{"id":346167,"date":"2020-04-03T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=346167"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:48:39","slug":"microsoft-edge-is-now-more-popular-than-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/346167-microsoft-edge-is-now-more-popular-than-firefox.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge is now more popular than Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Edge has overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the world’s second-most popular Internet browser, according to data from NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of 31 March 2020, Edge has reached 7.59% desktop browser market share, overtaking Firefox, which has a market share of 7.19%.<\/p>\n

Google Chrome remains the most popular browser for desktop users with a market share of 68.50% – far ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Edge’s increase in adoption could be attributed to it being the default browser for Windows 10, which many Windows 7 users have upgraded to due to the older operating system’s loss of official support this year.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has also launched a new version of Edge based on the Chromium web engine which is available on macOS as well as Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Below are the desktop browser market share rankings for March 2020, according to NetMarketShare.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Desktop Browser Share<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Chrome<\/td>\n68.50%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft Edge<\/td>\n7.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Firefox<\/td>\n7.19%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet Explorer<\/td>\n5.87%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/td>\n3.62%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QQ<\/td>\n2.41%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sogou Explorer<\/td>\n1.88%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera<\/td>\n1.14%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yandex<\/td>\n1.01%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UC Browser<\/td>\n0.42%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

New Chromium Edge features<\/h3>\n

Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed a number of new features<\/a><\/strong> that it was developing for its Chromium-based Edge desktop browser.<\/p>\n

These included a fix for the synchronisation and duplication of favourites, as well as for deleted favourites reappearing.<\/p>\n

Features which are planned to be released at a later stage include support to read PDF files aloud, the syncing of browsing history across devices, and the ability to prevent the auto-play of video and audio when the user opens a website.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also listed a host of features that it was considering adding, in addition to user-requested features that are not being planned.<\/p>\n

Microsoft previously indicated it also plans to add support for Linux operating systems to its Chromium Edge browser.<\/p>\n

The new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium was released on 15 January 2020 and is available for download from the Microsoft Edge website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now read: Using tech to fight the coronavirus in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Edge has overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the world’s second-most popular Internet browser, according to data from NetMarketShare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":335310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15725,981,123,17440],"class_list":["post-346167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-edge","tag-firefox","tag-microsoft","tag-netmarketshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}