Anyone else who worries about Firefox's market share? At which point does it become too difficult for Mozilla to fund the research and development of Firefox?
To be honest, the value proposition with Edge is quite compelling for my use cases. #1, I get a Chromium-based browser; #2) I get a browser that is supported by a big player who can stand on their own two feet; and #3) I get rid of all of the Google tracking that Chrome has built-in.<p>It does work, I have noticed my experience on Google properties (Android devices included) becoming slowly de-personalized over time. This was the desired effect, and it has worked (at least on the surface) as intended. Now, please understand that my web experience is still largely shaped by Google, just not in the same way.
I'm sure if Firefox was rammed down people's throats the way Microsoft promoted Edge on W10 updates, then it would have a much higher ranking.
<p><pre><code> Date Chrome Safari Firefox Edge Edge Legacy
2020-03 68.11 8.93 9.25 0.57 4.56
2020-04 67.15 9.7 9.18 1.01 4.86
2020-05 68.33 9.4 8.91 1.24 4.41
2020-06 69.42 8.74 8.48 2.37 3.45
2020-07 69.55 8.36 8.61 4.12 1.93
2020-08 69.87 8.27 8.34 5.02 1.3
2020-09 69.71 8.73 8.15 5.54 0.94
2020-10 70.33 8.87 7.69 5.83 0.77
2020-11 67.71 9.83 7.95 6.82 0.69
2020-12 65.96 10.43 8.39 7.43 0.57
2021-01 66.59 10.38 8.1 7.81 0.52
2021-02 66.47 10.27 8.17 8.01 0.48
2021-03 67.14 10.11 7.95 8.03 0.44
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Note that this is absolutely bullshit. If you combine Edge and Edge legacy into one product, we see less than a factor of 2.<p>Edit: additionally note the conspicuous absence of internet explorer from this list which has been likewise EOLed. The total market share held by Chrome Safari and Firefox over this time has remained constant, and they had to get those 4% from somewhere, my guess is IE.
I switch from Chrome to Edge and I have never come back. I even use Edge in my macOS for data sync. However, I face some heating problems on my Android device when using Edge.
Hope that there will no "trick" from Google with Edge Chromium like Edge Legacy.
If your are going for a Chromium based browser I think that Microsoft Edge is one of the better ones. You can configure it to be somewhat minimal and does not force login you to some service like Chrome. Edge can also switch between profiles, like private and work, within the same browser session.<p>They are working a Linux port<p><a href="https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download</a><p>Unfortunate no AppImage, Flatpak or Snap.
Go woke, go broke Mozilla. You could have concentrated on Firefox being the most secure and privacy-focused browser, but instead you spent energy on "progressive changes".<p>You're first mistake was getting rid of Brendan Eich.<p>Then you started removing useful features in Firefox (see RSS support, etc).<p>I've moved on from Firefox now, but there's still a part of me that hopes you see the light and change your focus.
I dumped Chrome in favor of Edge on Windows, it’s just that much better in my opinion. Especially with the new vertical tabs feature.<p>On Mac I use Safari, with Edge as my Blink test browser. As far as I can tell it does not use Keystone for updates (<a href="https://chromeisbad.com" rel="nofollow">https://chromeisbad.com</a>)
Vertical tabs, tab groupings, and collections are some of the reasons I switched from Opera. I do miss the pinnable Opera side dock for social media, and advanced shortcut customizations.
The hidden killer feature of edge is IE compatibility mode. This is what allowed our organization to finally move on from IE to a chromium based browser. Internally we just maintain a list for pages that require IE compatibility mode and no one notices at all. Prior to this IE was a required browser on all corporate machines and it was hell.
There is certainly a marketing power in forcing the users of Windows 10 to interact with your browser. I'm not sure why there isn't more skepticism about the claim that edge is "built into" Windows 10. Not even the superuser stackexchange is willing to engage with the idea of fully removing it from the operating system at this point.
Obviously this is on the desktop. If you want a presence on the desktop, you have to own the OS like Windows, macOS and Chrome, unless regulators force a choice.
Is it possible that Firefox market shares are skewed because of the users disabling telemetry/enabling privacy features?<p>How to even account for that?