The analytics company Net Applications has released the April statistics for the global web browser market. According to the presented data, Google Chrome continues to be the most sought-after browser among desktop users, holding a significant 65.4 percent market share. Firefox ranks second with 10.2%, followed by Internet Explorer at 8.4%. The successor to IE, Microsoft Edge, is used on only 5.5% of PCs connected to the global network. Rounding out the top five is Safari with a 3.6% market share.
In the mobile sector, which includes smartphone and tablet users, Chrome also leads with 63.5% of the audience. Safari is the second most popular with a 26.4% market share, and third is the Chinese QQ Browser with 2.7%. Last month, 1.8% of mobile device owners browsed the web using Firefox, with approximately 1.5% of them accessing web pages through the classic Android browser. Google’s products dominate all segments of the browser market.
It is worth noting that despite Microsoft Edge's rather shaky position in the global browser market, the software giant's development team continues to enhance and improve their product. Just recently, the company released a new version of the Edge web browser based on the open-source Chromium project. By betting on Open Source, Microsoft hopes to jump on the last train leaving the station and attract the user audience to their side.
The full version of the Net Applications report can be found on the website .
