Mozilla Firefox is also on a similar trajectory, gradually bleeding users and losing its market share despite a steady stream of updates, fixes, and feature additions. Back in January last year, Safari had a 10.38 percent market share which is now down to 9.61 percent, showing the slow but steady decline in its popularity. Chrome leads by a landslide margin, with a presence on a whopping 66.64 percent of desktops.Įdge had a 9.54 percent share in February when its popularity crept up, and it started showing unmistakable signs that it would surpass Safari as the second-most popular browser. Keep in mind that similar reports cannot gather data with 100% accuracy, so there is always a margin of error.Google Chrome continues to top the charts as the world’s most popular web browser on desktop, but we saw it coming, and a recent analysis suggests Microsoft Edge has snatched second place on the list away from Apple’s Safari.ĭata accumulated by Statcounter shows that Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser is used on 10.07 percent of desktop computers worldwide, while 9.61 percent use Safari. You can find the latest data from StatCounter on the official website. Although Microsoft Edge has more than 20 million downloads on mobile platforms (Android and iOS combined), its market share cannot get anywhere near Google Chrome and Safari. Apple’s browser has an impressive 26.71% share, losing only to Chrome with 62.06%. On the mobile side, Edge is nowhere near Safari. It is important to note that the data above covers desktop browsers.
Users often complain about Windows imposing Microsoft Edge and changing default settings without asking first. That was one of the main reasons why Microsoft decided to abandon Edge Legacy and its proprietary EdgeHTML rendering engine.Īpart from having a mainstream rendering engine in its browser, Microsoft “helps” Edge maintain its growth with all sorts of practices, including user-hostile. Safari is slowly losing its users, and Firefox suffers from the same situation as users jump ship to Chromium-based browsers with better compatibility. It appears that Chromium will continue crushing the browser market, leaving little space for alternatives from Mozilla and Apple. Opera is fifth, and the good old Internet Explorer is still kicking with 1.06%. Safari is still in second place with 9.84%, and Mozilla Firefox has 9.18%, which gives it the fourth spot.
Worldwide, the browser from Microsoft now holds 9.54% (+0.3 points ), securing third place.
According to StatCounter, in January 2022, Microsoft Edge almost took over Apple’s Safari.
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