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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 19 2016, @02:27AM
Somewhere I found a demographic chart of who visits my website with Bing. It may have been in Bing Webmaster Tools but I don't recall.
Those who find my site with Bing are overwhelmingly either low- or high-income. Those in the middle class use Google.
I expect this is because cheap computers come with Windows, and because business users overwhelmingly use Windows. Most people use the browser that's built in.
The middle class uses Macintoshes, or at least knows how to find a search engine all by their lonesomes.
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