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Firefox risks irrelevance as mobile browsing booms (news analysis)
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248415/Firefox_risks_irrelevance_as_mobile_browsing_boomsComputerworld - Mozilla's Firefox is in danger of becoming irrelevant as more browsing originates on smartphones and tablets, statistics from a Web measurement vendor show.
During April, about one in every six people who went online surfed the Web using a mobile browser, according to Net Applications. Mobile browsing's climb of more than 5 percentage points in the last 12 months represented a growth rate of 48%.
Most of the rest of those who went online in April did so armed with a desktop browser installed on a personal computer.
The shift toward mobile has hurt Mozilla most of all: Firefox's total user share -- the combination of both desktop and mobile -- was 14.1% for April, its lowest level since Computerworld began tracking the metric. That was only slightly ahead of Apple's Safari and significantly behind Google's Chrome and Android browsers.