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Netmarketshare reports that Mozilla Firefox's share of the desktop and notebook computer web browser market has fallen below ten percent.
Firefox had a market share of 12.63% in June 2017 according to Netmarketshare and even managed to rise above the 13% mark in 2017 before its share fell to 9.92% in May 2018.
Google Chrome, Firefox's biggest rival in the browser world, managed to increase its massive lead from 60.08% in June 2017 to 62.85% in May 2018.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer dropped a percent point to 11.82% in May 2018 and Microsoft's Edge browser gained less than 0.50% to 4.26% over the year.
[...] Netmarketshare collects usage stats and does not get "real" numbers from companies like Mozilla, Google or Microsoft. The company monitors the use of browsers on a subset of Internet sites and creates the market share reports using the data it collects.
While that is certainly good enough for trends if the number of monitored user interactions is high enough, it is not completely accurate and real-world values can be different based on a number of factors. While it is unlikely that they differ a lot, it is certainly possible that the share is different to the one reported by the company.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by SunTzuWarmaster on Tuesday June 05 2018, @01:14PM (2 children)
Sure, I get that. But imagine that you have a sign that says "No Hawaiian shirts!" and your typical customer walks either a) with a non-Hawaiian, or b) physically carrying multiple shirts. Its not like there are people out there with only Firefox. The people that use Firefox either a) use Windows and have IE, Edge, or both, b) use Apple, and have Safari, c) use Linux and have a variety of custom environments and are used to being kinda screwed in general, or d) use mobile which means Safari/Chrome.
You have to support Safari and Chrome (mobile) and IE (XP, Win10) and probably Edge. You don't really have to support anything else (Dolphin, Firefox), as the people that have those other things also have something from the first categories.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday June 05 2018, @01:49PM
And like most web developers, you miss the point that switching to a different web browser is not as trivial as it may seem to YOU. Some people chose to use a specific browser for a reason. You are essentially telling these people "fuck you". Others don't even know what a web browser is, and switching may mean re-learning a lot of crap. And then there still may still be some who truly can not even if they wanted to due policies or configuration on their computer.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @01:55PM
Deh, blacks should simply paint themselves white cuz they have access to the tools to do so.