Google Chrome Grows Bigger Despite Microsoft Building a New Browser

[The AchieVer]

Google Chrome Grows Bigger Despite Microsoft Building a New Browser 

Microsoft is currently working on its very own Chromium-based browser, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that users would stop loving Google Chrome overnight.

In fact, the latest statistics provided by NetMarketShare shows that the market share of Google Chrome jumped substantially in May, and the distance between Google’s browser and Mozilla Firefox increases every month.

Specifically, Google Chrome improved its market share from 65.64% in April to no less than 67.90%, and this is the highest the browser managed to go in 2019.

On the other hand, all the other major browsers on the market declined during the month of May.

Mozilla Firefox, for example, which is the number one rival to Google Chrome, declined from 10.23% to 9.46%, while Internet Explorer 11, which no longer receives new features but only security updates, dropped from 7.49% to 6.71%.

Microsoft Edge went down as well, albeit it’s important to note that the figures here concern the stable version in Windows 10 and not the Chromium-based sibling currently in preview. The early version of the revised browser is only available on Windows 10 and macOS.

The original Edge declined from 5.53% in April to 5.36% in May, despite Windows 10 actually increasing its market share. This shows that many of the users who upgrade to Windows 10 end up changing the default browser either to Google Chrome or a different app.

The summary of the April 2019 vs. May 2019 browser market share stats is below:
 

	Google Chrome	Firefox	IE11	Microsoft Edge
April 2019	65.64%	10.23%	7.49%	5.53%
May 2019	67.90% ↗	9.46% ↘	6.71% ↘	5.36% ↘

 
Microsoft hasn’t yet provided an ETA as to when the new Edge is projected to go live, but a beta build is expected later this summer on Windows 10.

 

 

 

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[Karlston]

Big drop for Mozilla's Firefox, they lost 7.5% of their users in May.

 

The disabled addons debacle early May could have had a serious effect.

[steven36]

38 minutes ago, Karlston said:

 

 

The disabled addons debacle early May could have had a serious effect.

Already happening   to Edge, Microsoft delisted  UBO  from the Microsoft  insiders addon store already , i was reading about it  at reddit. EDGE  has so little users it didn't make  many news sites even.

 

 

[Karlston]

Top web browsers 2019: Chrome rebounds, back to eating the world

Google's popular browser is now used by more than two-thirds of web surfers, based on data from Net Applications. Its gains in May came at the expense of Firefox and Internet Explorer.

 

Chrome in May bounced back from a massive April decline to reach a record user share of nearly 68%, sending rivals' shares tumbling.

 

As Computerworld pointed out a month ago when reporting on Chrome's record loss during April, short-term browser movements often lead nowhere. Such was the case when Chrome did a 180-degree turn, adding 2.3 percentage points in May, more than it had lost the month before.

 

The bounce-back was the fourth straight time that, when Chrome lost user share, it regained enough to erase the loss a month later.

 

According to Internet analytics company Net Applications, Chrome's May user share reached 67.9%, a new high for the Google browser. The increase was the largest since August 2016, when Chrome accounted for 54% of all user share and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge still owned over a third of global share. Over the last 12 months, Chrome has gained five percentage points.

 

May's gain put Chrome back on track to break the 70% barrier before year's end. Where last month's forecast pegged the browser making that mark by June 2020, the latest calculation - based on the 12-month average - pegs Chrome at 70% by October.

Firefox retreats..., again

As Chrome climbed, other browsers descended the user share ladder. Mozilla's Firefox lost seven-tenths of a percentage point in May, its largest single-month decline since November 2017, when Net Applications reset shares across the board because it eliminated bot-driven traffic from its data. Firefox last month fell to 9.5%, returning the browser to its December 2018 level.

 

Firefox has had a terrible time sustaining any user share growth. In the last year, the longest uptick has been just two months, so May's quick retreat wasn't unexpected. But it has to concern Mozilla that the browser, the mainstay of its efforts, can't shake itself out of the single-digit doldrums, climb into 10%+ territory and stay there.

 

Computerworld's latest forecast for Firefox now concludes the browser will remain under 10% for the foreseeable future, sliding below 9% in August 2020. Somehow, Mozilla's engineers and designers have to come up with features that will entice new users to join up (or old ones to return). The November 2017 release of "Quantum," a Firefox redesign that rolled out to some fanfare, has failed to translate into greater share. In fact, it's been the opposite: Firefox's user share has fallen about 2 percentage points since, representing a 20% decline.

 

Only Microsoft's browsers have dropped more than that in the same stretch.

IE's share of all Windows slides below 9%

Elsewhere in Net Applications' numbers, the combined user share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge slid nine-tenths of a percentage point to 13%. The decline added to the ongoing slide for Microsoft's browsers, which have lost 3 percentage points in the last 12 months. May's fall erased more than two-thirds of April's out-of-the-blue gains.

 

Most of the user share drop-off came from IE, the legacy browser Microsoft maintains with monthly security updates but won't upgrade with new features. During May, an anemic 8.7% of all Windows users ran IE. No wonder some - including Computerworld - expect IE to vanish, or at best be absorbed into Edge when that browser adds an IE mode to its Chromium foundation.

 

Edge slipped as well, dipping in May by two-tenths of a percentage point, even as Windows 10's user share grew by 1.6 points. Edge accounted for an estimated 11.7% of all Windows 10 browsing activity last month, down eight-tenths of a point from April. That was, however, the first decline since December.

 

Apple's Safari fell three-tenths of a point - three times what it had lost in April - to end at 3.3%, its lowest since the end of 2008. Safari's smaller share was again at least partly due to the continuing shrinking of macOS user share, which slipped about a tenth of a point. But like IE, Edge and Firefox, Safari has suffered from the come-to-Chrome movement; its share of all macOS drooped to 35.5% in May. Two years ago, Apple's browser owned 54% of the Mac browser activity market.

 

Net Applications calculates user share by detecting the agent strings of the browsers people use to reach the websites of Net Applications' clients. The firm tallies visitor sessions to quantify browser user activity.

 

Source: Top web browsers 2019: Chrome rebounds, back to eating the world (Computerworld - Gregg Keizer)