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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @01:35PM
They don't say whether they've uniquely identified users or are just counting the web traffic. And if they're using Google analytics, well, Chrome makes attempts to contact alternate analytics servers in case you've blackholed the primary hostname.
Beyond that, if it *is* web traffic, I use Firefox *specifically* because it has better options for limiting undesired web traffic to 3rd party servers. Most web connections are just that: undesired.
Not that I expect to hear people are in love with Firefox all of a sudden. I kind of hate it, the only good thing they've added lately is Quantum, and that at the cost of the ease-of-use extensions that made the experience tolerable.