Mozilla Firefox: The free browser continues to lose market share

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Mozilla's free browser Firefox continues to lose market share and is around 20 percent lower than at the beginning of 2019. The Mozilla Foundation has now announced this as part of its publicly available Firefox Public Data Report. The number of monthly users fell from around 250 to 200 million users.

Firefox is clearly losing ground

Since January 2019, when Firefox still had around 253 million monthly active users, the number of those who regularly use the free browser has fallen to around 197 million. A not insignificant decrease of 22.1 percent, tendency falling further.

  1. Firefox Public Data Report: Clients (Image: Mozilla)

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Firefox Public Data Report: Clients
Firefox Public Data Report: Hours per Day
Firefox Public Data Report: Intensity

The duration of use per day and the days of use per week increased due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated proportion of users in the home office, but that alone is far from being a success story for Mozilla. Compared to the dominant top dog Google Chrome and the up-and-coming Microsoft Edge based on Chromium, the free browser continues to lose ground.

The ComputerBase readers meanwhile remain loyal to Firefox, albeit with a downward trend. With a share of 31.4 percent, the free browser is currently in second place behind Chrome, which is also the leader here, and is used by 41.8 percent of the readership. The browsers Safari and Edge follow with 14.6 percent and 6.8 percent respectively.

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Economic pressure on Mozilla continues to grow

Meanwhile, pressure is growing on Mozilla, which announced around a year ago that it would lay off around 250 employees and thus around a quarter of its workforce in order to concentrate more on projects in the future.