Jon Russell at TechCrunch reports that Firefox overtakes Microsoft’s IE and Edge browsers, but Chrome continues to dominate.
Microsoft may have built a new web browser that is befitting of today’s Internet, but the decision to develop Edge and deprioritize Internet Explorer might be benefitting its rivals. That’s according to a new report today from StatCounter, one of the most notable Internet tracking firms, which claims Mozilla’s Firefox browser has overtaken Edge and Internet Explorer on marketshare for the first time.
StatCounter, which takes its data from three million websites which received an estimated 15 billion page views per month, said that, as of April, Firefox represented 15.6 percent of its desktop web traffic globally, fractionally ahead of Internet Explorer and Edge’s cumulative reach of 15.5 percent.
All three are well behind Google Chrome, which has more than one billion users across all platforms and accounts for over 60 percent of StatCounter’s traffic, but it’s notable that Firefox had trailed the Microsoft browsers in February and March, according to StatCounter’s data. Apple’s Safari and soon-to-be-China-owned Opera are among the also-rans make up the rest of the field.
Please note that StatCounter's data is for desktops only.
The complete article, including graphs to make the numbers more understandable, is located at techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/firefox-overtakes-microsofts-ie-and-edge-browsers-but-chrome-continues-to-dominate/
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