although it does often seem that Firefox has pulled ahead of MS in memory usage...
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(Score: 2) by b0ru on Wednesday May 18 2016, @01:43PM
It could just be that Edge is _that_ bad, and people are ditching it more quickly. Firefox, if anything, has gotten worse and worse; it's been enough to drive me, and other long time MIS/Seamonkey/Firefox users, off to find other browsers -- in my case, Pale Moon (when `links -g` doesn't suffice). It's a fork of Firefox when it was far less obnoxious and slow. Plugins are, for the most part, compatible, where no alternatives exist: I use pendactyl, ublock origin, umatrix, user agent switcher, foxy proxy and noscript in various configurations, all without issue.
(Score: 5, Informative) by AndyTheAbsurd on Wednesday May 18 2016, @01:55PM
Pale Moon began as a fork of Firefox; it's diverged far enough that it's effectively it's own thing now (unlike several other "alternative" browsers that are essentially just rebrands of Firefox). And the Pale Moon devs have committed to continuing to support XUL-based extensions, which Mozilla will be deprecating, so existing extensions that work today should continue to work for the foreseeable future.
For those interested in checking it out: Main website [palemoon.org], 64-bit Windows version [palemoon.org], 32-bit Windows version [palemoon.org], special build for people still on XP [palemoon.org] (although if you're still on XP, you're probably crazy IMO), and Pale Moon for Linux site [palemoon.org].
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:12PM
It'll be interesting to see what happens when they switch over the extension system. I mean, Mozilla is the one hosting the database, so at least some rehosting will need to be done.
And to see how many extension developers are okay with completely rewriting their stuff, assuming it's even possible with the Chromification.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by AndyTheAbsurd on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:32PM
The developers of Pale Moon have been working on a mirror of addons.mozilla.org (codename Project Looking Glass), so there's at least some work that's been done for that already; plus they've already got their own addons.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]. I don't think that Project Looking Glass has been mentioned publicly by anyone working on the project outside of their IRC channel, though, as it's not complete and I don't see any mention of it on their forum.
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(Score: 2) by BananaPhone on Wednesday May 18 2016, @03:41PM
They better start squawking about it or else 50+% will just go to Chrome when the kill the extension support.
And that's even if Moz blinks and bring it back.
Pale moon could double it's user-base when Moz aims higher than their feet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:10PM
> It could just be that Edge is _that_ bad, and people are ditching it more quickly.
From the chart, the rate of ditching is decreasing, not increasing.
Something missing from these reports is the total size of the market. Telling us the percentage breakdown is only half the story. If the total number of users is growing even a diminishing marketshare could still mean an increasing number of users.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Gravis on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:21PM
if you had bothered to even look at the big ol' graph in the article, you would have seen that both Firefox and IE/Edge shares are shrinking and that the one for IE/Edge is just shrinking faster. so yeah, the data is backing up what you presumed.