edge With Windows 10 Struggling, Microsoft Edge Barely Moves the Needle Too

[WALLONN7]

Edge browser still well behind rivals Chrome and Firefox

 

 

Windows 10 is growing at a slower pace than anyone expected, and as a direct consequence, Microsoft Edge, which is the new default browser in the operating system, is also having a hard time competing against rivals Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

NetMarketShare data for the month of February shows that Edge barely moved the needle last month, while its rivals improved their shares in a more substantial manner.

Google Chrome is the world’s number one PC browser with a share of 58.53 percent, so nearly 6 out of 10 computers are running this particular browser at the moment. This is undoubtedly impressive, especially because Chrome is not the default browser on Windows, which is the dominating operating system on the desktop.

On the other hand, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dropped to 19.17 percent, and this is a drop that was more or less expected, especially because the browser is no longer actively improved. Internet Explorer isn’t getting any new features, but only security patches and fixes, with Microsoft focusing entirely on Edge in Windows 10.

Microsoft Edge performance

The third browser in the charts is Mozilla’s Firefox, which is now running on 11.68 percent of the PCs out there, while Microsoft Edge has approximately half of this share despite Redmond’s rather aggressive push for everyone to switch to Windows 10.

Edge is running on 5.55 percent of the PCs, up from 5.48 percent the month before, which shows that its adoption is primarily impacted by the limited availability in Windows 10.

Microsoft isn’t planning to release Edge browser on a different platform, with the company saying before the launch of Windows 10 that it first wanted to get the app right on its own operating system and then look beyond this possibility.

Microsoft Edge, however, is getting a major pack of improvements in the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update due in April, including new tab options, such as website previews, plus new extensions that are already available for insiders.

 

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[Ramouz]

Edge has many issues. The list is growing weird enough.

I just know that these days when I try to use it for some webpages, they're not opening or they warn me that we need to enable Cookies. I verified and cookies is enabled in Edge settings. Webpage doesn't let me log in because of that. Works great in Chrome.

 

Another major issue, Edge won't download anything! That's just so weird. It used to work a few months ago.

I click the download button in multiple websites, it doesn't do anything. I open up Chrome, it works fine.

 

Windows 10 also is bugging out again. Sure bugs have been fixed but there are other issues and I can't really describe them. Random slowdowns, sometimes it doesn't restart normally, nor shut down normally. I just don't trust this Windows 10 anymore.. Settings aren't streamlined. I miss when they ONLY used control panel, even though some Settings in Settings look nicer (not everything). I think Microsoft is destroying their own reputation, just like their did with Lumia phones (sigh....).

I considered moving to Linux but no, some steam games don't work there and not all Adobe software works there and I don't want to dual boot. Mac may work since I can virtual Windows, but I prefer my Alienware laptop over a Mac pro laptop.