Most Firefox Users Run Windows 10 (And They Don’t Care About Microsoft Edge)

[nir]

Mozilla says Windows 10 is now the top OS for its users

Windows 10 is now the operating system of choice for most Mozilla Firefox users, according to a new set of statistics provided by the company.

By the looks of things, Windows 10 managed to overtake Windows 7 in late October to become the leading desktop operating system for users of Mozilla’s browser.

Right now, Windows 10 is topping the charts with 40.696% share in the Firefox userbase, followed pretty closely by Windows 7 with 40.401%. Windows 8.1 is third and very far behind with 7.285%.

Why not using Microsoft Edge?

These stats are not at all surprising and they, in fact, reveal something that Microsoft’s isn’t going to like.

First of all, these numbers show that Windows 10 is indeed growing in terms of adoption worldwide, and overtaking Windows 7 in all charts is the best thing that could happen now. Windows 7 is projected to reach the end of support in January 2020 and Microsoft needs Windows 10 to be installed on as many PCs as possible in the meantime.

But on the other hand, the data also shows that many users don’t even care about Microsoft Edge. More than 40 percent of the Firefox users, which we already know are a lot of them out there, have decided to ignore Microsoft’s native browser and switch to a third party.

Microsoft has insisted for users to try out Edge browser, but judging from all the statistics released lately, nothing has worked. In fact, Microsoft Edge currently has a market share of around 4 percent, while Google Chrome, which continues to be the leading browser worldwide, runs on more than 65 percent of the desktop computers across the world.

In the meantime, Microsoft isn’t really in a rush to deliver updates for Microsoft Edge, so new improvements land alongside Windows 10 feature updates.

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[luisam]

On 11/6/2018 at 8:20 AM, nir said:

Windows 10 is now the operating system of choice for most Mozilla Firefox users,

 

Hoooo... what about Google Chrome, the REAL choice to Edge! A very incorrect title; in context of the article it actually makes clear that " Google Chrome, which continues to be the leading browser worldwide, runs on more than 65 percent of the desktop computers across the world". Actually, I have an use BOTH. Es for EDGE, thanks for for being there...

[Karlston]

Windows 10 might be the most popular OS for Firefox users, but only by a tiny amount and almost 60% of Firefox users still do not use Windows 10.

 

For those of us who like to customise our browser, Firefox and its forks are still the only choice, though incredibly, Mozilla seems hell-bent on changing that.

 

Edge? Should have been taken out the back with Windows 10 mobile and dispatched in the same fashion.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, Karlston said:

Windows 10 might be the most popular OS for Firefox users, but only by a tiny amount and almost 60% of Firefox users still do not use Windows 10.

 

64.73 %  of desktop users according to  netmarketshare  OS didn't  come With Edge at all ..  Only reason Google rules is because of businesses adopted it ..  They rather pay for  proprietary software Like Windows  or Millions of dollars  for Enterprise Linux ... But what good is a browser that's not supported across everything ..  Windows centric  blogs still post the news like it's the 1990s when Microsoft  held a browser monopoly but  the EU broke that up  many years ago and made people aware they had a choice.  

I don't understand the 1st post as far as i know there is no analytics that  provide browser statistics on a OS level .They provide Mobile and Desktop and overall , World Wide  or by country  and the OP  don't provide a source for there findings. 

 

As far Firefox vs Microsoft .. Microsoft have more users by a hair  because they have 2 browsers IE and Edge all versions  across all desktops = 10.66%  all versions Firefox across all Desktops = 10.14% according to statcounter witch counts all browser versions as one.  It's not Fair to separate IE and Edge like they do because there based on the same code  and are Microsoft  in the marketshare  Warerfox and Palemoon  are counted as Firefox  ..

[7even]

Most people had already share they experiences with computer in the name of telemetry. Why they should share they browsing habits too?

[knowledge-Spammer]

 

 

[steven36]

On 11/8/2018 at 1:00 AM, 7even said:

Most people had already share they experiences with computer in the name of telemetry. Why they should share they browsing habits too?

I figured  out what Edge  is good for  Netflix 4k video,  on Netflix it only plays if you have a new intel i7 and use windows 10 as well as Edge. but you  can just use the Windows 10 Netflix app instead on Windows 10 for 4k .Netflix   has always been up Microsoft's butt to watch 1080p Netflix you must have at lest have  IE 11  .. There was and  extension netflix-1080p  that would let  you watch  1080p in Chrome  but Netflix   blocked  it  a few days ago . This would let you watch it in Linux or Mac or Windows in Chrome based browsers in 1080p.  All other browsers only can play 720p unless  the dev figures out how to fix it .   For me this is just another reason to not pay for legit streaming services that use  DRM  and just download and stream pirated  sources .

[Snuffy1942]

I am a Windows 10 user, I am a FireFox user and No I do not use EDGE. infact I disable Edge every time MS updates and restores it...

so never any issue.