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by AceJohnny2 1586 days ago
> I hope this helps increase Firefox's market share to make it more competitive to Chrome.

It's got a long way to go :(

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

As of posting, it's at 4.18%, similar to MS Edge, and basically in the bottom-rung of the also-rans. For comparison, the real contenders are Chrome at 63% and Safari at 19.84%.

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I'm always skeptical of these reports because they rely on tracking data collection that Firefox has been stricter and stricter about blocking. Inside Mozilla we had different numbers which didn't line up with the public marketshare figures. StatCounter in particular was infamous for under-reporting.
> Inside Mozilla we had different numbers which didn't line up with the public marketshare figures

How did they obtain those numbers?

How much higher would the internal numbers tend to be vs StatCounter?
> Inside Mozilla we had different numbers which didn't line up with the public marketshare figures

People inside Mozilla are more likely to use Firefox - big surprise?