Why Google’s legal troubles could hasten Firefox’s slide into irrelevance [Video]

Firefox has never been the most popular web browser. At its peak, in 2010, Firefox was used by 34.1% of the market. Today, the US federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP), with its running count of the last 90 days of US government website visits, the most reliable web browser survey, shows Firefox with a mere 2.8%. 

That’s not Firefox’s all-time low, but it’s still miserable. Chrome, as you might guess, is the leader with 54.5%, followed by Safari, thanks to iPhones, with 24%, and Edge with 14.2%. Only Internet Explorer — yes, some people are still running it — of the well-known browsers has a smaller number of users, with 1.7%.

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