Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026

speckx 35 points 18 comments July 12, 2026
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panny

Why was this auto [flagged] by HN? I had to vouch this. Edit: Aaaaand, [flagged] again in 26 minutes with no explanation. Edit2: Since I'm "posting too fast" once again, I'll just have to reply to you here. "flagged by users" in four minutes? I don't think so. Besides if hacking statscounter was so easy that it happens monthly as you claim (despite that not being proven out on the chart), it seems like a relevant discussion for a site named "Hacker News."

stephen_cagle

Wait, is this correct? Firefox moved from 5% to 12% in one month? That seems unlikely...

promiseofbeans

Not sure about this. See Firefox’s internal stats: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

alexforster

It's much more likely to be a methodology issue than that Firefox's install base suddenly grew 240% in such a short period of time. Maybe some AI scraper juicing the numbers? Mozilla's telemetry could confirm this, so if they don't start bragging about a huge MAU increase, I'd assume this is wrong.

dxxvi

When Firefox has an internal adblock like Brave, I will come back.

Markoff

I recently switched phone (Pixel 6a with swollen battery to Xiaomi 13 (Shizuku solves most of the issues without installing custom ROM, which they made impossible through bootloader unlocking process)) and for now decided to not install Cromite yet, but keep Firefox which was offered in browser choice at beginning, still feel very annoyed by the new (not customizable) context menu, but they keep making it even more annoying like with blue persistent for telling you you had downloaded something as if regular notification wouldn't be enough and of course there is no way to get rid off the blue dot besides deleting download (record), just another annoyance or now they finally semi fixed home page with 8 pinned shortcuts, but despite not having anything else on home page you must still tap Show all, to see other shortcuts, why can't I show all the shortcuts directly on home page is beyond me so much for Firefox customization...

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