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Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the Kentucky-Derby dept.

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.

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  1. Misleading Summary Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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 :/.

  2. Begin rant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here we are in 2016 and it is STILL impossible for me to play fullscreen video on ANY machine running linux, no matter how fast or in what player - including in firefox's html5 player - without awful video tearing due to fundamental architectural defects that x.org refuses to fix (because who cares about smooth video playback, amirite?)

    Getting a little more on topic - And yet here we are in 2016 and Firefox on Linux seems more likely to get trapped in Javascript loops that burn 100% CPU and cause it to run at slideshow speeds with every new version. I'm not sure whether to be happy or embarrassed that it only wastes 100% CPU on my quad-core machine... /end rant //Time to stfu and gbtw...