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Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share for First Time

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 18 2016, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the Firefox-has-the-Edge? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 1, Redundant) by Gravis on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:21PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Wednesday May 18 2016, @02:21PM (#347829)

    It could just be that Edge is _that_ bad, and people are ditching it more quickly.

    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.

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