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Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share for First Time

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2016-05-17 16:21:32
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Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [arstechnica.com] 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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