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By one measure, Edge has 5% market share, twice that of Firefox. On Desktop it’s 13%, which is second place. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/d
by skybrian 1y ago
By one measure, Edge has 5% market share, twice that of Firefox.
On Desktop it’s 13%, which is second place.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
- fc417fc802 1y agoDoes that chart differentiate between before and after edge internals became chromium though?
- skybrian 1y agoDoes it matter? It seems like distribution is more important than the internals.
- fc417fc802 1y agoWhen people say that Google killed the Edge browser they generally mean that MS gave up on maintaining their own browser engine and the world moved that much closer to a web monoculture. To put this in historical perspective, a reskinned IE would not have been a meaningful or useful competitor to IE.
- skybrian 1y agoI don’t think it’s a meaningful comparison because Microsoft has the resources to fork Chromium if they need to. But since it works pretty well, there’s little incentive to do that. It would be like Electron forking V8 for no reason.
- const_cast 1y agoCorporate is a huge, huge part of this. Lots of people working just use whatever browser is preloaded. In addition, you can't even download another browser in a lot of environments.