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PC Gamer
Rick Lane

6 million more people are using Firefox because of new EU rules, which is good news for Chrome haters like me

Mozilla Firefox logo with an artistic outline of a phone.

As someone who has been a die-hard adherent of Firefox for going on 20 years. I was shocked to discover that less than 3% of Internet users surf the web using Mozilla's open-source web-browser. Sure, Firefox can feel like it's held together with masking tape at times. But it's still superior to Edge while also being generally less cursed than Chrome, especially when it comes to things like privacy and not installing stealth AI models on your PC.

Since learning that statistic, I've been concerned that there may come a point when Firefox fades away completely. But it seems that the opposite is happening. Thanks to the EU's Digital Markets Act, Firefox has gained six million users since 2024.

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