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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2016, @08:19PM
Not to mention that most new additions to the Internet's population are normies browsing on Android phones--which is often their only "computer". Hell, they probably don't know you can even install alternative browsers. They just use what comes preinstalled; for most of them that's Google Chrome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 18 2016, @08:56PM
actually my original comment was a bit "tongue in cheek".
Not everything should be about market-share.
firefox/mozilla "sold itself" as a thing from users for users and not "say "AHHHH!" and we are going to stuff it down your throat, like it or not, we are $oft
and we are like a bad tooth-ache on each and every new computer straight out of the box".
On a side note: I can "sell" the firefox mobile version pretty good with the fact that you can open youtube in one tab
browse to another tab (or even another progra... err app) and ... the sound continues : )
so you can, for example, listen to a youtube video in firefox mobile (minimized) and use some pdf reader app to read something.