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Firefox has lost over 20 million users in 2 years. Jan 3 2021 210,085,100 Jan 1 2023 193,199,300 Dec 17 2023 185,599,100
by sharps1 3y ago
Firefox has lost over 20 million users in 2 years.
Jan 3 2021 210,085,100
Jan 1 2023 193,199,300
Dec 17 2023 185,599,100
- woodruffw 3y agoI can read. The point is that the number doesn't translate: 7.5 million lost users over 2023 doesn't correspond to a 0.75% decline in global browser presence. 7.5 million is a tiny fraction of that.
- jeroenhd 3y agoIt does if the global number of active browsers increased. The more people get connected to the internet, and the more of them use Chrome or Edge, the smaller Firefox' market share will be if their user numbers stay about equal.
- mvdtnz 3y ago7.5M out of 193M is 0.39%, so it's off by about a half. Hardly a "tiny fraction". Presumably the growth in internet users in the period would increase the relative decline in market share, too.
- lupusreal 3y ago3.9%
- Liquid_Fire 3y agoYou're comparing apples to oranges. The 0.75% decline from the OP is of market share across all browsers. The figure here is a 3.9% (not 0.39%) decline in Firefox users only. This would translate to 3.9% of 3.79% = about 0.14% of market share. It's not about half but more than 5x less.
- ksec 3y agoWorth pointing out Firefox had 310 Million user in 2017. That is a lost of 100 Million user in from 2017 to 2021.