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Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share for First Time

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 18 2016, @01:29PM   
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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• What are browser stats for SN I wonder? (Score: 4, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Thursday May 19 2016, @02:26AM

  by stormwyrm (717) on Thursday May 19 2016, @02:26AM (#348114) Journal

  I wonder what browser user agents are seen by SoylentNews itself. That might be interesting, and I imagine it should have a larger proportion of Firefox and Pale Moon, though Chrome and Chromium might still be high, and I doubt Edge or IE would have a large proportion, despite all of that "surfing at work" that we used to hear about at the old site.

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