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Firefox Browser Use Drops As Mozilla's Worst Microsoft Edge Fears Come True
Back in April, we reported that the Edge browser is quickly gaining market share now that Microsoft has transitioned from the EdgeHTML engine to the more widely used Chromium engine (which also underpins Google's Chrome browser). At the time, Edge slipped into the second-place slot for desktop web browsers, with a 7.59 percent share of the market. This dropped Mozilla's Firefox – which has long been the second-place browser behind Chrome – into third place.
Now, at the start of August, we're getting some fresh numbers in for the desktop browser market, and things aren't looking good for Mozilla. Microsoft increased its share of the browser market from 8.07 percent in June to 8.46 percent in July. Likewise, Firefox fell from 7.58 percent to 7.27 percent according to NetMarketShare.
[...] As for Mozilla, the company wasn't too happy when Microsoft first announced that it was going to use Chromium for Edge way back in December 2018. Mozilla's Chris Beard at the time accused Microsoft of "giving up" by abandoning EdgeHTML in favor of Chromium. "Microsoft's decision gives Google more ability to single-handedly decide what possibilities are available to each one of us," said Beard at the time. "We compete with Google because the health of the internet and online life depend on competition and choice."
[...] Microsoft developer Kenneth Auchenberg fought back the following January, writing, "Thought: It's time for Mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really *cared* about the web they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than 5 percent."
Is the browser monoculture inevitable or will Firefox hang in there?
Previously:
Mozilla Teases Chromium-Based Firefox, Then Pulls Back
Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share for First Time
Netmarketshare Claims Mozilla Firefox Usage Drops Below Ten Percent
Microsoft Intercepting Firefox, Chrome Installation on Windows 10 Insider Build
Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS
Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google
Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium
Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google
Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:47PM (2 children)
The <u> tag for underlined text has been around since the Stone Age, and still works just fine. The idiots in charge tried to depreciate it and had to backtrack. Soylentnews doesn't allow it for $REASON or I'd show you.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday August 05 2020, @07:47PM (1 child)
OK, I didn't know they'd backtracked. I don't use html on newsgroups, so Soylent News policy wasn't the reason. I just had to build a bunch of pages about a year ago, and was told that the underscore tag had been removed, and to code it in CSS. There are a couple of other formatting tags that I also had to use CSS for, though I don't remember which. Underscore is the one that sticks in my memory as "really absurd". There was something about positioning a framed hunk of text next to a paragraph that turned out to be trickier than it used to be.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 05 2020, @08:55PM
If you want a blast from the past, the <marquee > tag, which was never standard, still works (at least in Firefox and Opera ). <blink> doesn't.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.