Firefox tops Microsoft's browser in market share

I thought that this had happened a while ago, but apparently I was thinking of Chrome, which still holds 60% of the browser market share. IE & Edge, together, held the #2 spot, though, until five minutes ago:

Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for the first time across the globe.

Mozilla’s Firefox grabbed 15.6 percent of worldwide desktop browser usage in April, according to the latest numbers from Web analytics outfit StatCounter.

However, neither browser threatens the market leader—Google’s Chrome continues to command two thirds of the market.

StatCounter, which analysed data from three million websites, found that Firefox’s worldwide desktop browser usage last month was 0.1 percent ahead of the combined share of Internet Explorer and Edge at 15.5 percent.

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“Microsoft might have expected a boost to its overall browser share as the result of the launch of the Windows 10 with Edge but it hasn’t happened to date,” said StatCounter chief Aodhan Cullen.

This probably has very little to do with the quality or features of Edge, which, by all accounts, is essentially as good as Chrome or Firefox. But Edge isn't a better browser than Chrome or Firefox, and apparently it's not shiny enough to sell the new OS, because even with since Microsoft having stopped supporting IE, and everybody now having to switch their browsers, the trend so far is one of people switching to Edge's competitors, rather than switching to Windows 10.

GG, Microsoft. GG.