Side effect from all the Windows VM's spun up by IT departments trying to lift and shift into the cloud ASAP due to COVID?
Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
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Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#22This doesn't seem to be the case? I visited NetMarketShare myself, and showed the market share stats for all browsers, excluding bots/spiders. It then shows Chrome > Safari > Firefox > IE11 > Edge. Pardon the large, ugly URL, but this is the filter I used: https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22... Edit: I see now that softpedia is talking about desktop browsers only. Even then, Edge is in fourth…
It's an aggregate of the months you're selecting (2019/04 - 2020/03). If you select just March you can see what they're seeing: https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...
Ah, thank you. I wish they included the URL, or shown the entire filter they used.
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#23This doesn't seem to reflect the stats I look at [1], which are - 1/3 people people using Chrome - 1/10 people using Safari - 1/20 people using Firefox - 1/50 people using Edge - 1/50 people using IE Firefox hasn't been #2 browser in a LOOOOOOOONG time 1: https://caniuse.com/usage-table
This article is about desktop browsers.
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#24Why is it so hard for a mammoth company like MS to maintain their own browser?! Is this because gaining market share with an alternate browser is simply impossible?
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#25According to Wikipedia’s traffic analytics, Firefox has 13% and Edge has 5% on desktop.
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#26Edge is packaged with Windows.
Chrome used Trojan horse tactics to get into the computers. Back in the 2010s when it just appeared, almost any popular freeware installer got sneaky "Also install Google Chrome and make it the default browser" checkbox.
So, underhanded tactics are extremely efficient. Therefore, I expect that Firefox will keep losing shares. Making a better browser won't help them.
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#27Why is it so hard for a mammoth company like MS to maintain their own browser?! Is this because gaining market share with an alternate browser is simply impossible?
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Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#28Why is it so hard for a mammoth company like MS to maintain their own browser?! Is this because gaining market share with an alternate browser is simply impossible?
These technologies are very deep, and the pool of developers with the skill, time, desire, and understanding to hack on these things is a very shallow pool to pull from. It seems like a lot of companies working on browsers are under-staffed so we seem to be experiencing more cross-company teamwork and collaboration than ever before - which is _great_ for standards and pushing us forward at a faster pace than before!
I would have thought most developers would absolutely jump at the chance to work on something as core as a browser! Having Chrome or Safari on your resume seems like it'd be golden.
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#29It's important to note that the article says that Edge is the 2nd most used desktop browser. Including mobile, Edge lags far behind Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Wikipedia’s analytics say it’s the 5. most used desktop browser:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
Re: Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser
#30I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it.
For general purpose Google account integration convinience grip is yet overweights their constant effort to ruin UI and extensions. Also Edge App Store still lacks uMatrix, but already has uBlock Origin.