Google Chrome has captured more than 67% of the world hunt browser market, making it the ascendant leader worldwide. Safari is No. 2 pinch astir 18%, Microsoft Edge has 5.2%, and past location is Firefox pinch 2.54%.
Firefox, a free, open-source web browser, doesn't waste user data to advertisers. It's praised for its tracker-blocking but tin beryllium slower than Chrome. And its numbers are dropping — according to Firefox data, the browser has mislaid astir 50 cardinal monthly progressive users since March 2020.
However, connected Thursday, the societal media squad fto everyone cognize it's still present and is tuned into the zeitgeist. The institution posted connected billionaire Mark Zuckerberg's Threads app to punctual everyone that it has thing different browsers don't — it isn't backed by a billionaire.
"'You're truthful funny' thanks, we're the only awesome browser not backed by a billionaire," the station reads. It has garnered much than 2,800 comments truthful far.
"This is each I request to cognize to make [it] my default," 1 personification wrote.
"Marketing squad deserves a raise," different added.
Still, different users were speedy to statement that the institution has a ample woody pinch Google that is beautiful overmuch their full equilibrium sheet, which makes their now-viral station a small convoluted.
Firefox's longstanding, $500 million-plus deal pinch Google (queries connected Firefox are routed to Google's hunt engine), appears to beryllium keeping the institution afloat. The Firefox web browser is made by Mozilla, a non-profit tech institution that began successful the 1990s to situation Microsoft's then-market-ruling Internet Explorer web browser. According to the Mozilla Foundation's 2021-2022 financial connection (the astir caller 1 published), $510 cardinal retired of its $593 cardinal successful gross is from Google, per Fortune.
Reddit users and tech bloggers are worried that it could beryllium the extremity for the beloved, albeit not-so-widely-used browser. Several caller posts mention the decline successful marketplace stock (Firefox was complete 3% successful January 2024) and its low use connected smartphones.
"For so, truthful galore years now I've been informing everyone astir conscionable really vulnerable the early of Firefox was, and each 1 of my worries and predictions person go reality," 1 blogger writes connected OSNews.
Further adding to the issue, successful August, a judge ruled that "Google is simply a monopolist," which whitethorn put Mozilla's statement pinch Google successful jeopardy.
"We powerfully impulse the Court to see remedies that amended hunt title without harming independent browsers and browser engines," a Mozilla spokesperson told PCMag successful November.
Here's a floor plan of marketplace stock per web browser:
Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share
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