t in 2020, the most popular web browser is Google Chrome, with 49.3 percent of the recorded share of visits. This is a far cry from IE's once dominant share of 96 percent back in the infancy of the web,..Apple's Safari browser comes in a distant second with 31.6 percent....29.5 percent of smartphones are Apple devices, compared to 23 percent Android devices. So most of the Safari use actually comes from phones, not PCs. The big surprise is the third place winner. Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that Microsoft has been urging people to switch to Edge, IE is still the third most widely used browser, capturing 5.7 percent of the market...Edge loses out to IE, capturing only 4.2 percent of the market, and bringing up the rear is Firefox, with a mere 3.6 percent. The remaining 11.3 percent of the market share is divided up between a constellation of tiny, seldom used browsers that nonetheless have niche followings
Besides the (detrimental in many ways) massive switch from desktops to mobile devices for Internet searching, the decline of Firefox is what happens when you follow the crowd, both into political correctness and ignorance or carelessness, and thus handicap a swiss knife, utility truck browser, in seeking to imitate Chrome, which the simple masses flock due mainly mainly because if advertising, or speed, and or because they care little for customization and enhanced functions. Those who even know what TabMixPlus enabled know some of what I am speaking of.
I use about 6 browsers, each for a purpose (one mainly for forums, another for shopping, etc...) and use multiple profiles of Firefox ESR, and Waterfox and Basilisk due to the extensions that enable far more functionality than the 2nd best Firefox Quantum (portable) or the inferior Chrome (portable) etc. I would say Vivaldi is better than Chrome, Opera and others
I miss that awesome extension.