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...
(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.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(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.