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Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Ars Technica: For the first time, Firefox has pulled ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge browsers. Mozilla's Firefox grabbed 15.6 percent of worldwide desktop browser usage in April, according to the latest numbers from Web analytics outfit StatCounter. Google Chrome continues to dominate two thirds of the market. StatCounter, which analyzed 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. Firefox has reportedly been losing market share over the last three months, but Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer browsers appear to be declining faster. Last week, Mozilla launched Test Pilot, a program for trying out experimental Firefox features. They've also been fighting the FBI in court for details about a vulnerability in the Tor Browser hack, which may affect the company since the Tor browser is partially based on the Firefox browser code.
Who the fuck cares about extensions in this case? That isn't even the issue. Edge fucking sucks. It's an unstable pile of garbage. We have forty computers running it, and we've had to set Chrome or Firefox as default browser (and PDF reader as well, Edge is equally shitty at displaying PDFs) because of instabilities that, in many cases bring up lovely error dialogs when it tries to start.
It is a piece of worthless fucking garbage, a toy browser, built on the Metro UI, even as Microsoft backs away from Metro.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
FTFY:
"Firefox 'Tops' Microsoft browser share.... if you don't count chrome which has an 60% install base"
Seriously, I expect this type of clickbait on BuzzFeed, not Slashdot :/.
Well yes, Firefox tops Microsoft browser share whether or not you choose to count Chrome, since Chrome is neither Firefox or Microsoft. In other words, Summary Title, which did not imply that Firefox had the most browser share, is not misleading at all. Unless you want to mislead yourself and then get upset about it.
Seriously, I expect this type of post from ACs.
Forking is the answer. When closed source developers decide to turn around and make their product into a steaming pile of shit, and your options are steaming pile of shit and nothing. This is where OSS shines, especially when OSS devs decide to make their product into a steaming pile of shit, there is someone out there turning around and fixing it. That's what Palemoon has done for Firefox.
Om, nomnomnom...
Rotation of staff. The people who were there when the previous fuckups happened are long gone. So new people in new seats and coming up with BRILLIANT ideas, which repeat the fuckups. Wash rinse repeat. I would also bet that the people doing the coding are not the people making the decisions, it's either marketing or fucking business making these asshole decisions. I would bet if you spoke to any of the actual software engineers they would say that they didn't have a choice, the decision to do XYZ again came down from the top. What microsoft needs to start doing is listening to their fucking engineers and not their fucking bean counters. They are a SOFTWARE company, and by not listening to their SOFTWARE people they are killing themselves. I have been a MS stack programmer since I left school and even I am starting to drift away from microsoft, the only PC's in my house running windows now are gaming rigs, everything else is running linux.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
Can't use anything but Outlook? Seriously? How massively incompetent are you? You should be fired for being such a useless moron. No one so pathetic and pointless in their job should be employed.
Perhaps you should have read more carefully - with a view to understanding - before you started calling people morons:
...peoples inability to user any other mail application besides Outlook.
To me, that suggests he is talking about about somebody other than himself. I expect you will now be considering your own position, if in fact you are employed.