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

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) by toddestan on Saturday May 21 2016, @05:10PM

    by toddestan (4982) on Saturday May 21 2016, @05:10PM (#349138)

    Chrome is pretty buggy. The only reason it's not more obvious is because it's impossible to ignore so everyone makes sure that their website works with the latest Chrome. But try an a version that's a few old and you'll find a lot of stuff is broken. Browse with a version of Firefox that's a few versions back and the experience really isn't any different because Firefox stays a lot closer to the standards (whereas Webkit/Blink like to make up their own standards).

    If you ask me, Google is trying really hard to turn Chrome into what Internet Explorer was 15 years ago.

  • (Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Saturday May 21 2016, @10:09PM

    by Capt. Obvious (6089) on Saturday May 21 2016, @10:09PM (#349282)

    Which I would understand (but hate) as a strategic decision. But, as I said, even Google's own site/services are buggy in Chrome. (Although on the computer with an outdated version of Chrome, it seems to still work, and only on the computer with auto-updating Chrome is there a problem).