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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.
Firefox: Still the only browser I know of that properly supports side tabs via the TreeStylesTab plug in.
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Honestly I have to agree at this point...initial impressions of Windows 10 in my case were great. Then the articles about the data collection and myriad privacy settings you needed to turn off in order to avoid everything but the kitchen sink being uploaded to Microsoft's servers. The 10586 update came out and the touchscreen on my laptop would no longer work, because apparently there was no driver available...it worked on a clean install, an update literally blew it away.
They're not only expecting people to tolerate that mess, they're expecting them to tolerate that mess on top of the ads they're going to be sticking all over the consumer version of the OS in short order... I honestly have no idea what the strategy is here. It seems like every division of Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot. They've got a lot of numbers on their side, yes, but not many fans...and in the corporate world, one of the few places where Microsoft actually -can- make money, they're not liking the changes either. The business customers are what keep Microsoft afloat, if they don't have them they don't have anything.
Please let us know how you really feel about Edge.
Actually I thought he was pulling his punches. Edge is the most remarkably awful browser I've ever tried. Might as well try to surf porn with Lynx.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Honestly I have to agree at this point...initial impressions of Windows 10 in my case were great....
I was the same when they dropped the first consumer technical releases, it was great, everything Windows 8 should have been. Then Microsoft finally dropped the stable release for mass consumption and it was good. When they offered the free upgrade to Windows 10 I started moving my company over to it.
Now, after experiencing Windows 10 day in and day out at the office, and the constant bewilderment of Microsoft's decisions regarding it, I have come to like Windows 10 less and less. I am to the point now where I prefer Windows 8.1 over 10. As it stands, I intend to pitch Linux as a viable alternative for our business in the near future. About the only thing that would really tie us to Windows at this point is peoples inability to user any other mail application besides Outlook. And I desperately want to cure people of that horrid mail client. ;)
I suppose it works mostly well and it's fast but as a nerd who's been on Firefox since before it was called Firefox (I've finally forgotten the other name) I prefer FF.
I mean, ok, google don't want me to skin Chrome? Ok fine, fine - but do you think I can find a decent tab mix plus alternative? I *NEED* tab mix plus, I utterly need it.
I 'learnt' tabbed browsing with NetCaptor (skin over the top of IE, added tabbed browsing, it was very good for its day) and I found and still find the tap ordering the most logical with it, by far.
Tab Mix Plus provides incredibly powerful tab control options, so I can replicate NetCaptor under FF.
My firefox does this:
*Middle click a link*, open in the background, one tab slot to the RIGHT of the current tab (inserting itself)
*CTRL N* (new tab) opens a tab, one tab slot to the RIGHT of the current tab, in the foreground
*Close tab*, closes tab and takes you to the tab to the LEFT of the one you just closed.
Duplicate tab (CTRL-ALT-T), same as middle click, opens a copy of the existing tab to the RIGHT of current tab and in the background
Now I suppose if you're not used to that system and you're used to chrome, that probably sounds awful? For me, I find it immensely logical. I NEVER want a new tab or duplicate tab or middle click tab to open right at the very end of my tab grouping, why would I want that? I want this new piece of data, right next to me, where I'm working.
I don't know if finer tab control options are blocked in Chrome or not but no such addon yet exists, built in ability to do this doesn't exist. Considering the age of Chrome and the popularity of TMP, I can only guess Chrome has simply not go the option to do it.
I do use chrome but it's relegated to be my 'second monitor, good at youtube / flash video' browser while I use FF for my main work.
FWIW I'm ... an extreme browser, likely extremely addicted to the web. Right now I've managed to close several hundred tabs this week and I'm down to about 200. I like to be as low as possible of course but right now I have 200 open, it's just how I browse.