
In actuality, NetApplications did not halt publication of browser usage numbers. (At the end of October 2020, when NetApplications announced the end of its browser usage data collection, Firefox's share stood at 7.2%.) But in late 2020, NetApplications said it was pulling the plug on the data source. For years, Computerworld had regularly reported on the battles for browser dominance, and as a story-within-that-story, noted a gradual shrinking of Mozilla's share.Ĭomputerworld relied on data from NetApplications, a California metrics vendor that tracked browser usage by tallying agent strings reported to the websites of its customers. To anyone paying attention, Firefox's decline was no surprise.

That's a precipitous decline for a browser with no fat on its user base bones. 1, 2021, Firefox shed 57.5 million MAUs, representing a reduction of about 23%, or nearly a quarter.
