microsoft Can Microsoft Edge Become the World's Top Browser? Stats Show It Can’t

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Can Microsoft Edge Become the World's Top Browser? Stats Show It Can’t

 

 

Both are growing, but Chrome improved at a stunning pace

 

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Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with Edge browser in Windows 10 in order to provide users with a more advanced alternative to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but statistics show that neither has been impacted by the debut of the new application.

 

What’s more, Google Chrome has continued increasing its share on the desktop and even passed the 50 percent milestone, so it’s now running on more than 1 in 2 PCs out there.

 

New data provided by Net Applications for the month of August shows that Google Chrome continues to be the leading browser for desktop users out there, and it now has a market share of 53.97 percent, while Internet Explorer, although dropping, is the runner-up with 27.38 percent. Firefox is third, but far behind with 7.69 percent, while Edge is next with 5.16 percent.

 

Without a doubt, Microsoft’s big dream is to make Edge a rival to Google Chrome, but it’s very clear that the new browser has a long way to go before actually being able to compete against Google’s.

 

Microsoft Edge at its maturity

 

With Edge currently at its maturity thanks to the Anniversary Update (as this release brought extensions and a plethora of new features to the browser), a look at the performance of the app last month shows that, although growing, Microsoft’s new browser can’t reach the pace that leader Google Chrome set a few months ago.

 

For example, Edge improved last month from 5.09 to 5.16 percent, so it scored an increase of 0.07 percent while Google Chrome skyrocketed from 50.95 to 53.97 percent, up 3.07 percent.

 

Of course, there are many reasons why Microsoft Edge still can’t grow as fast as Google Chrome, and the main one is the limited availability that’s impacting its adoption. Edge is currently available on Windows 10 only, and Microsoft has no plans to bring it on a different operating system, while Google Chrome runs on all Windows versions and non-Windows platforms.

 

In terms of functionality, however, Microsoft Edge is improving substantially these days, and the Anniversary Update certainly brought features that make it a much better rival to Chrome and Firefox. The extension support is clearly the key improvement, and there’s hope that the Redstone 2 update due in spring 2017 will bring even more new features, but Microsoft is remaining tight-lipped for the time being on everything related to future updates.

 

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[LeeSmithG]

Shame M$ don't allow Windows seven (7) users,  use it.

 

I have tried it on my Sons Windows eight point one (8.1).

 

 

[pc71520]

Edge is my secondary browser, as I am still a Firefox x64 user.

[D1v1n3D]

Firefox sure is dying these days all those bad decisions they made in the last year. I use Edge as my daily web driver and chrome my secondary for certain sites that do not work with edge yet but as of right now I really like edge it's been pretty stable but it is so fast and smooth specially for videos and having adblock is a major improvement over ie11's ad blocker privacy protectors that are just clunky.

[eurobyn]

what i think about edge browser (sucks) and why does edge get such a number ? because microsoft have made it standard browser.

the best browser for me is what not works in internet explorer will work in Firefox ans so on.

what i see from google chrome a lot of bulshit passing by (things whe dont whant to use)

the safest browser (my opinion) is still internet explorer (not the fastest) but more secure then all the others.

my second browser is Firefox.(x64)

all have a opinion (this are my opinions)

i hope i spell it right (dutch guy from Belgium)

 

my 2 cents.

 

[D1v1n3D]

I don't know I get malware every time I use IE11 and I have yet with edge but time will tell.

[eurobyn]

1 hour ago, D1v1n3D said:

I don't know I get malware every time I use IE11 and I have yet with edge but time will tell.

what antivirus do you use ? i use nod32 and get no virusses or malware. ?

 

[D1v1n3D]

I use to use nod32 but now bit defender, nod32 started using to much resources and causing gaming performance issues haven't used it in years.

[steven36]

No let-up in devastating decline of Microsoft's browsers

 

Microsoft's browsers continued to hemorrhage users last month, with no sign that the bleeding will stop.

According to Internet analytics vendor Net Applications, the combined user share of Internet Explorer and Edge fell 2.2 percentage points in August, ending the month at 32.5%. It was the fourth month in the last six where IE + Edge lost more than 2 points, and the second-largest decline in the 11-year history of Computerworld's recording of Net Applications' data.

 

The brutal erosion of Microsoft's browser share has been unprecedented, rivaled only by the plunge of Netscape Navigator, which Internet Explorer dethroned in the second half of the 1990s. In the past six months, IE has lost more than 12 percentage points of user share; since the first of the year, IE has shed 16 points.

 

If losses continue at the rate of the last eight months, IE + Edge will slide under the 25% bar by the end of the year, Computerworld calculated.

 

Microsoft's problems holding onto browser users have benefited Google most of all, as the Mountain View, Calif. company's Chrome again added share to its quick-climbing total. During August, Chrome accounted for 54% of all browsers, a 3-point increase over July.

 

There was no indication in Net Applications' data that Chrome's rise will soon stop, as its gain for August tied for second-largest ever, bested only by May's nearly 4-point boost.

 

Chrome has passed IE as the most-used browser largely because Microsoft ended support for all but the newest browsers -- IE11 and Edge -- in January. The mandate, which dropped support for some versions of IE years earlier than expected, gave users a choice of upgrading to a newer edition of Internet Explorer (or upgrading to Windows 10 and adopting Edge) or dumping IE for a rival. Millions did the latter, switching to Chrome.

 

Chrome could be the browser for two-thirds of all users by year's end if 2016's average monthly gain continues.

 

Mozilla's Firefox has been unable to capitalize on Microsoft's debacle as has Chrome. In fact, Firefox has lost more than a third of its user share since 2016's start. During August, Firefox fell four-tenths of a percentage point, dropping to 7.7%, a low not seen by the open-source browser since April 2005, just months after its official launch. Unless Mozilla can arrest the skid, Firefox could fall below the 5% mark as early as March 2017.

 

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/3115335/internet/no-let-up-in-devastating-decline-of-microsofts-browsers.html

 

[eurobyn]

18 hours ago, D1v1n3D said:

I use to use nod32 but now bit defender, nod32 started using to much resources and causing gaming performance issues haven't used it in years.

nod32 in gaming mode use to much resources ???

????? use the gaming mode and tell something else.

 

bit defender ? that eats more memory than you have on the system. and yes it haves also a gaming mode. lol

 

[D1v1n3D]

I have tested both as of last night and nod32 without a doubt users more resrouces not to mention the memory leak that nod32 has currently in US builds.