U.S. desktop internet browsers market share 2015-2024

In May 2024, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of 14 percent in the United States. Edge was first publicly released in July 2015, with the consumer release of Windows 10. However, Chrome held a majority of the market share wit almost 60 percent in the same month. 

What are web browsers?

A web browser is a software application for visualizing websites, documents and data. The most popular current browsers are Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Historically one of the large players in the segment, Internet Explorer has unfortunately lost its tight grip on the web browser market.
As shown by the graph at hand, Google Chrome has been the most popular browser in the United States since December 2013. In other countries, Google Chrome has also taken up a dominating role. In the European browser market, Chrome and Safari have established strong market positions with 61 and 11.4 percent, respectively. On a worldwide scale, Chrome provided a share of around 64 percent in the global web browser market as of December 2021.