Statcounter: Microsoft Edge has 13.21%, Chrome is getting even more popular

Statcounter: Microsoft Edge has 13.21%, Chrome is getting even more popular

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Google Chrome, the uncontested king of the browser market on cell and desktop platforms, has elevated its market share in December 2024. Statcounter reviews that the browser the US Division of Justice desires to separate from Google completed the 12 months robust and elevated its market share.

Google Chrome opens 2025 with a powerful and unreachable 66.88% market share, growing its market share by 0.5 factors in a single month and 1.65 factors year-over-year (in comparison with December 2023).

Such an enormous market share leaves an enormous hole between the primary and second place. Microsoft Edge is the closest to Google Chrome, however its market share continues to be very far. In December 2024, Edge went from 12.87% to 13.21% (+0.34 factors). Yr-over-year development is 2.31 factors.

Apple’s Safari is third, which is sort of an achievement, contemplating it’s the solely browser that’s not out there on Home windows. Based on Statcounter, Safari at the moment holds 8.49% of the desktop browser market (-0.64 factors). Firefox is fourth with 6.14% (-0.3 factors), and Opera is fifth with 2.74% (-0.07 factors).

  1. Google Chrome: 66.88% (+0.5 factors)
  2. Microsoft Edge: 13.21% (+0.34 factors)
  3. Apple Safari: 8.49% (-0.64 factors)
  4. Mozilla Firefox: 6.14% (-0.3 factors)
  5. Opera: 2.74% (-0.07 factors)

Google’s dominant place within the browser and search market may quickly be challenged because the Division of Justice lately filed a courtroom submitting, demanding the corporate to spin off its browser and even promote it to rivals. Whereas there are arguments that such a change might carry extra alternative and extra innovation to the market, Google claims that promoting the browser launched in 2008 to vital acclaim would damage America’s tech management and put customers and their information in danger.

Regardless of a comparatively low market share, Microsoft may also find yourself in sizzling waters with its Edge. Browser makers and advocacy teams lately despatched a letter to the European Fee asking it to topic Edge to DMA rules and mark Microsoft as a gatekeeper that hurts different companies with predatory practices.

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roosho Senior Engineer (Technical Services)
I am Rakib Raihan RooSho, Jack of all IT Trades. You got it right. Good for nothing. I try a lot of things and fail more than that. That's how I learn. Whenever I succeed, I note that in my cookbook. Eventually, that became my blog. 
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