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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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday May 18 2016, @04:01PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday May 18 2016, @04:01PM (#347872) Journal

    I recall an article a few months ago about Firefox's share dropping below the magic double digit line, 10%. What's going on, is browser usage really fluctuating that much, or do we have a case of biased application and reporting of statistics?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2016, @05:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2016, @05:04PM (#347894)

    Web browser statistics vary wildly depending on what web sites are measured and whether the measurements depend on allowing JavaScript or 3rd party web bugs. More proficient users are much more likely to block those. Also, IE users are among the least technical and least likely to change or spoof user agent which is used to make some of the figures.

    It's a mess. Lies, damned lies, and statistics!