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> Firefox has never even held 10% browser share

That's very inaccurate. Firefox held a ~30% market share way back in ancient times (~2009), which decreased to around ~10% through to ~2018.

The substantial drop from ~10% to it's current position only happened in the last few years.

Animation of the browser market share over time, if that helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es9DNe0l0Qo



At the time, it was a common talking point that Firefox never got beyond 25% market share. I’m not sure why statcounter has questionable data for that period.

Here’s a Mozilla blog post from 2009 celebrating hitting 25%:

https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/2009/11/09/firefox-hits-25-...

That was the highest point.


Thanks for the correction. Regardless, the mobile-focused web landscape today is a very different one than 2009.

Also those numbers seem to be highly inflated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers




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