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Top web browsers 2019: Microsoft's browser share falls to record low
According to data published today by analytics company Net Applications, Microsoft's browser share for September - composed of Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge - fell 1.8 percentage points to 12%, an all-time low. To put the decline in perspective, the browsers accounted for a user share of 12.4% at the first of this year and hit a high of 14% in April.
[...] Firefox added three-tenths of a percentage point to its user share in September, wrapping up the month at 8.7% and marking the second straight month of keeping things in the black. Even so, it was fourth consecutive month that Firefox remained under 9%, tying a record set in May, June, July and August 2016.
[...] Google's Chrome put another 1.3 percentage points on its frame, weighing in for the month at 68.5%, just a tenth of a point off the record high set in July.
Last month, Computerworld noted the odd pattern to Chrome's share, stretches when the browser would add share one month, lose much of it the next. That continued in September - this has been regular as the proverbial clockwork since February - when Chrome went on its growth spurt after shedding 1.4 points in August.
If the tick-tock continues this month, October should be a downer for Chrome.
But as Computerworld has said before, what counts is the long-term movement of a browser. There, Chrome has done well, adding 2.1 percentage points to its share over the last year. Another sign: The 68.5% of September was the second-highest mark for the browser, edged out only by July's 68.6%.
[...] Elsewhere in Net Applications' data, Apple's Safari grew by half a percentage point to 4.4% and Opera Software's browser stayed where it was at 1.4%. Safari's increase was the second straigh,t but was a due entirely to a nearly-two percentage point leap by macOS that put the operating system in unknown territory (and likely on shaky ground; macOS' 11.6% simply won't stand up).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @01:15PM (2 children)
Once Edge switches to Chromium, will it be counted as MS, or Chrome?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday October 02 2019, @03:57PM (1 child)
It'll be MiChrome
Seriously, though. From what I understand, it will still be Microsoft Edge, just with Chrome internals.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday October 02 2019, @04:33PM
From the point of view of a web application developer, any other Chromium-based browser will have the same set of web platform compatibility quirks as Google Chrome. It's like third-party web browsers on iOS: they all fail to support the same things that Safari fails to support because they all use the same underlying WKWebView library. Use of the same browser engine is why the statistics on Caniuse.com combines Safari for iOS and Chrome for iOS into one figure, for example.