In the European browser market, Chrome and Firefox have established strong market positions with about 60.7 and 12 percent, respectively. In other countries, Google Chrome has also taken up a dominating role. Historically one of the large players in the segment, Internet Explorer, seems to have lost its tight grip on the web browser market.Īs shown by the graph at hand, Google Chrome has been the most popular browser in the United States since December 2013. The most popular current browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari. However, Chrome held a majority of the market share wit over 59 percent in the same month.Ī web browser is a software application for visualizing websites, documents and data. Edge was first publicly released in July 2015, with the consumer release of Windows 10. In June 2021, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of 11.77 percent in the United States (US).