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Re:Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Appl... by dariosalvi78 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:23AM (#34705939)
I don't know in which world you live, but in the world I live common people (that is, non computer nerds) all had Windows and all used Internet Explorer. A few had Firefox or Opera or MacOS, but they were a little minority.

Then came Chrome.

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Re:Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Appl... by dontlaugh on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:02AM (#34706204)
It definitely varied a great deal depending on where you were. There were entire countries with Firefox at 70-80% before Chrome got pushed, though.
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Re:Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Appl... by dariosalvi78 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:18AM (#34708311)
there's a cool animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wWdmfOibY

Yes, Firefox usage peaked at about 20%: surely not negligible (didn't know anybody myself using it !). As for geographical distribution, I could only find this: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009... The data goes back up to 2009, which was quite a peak period for FF...

Sure FF has played an important role in the browsers war, but it hardly broke the monopoly, or at least it did not do it alone (Safari and Opera started to gain a significative share at the same time).

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Re:Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Appl... by jeroen on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:51AM (#34706481)
IE usage shrank from 90% to around 60% before Chrome even existed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Browser_...

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Re:Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Appl... by oblio on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:53AM (#34721763)
You can check a ton of stat sites... Firefox was around 30-40% <<global>> market share and growing fast, it was taking over from Internet Explorer.

Firefox was growing constantly before Chrome started taking over.

Those people using Firefox weren't a small minority, and they weren't techies only.

You're trying to rewrite history from your small bubble.

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