Rich
2017-11-24 18:34:32 UTC
<URL:https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/mozilla-market-share/>
Quoting from the URL above:
When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and
optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite.
Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be the best web
browser, since it was faster, more secure, offered tabbed browsing and
was more customizable through extensions than Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. When Chrome was introduced in 2008, it took many of Firefox's
best ideas and improved on them. Since 2010, Chrome has eaten away at
Firefox's market share, relegating Firefox to a tiny niche of free
software enthusiasts and tinkerers who like the customization of its XUL
extensions.
According to StatCounter, Firefox's market share of web browsers has
fallen from 31.8% in December 2009 to just 6.1% today. Firefox can take
comfort in the fact that it is now virtually tied with its former
arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer and its variants. All of Microsoft's
browsers only account for 6.2% of current web browsing according to
StatCounter. Microsoft has largely been replaced by Google, whose web
browsers now controls 56.5% of the market. Even worse, is the fact that
the WebKit engine used by Google now represents over 83% of web
browsing, so web sites are increasingly focusing on compatibility with
just one web engine. While Google and Apple are more supportive of W3C
and open standards than Microsoft was in the late 90s, the web is
increasingly being monopolized by one web engine and two companies,
whose business models are not always based on the best interests of
users or their rights.
...
Quoting from the URL above:
When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and
optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite.
Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be the best web
browser, since it was faster, more secure, offered tabbed browsing and
was more customizable through extensions than Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. When Chrome was introduced in 2008, it took many of Firefox's
best ideas and improved on them. Since 2010, Chrome has eaten away at
Firefox's market share, relegating Firefox to a tiny niche of free
software enthusiasts and tinkerers who like the customization of its XUL
extensions.
According to StatCounter, Firefox's market share of web browsers has
fallen from 31.8% in December 2009 to just 6.1% today. Firefox can take
comfort in the fact that it is now virtually tied with its former
arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer and its variants. All of Microsoft's
browsers only account for 6.2% of current web browsing according to
StatCounter. Microsoft has largely been replaced by Google, whose web
browsers now controls 56.5% of the market. Even worse, is the fact that
the WebKit engine used by Google now represents over 83% of web
browsing, so web sites are increasingly focusing on compatibility with
just one web engine. While Google and Apple are more supportive of W3C
and open standards than Microsoft was in the late 90s, the web is
increasingly being monopolized by one web engine and two companies,
whose business models are not always based on the best interests of
users or their rights.
...