Microsoft Browsers Can’t Keep Up with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

[Batu69]

Windows 10’s new browser makes almost no difference

   Google Chrome keeps leading the browser world these days

 

Microsoft introduced Edge browser in Windows 10 with much fanfare, hoping that this way the company can become more relevant in the browser business and have a strong competitor against the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

And while adoption figures show that Microsoft Edge is on the rise, Internet Explorer is collapsing, as it was already abandoned by the Redmond-based software giant itself and is no longer receiving new features, but only security patches.

Market share data provided by StatCounter for the past three months shows that Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge have both declined in the last few months, giving Mozilla Firefox the opportunity to take the second spot worldwide after Google Chrome.

Nobody can compete against Google Chrome

Internet Explorer and Edge dropped from 16.6 percent in February to 15.5 percent in April while Mozilla Firefox declined from 16.1 percent in the second month of the year (when it was still the third most used browser worldwide) to 15.6 percent last month, thus taking over Microsoft’s place.

As far as Google Chrome is concerned, this browser’s performance is exactly opposite. It started February with a smaller market share - 59 percent - and then improved it every single month to eventually reach 60.5 percent. This means that more than 1 in 2 PCs right now are using Google Chrome, as compared to both Firefox and Internet Explorer, which are very far behind.

Microsoft has high hopes for Edge browser, and this is one of the reasons the app is scheduled to receive a major update in the summer, when the company releases the Anniversary Update.

Microsoft going after Google Chrome

All improvements that Edge will get with this Windows 10 update are supposed to make the browser a stronger rival to Google Chrome.

Microsoft, for instance, is working to implement support for extensions designed for Google Chrome, and they should work in the Windows 10 browser with little to no modifications. Several big developers have already announced their plans to port extensions to Edge browser, and Microsoft is optimistic that this plan could succeed.

In the meantime, however, Firefox is also losing share mostly because of the recent updates that make it more of a resource hog, not only on Windows but also on Mac OS X. Although it continues to experience a great success in the software community, Firefox has clearly lost the battle with Google Chrome, which for the moment gains more and more users every new day.

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[steven36]

Why do they bother to make a report using just StatCounter .? 

StatCounter ,  Net Market Share ,  W3Counter and  User Agent Breakdowns Wikimedia Foundation  all have different results  so using just one of these sites and not averaging it all out  is not really accurate and is not really helpful  i can look at StatCounter for myself  do they think were fools? Because when i check  i look at all of them.

 

For April 2016 Wikimedia reports

 

Chrome all desktop browsers  25%

Mobile Safari 16%

Chrome Mobile  15%

Other  All browsers not listed  11%

IE All Desktop browsers 10%

Firefox All desktop browsers 8.7 %

Safari All desktop browsers 3.1 %

Android 2.8%

Edge All desktop browsers 1.4%

Opera All desktop browsers 1.1%

Opera Mini 0.99%

IE Mobile 0.79%

UC browser 0.45 %

Yandex Browser 0.40%

 

this site is a interesting site User Agent Breakdowns Wikimedia Foundation

https://browser-reports.wmflabs.org/#all-sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view

 

this looks more accurate but still not 100% because user agents can easy be fooled  :)

 

 

[heyyahblah]

Wasting time on browsers instead of fixing the O/S and getting rid of all the kinks and bugs. Go to hell Microsoft, you've been done for times. Any other browser out there is superior to IE & EDGE. And the W10 fanboiis that act like EDGE is superior drives me crazy. May they die of gonorrhea and rot in hell!! (Laces Out)

 

Thus I present to you Microsoft for IE & EDGE:

 

[D1v1n3D]

If they put Ublock in Edge and reduce the Memory Usage and CPU load  and higher privacy and security I may use it but until then I will be using Chrome for daily use just because it's a really complete browser and I will use Epic for security and privacy.

 

DEATH TO FLASH FOR CHROME USERS THANK GOD!!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-to-block-flash-content,31807.html

[pc71520]

 

[vibranium]

Opera in Africa is surprising.

[heyyahblah]

2 hours ago, vibranium said:

Opera in Africa is surprising.

 

No kidding, I was wondering the same thing. I think the graph for Chrome is a little far fetched though. I know a lot of people that prefer Firefox over chrome because of the ability to customize your browsing experience, with addons to how your browser even looks. With Chrome you are stuck with that same interface that you cannot even modify which sucks for me. I like to customize my browser and the locations of my buttons/tabs how I see fit. Not what I'm told to use. 

 

Even all this talk about resources and etc, I have no idea. I use an M.2 SSD, i5 6600k and 16GB of ram, and Waterfox x64. No speed issues for me here when using FF.

 

[pc71520]

The above graph includes not just Desktop browsers,

but also browsers used in Cell-phones, Tablets etc.

 

When it comes to browsers used exclusively on Desktops, the Map changes as follows: