Statcounter does not say that. This post is straight up misinformation.
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Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
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Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
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Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
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Linux (desktop): 4.45%
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux.
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Is OP adding the Android share to Linux? That would certainly do it.
- Android (all platforms): 45.19%
Only makes sense if you know their definition of 'Linux' though.
True, that could be it.
Although then the "Wild isn't it" statement really isn't wild at all - Android is by far and away the most popular OS, not far off double Windows. Of course if you lump that in with Linux, Linux would be more popular than Firefox.
4.45 > 2.74
You're comparing apples and oranges...
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Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
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Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
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Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
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Linux (desktop): 4.45%
You've chosen to compare Firefox's share from all platforms to Linux's share only on desktop. I don't know whether this was deliberate misinformation-pushing, or an innocent brainfart/inability to parse data, but that's not how data is compared.
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux, depending on the platform you use for comparison.
No matter how you cut it, Firefox is more popular. It's more popular across all platforms as a whole, and it's also more popular on desktop.
And 4.45% of a far smaller number is not greater than 2.74% of a much much larger number.
On a random note, I once talked about Firefox with a friend, and he texted me a few weeks later about trying it. More successful than my Linux spreading, although part of it was he used a Surface and having gone through the pain on my Surface Go myself, I wasn’t sure I could impart that suffering to someone else.
Firefox is suffering if one use M365 online daily...
Only Google workspace great on Firefox ootb..
I'd believe it. I've had hundreds of Linux servers that don't have any desktop Gui at all deployed on them.
Linux desktop users make up an absolutely tiny fraction of Linux installs.
I know the Linux community doesn't want to know, but Firefox is not as belowed as you might think.
But the majority of distros provides it as a default choice. FF for Linux is like Edge for Windows.
So just to install chrome?
Edit: I got down voted for saying people use edge for downloading Chrome. A lot of edge lovers here, who would have known?
A lot of edge lovers here
I guess many here don't particularly like Chrome, just like they don't like Edge.
I.e. using a browser that spies on you to download another browser that spies on you doesn't seem like a great deal to me.
Both being based on Chromium there isn't even any performance difference between them. Insert "they are the same picture"-meme.
It was a joke...
Geez. Linux community is extremely uptight and extremely triggered by any challenge, even whimsical. Relax guys. But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.
I got the first part about Chrome as a joke, but after I read the edit I wasn't sure anymore.
But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.
Why do you think that? I'm happy with Firefox. It let's me customize the tabs bar through userConfig.css to exclusively use tree style tabs and supports uBlock. That's all I really need from a browser, but, sadly, all other browser only support basic vertical tabs.
They are just trolling
In which country? For me the global stats and my country's (NL) stats show otherwise.
From a very quick glance at Statcounter, I can only see India where OP's statement is true, with Linux having an extremely high desktop market share there relative to other markets.