40 Million Users Left Microsoft's Browsers in October - Firefox Is Back Up

Microsoft introduced a number of cracking features and improvements to its Edge browser. However, latest stats reveal that nearly 40 million users left the company'south browsers in October solitary. Combined user share of both the Cyberspace Explorer and Microsoft Edge was at 28.4% in Oct, a 2.3% drop from September'southward stats.

What may surprise some is the gain in the share of Mozilla Firefox. This time, Microsoft deserters haven't chosen to become for Google's Chrome, every bit Firefox has experienced a 2% increment in its user share. Chrome gained a 0.6% user share over September's numbers, managing to account for over 55% of all browsers in October.

Second-largest decline e'er for Microsoft's browsers

Over 330 million users have decided to say goodbye to the Redmond-made browsers this year, so far. Throughout the year, the user share of Microsoft's browsers continued to autumn. Later the all-fourth dimension high at 800 million users in December 2022, we are now looking at an best low of only about 466 meg users in October, down from September's 506 million users.

These stats come from Cyberspace Applications, confirming that the drop in the combined user share of IE and Border in October is the second-largest reject ever for Microsoft's browsers, backside May's two.7% drib. The data in terms of millions has been calculated past the folks at ComputerWorld, who have used the stats for browser and cantankerous-referenced it with the Windows user share.

In the concurrently, Firefox continues to experience big increases in its user share. "Oct's was the largest single-calendar month boost to Firefox'south user share," CW reported. The browser has managed to make up for a yr's losses in just virtually ii months.

Microsoft has promised more improvements to its Edge browser with the Windows x Creators Update. Whether these upcoming refinements will assist the company gain some lost share or not, we will take to wait until Spring 2022.