After Google Chrome, Only One Other Internet Browser Now Has 1 Billion Users
The battle of internet browsers is on! According to fresh data, only two internet browsers in the world have more than a billion users. While Google's highly successful Chrome was expected to be on the list, we didn't think Apple's Safari browser would be the only other browser will over a billion users.
A new analysis by Atlas VPN showed that Safari has a hit over a billion users, while Google Chrome has a whopping 3.3 billion+ users. This is especially impressive for Safari, an Apple-only browser that cannot be accessed either on Android or Windows.
Most used internet browsers by users
The top six most-used internet browsers in the world are - Chrome (3,378,967,819 users), Safari (1,006,232,879), Microsoft Edge (212,695,363), followed by Firefox (179,084,244 users), Samsung Internet (149,674,515), and Opera (108,710,963).
?According to Atlas VPN, Edge took over Firefox just over the course of last year with 212 million users. It's no surprise that Chrome is at the front of this race, after it showed up out of nowhere and dethroned Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In fact, Microsoft's new browser, Edge, is built on Google's Chromium.
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As for Apple's Safari, the company offered the browser for Windows long ago. In 2010, the company decided to abandon Safari for Windows. Safari's major user share could come from the fact that it is the default browser for many users with iOS devices.
How were the numbers calculated? "The statistics are based on the GlobalStats browser market share percentage, which was then converted into numbers using the Internet World Stats internet user metric to retrieve the exact numbers," Atlas VPN wrote in a blog post.
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References
Atlas VPN. (2022). Apple’s Safari browser now has more than 1 billion users.?
