{"id":40693,"date":"2020-04-03T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=4138a339c3d1617843d37681a566f613"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:39:54","slug":"microsofts-edge-now-more-popular-than-firefox-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsofts-edge-now-more-popular-than-firefox-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Edge now more popular than Firefox for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span>
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3 Apr, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200b<\/span>Fundamental changes to the\u00a0Edge\u00a0platform have\u00a0seen Microsoft\u2019s flagship browser swell in popularity to the extent it\u2019s overtaken Mozilla\u2019s Firefox as the second most widely-used browser.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Edge crept up from a market share of 7.38% in February to 7.59% during March 2020, versus a slightly reduced 7.19% share for Firefox against 7.57% the previous month, according to NetMarketShare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A steady rise in popularity for Microsoft Edge<\/a>\u00a0against the steady fall of Firefox\u2019s market share over the last couple of years has seen a crossover\u00a0moment occur for the first time.<\/p>\n

The milestone follows a period of change for Edge,\u00a0that comes pre-packaged with its Windows operating systems. Among these changes are a reangling towards business users<\/a>, and an overhaul of its codebase to the extent it\u2019s now based on the open source Chromium browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another feature, known as Collections, allows workers in procurement to drag and drop items from search results into a list that can be shared with others, complete with image and metadata for all items.<\/p>\n

The Chromium-powered Edge has also seen a brand redesign to distinguish itself from the previous iteration of Edge, which has languished for years, as well as Internet Explorer<\/a>, which has sustained an organic month-by-month decline.<\/p>\n

Although Chrome enjoys a near-monopolistic market share of desktop browsers, often hitting between 60% and 70% in market share over the last few years, the tussle for second has been closely fought<\/a> between Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n

Firefox has, itself, undergone a series of key changes focused almost exclusively on protecting user privacy<\/a>. The most recent step forward in its development, which typifies this trend, involves the launch of a paid-for virtual private network (VPN)<\/a> that encrypts users\u2019 connections across apps and devices.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Mozilla, these efforts haven\u2019t paid off in the way the developer\u00a0may have hoped, given its market share has continued to fall over time, from 9.27% in March 2019, for example, to just above 7% last month. Comparatively, Edge held just 5.2% market share the same time last year.<\/p>\n

The rise of Microsoft Edge has also coincided with the fall of Internet Explorer<\/a>, which held a market share above 12% during 2018. This is largely due to the fact many businesses still rely on the web browser to run business-critical applications.<\/p>\n

The fact the new Edge is powered by Chromium<\/a> is also sure to attract a swathe of users simply curious as to how it compares against previous iterations, and whether this cleaner codebase leads to smarter functionality. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n

3 Apr, 2020 <\/p>\n

\u200bFundamental changes to the\u00a0Edge\u00a0platform have\u00a0seen Microsoft\u2019s flagship browser swell in popularity to the extent it\u2019s overtaken Mozilla\u2019s Firefox as the second most widely-used browser.
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