Statcounter has published its latest report, which provides information about browsers used on different platforms and operating systems. There are no major changes in general. While Google Chrome continues to rank first with a share that seems to be inaccessible, Edge, Safari and Firefox are struggling for second place.
According to Statcounter, Chrome currently has a 66.16% market share. In December 2022, Google’s crawler lost just 0.02 points, but this difference may be a margin of error in the data. Microsoft Edge stands out as the second most popular desktop browser, with a much more modest margin of 10.99% (-0.18 points).
Safari is the only non-cross-platform browser in the report, and being macOS-exclusive makes it hard for Apple to beat its current market share. Statcounter says that Apple Safari currently has 8.98% (-0.61 points). Firefox is fourth with 7.22% (+0.12 points) and Opera is fifth with 3.29% (-0.3 points).
When we look at the changes compared to previous years, we see that the general picture has not changed much. Google Chrome remained stable in the 65-70% band with periodic rises and falls, and the same is true for Apple Safari, which has a 9% market share. Firefox experienced a notable drop in user rate from around 10% in early 2020 to 7.22%.
Microsoft Edge proves that it is extremely difficult, even for Microsoft, to disrupt the desktop browser market, with over 1 billion active Windows devices capable of running Chromium-based Edge. While Microsoft Edge continues to climb, its year-over-year growth is less than 2%.
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