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What rapidly declining market share? Did you even open the wikipedia page you're referring to? There are no graphs over the last few months, and if you look at
by bilkow 6y ago
What rapidly declining market share? Did you even open the wikipedia page you're referring to? There are no graphs over the last few months, and if you look at the sources[0][1][2], it looks like their market share declined BEFORE the layoff (from January to August 2020). After the layoff, it seems pretty stable.
As a reference, I'm going to post the values here:
Source: Jan 2020 - Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
netmarketshare: 3.61% - 3.00% - 2.98%
wikimedia analytics: 5.2% - 4.6% - 4.7%
statcounter: 4.7% - 4.09% - 3.77%
Also I'm actually pretty satisfied with Firefox.
[0] https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Custom%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222020-01%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222020-12%22%2C%22hiddenSeries%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22plotKeys%22%3A%5B%7B%22browser%22%3A%22Firefox%22%7D%5D%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...
[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-browser https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... (change date range to Jan 1 2020 - Jan 21 2021, remove other browsers)
[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-202001-202012 https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2020... (remove other browsers)
- jonny383 6y agoYou have to be joking right? You'd have to be blind to not see the rapid decline in Firefox marketshare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/media/File%3AStatCounter-browser-ww-yearly-2009-2020_(updated_until_November).png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...
- bilkow 6y agoFirst, (as I understood) you indicated that the market share decline and the layoffs were somehow related. Given that the graph started in 2009, 1 year after Chrome was first released and only the last datapoint is after the date, I don't think they're related at all. We all know that Chrome captured the IE/Firefox market share in the whole last decade and that's what the graph's showing. Second, your concept of rapid decline clearly differs from mine. That is an eleven year decline and I don't think it's "rapid" at all for a browser.