{"id":31086,"date":"2022-05-31T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-data-shows-only-two-browsers-with-more-than-1-billion-users\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:27:27","slug":"new-data-shows-only-two-browsers-with-more-than-1-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-data-shows-only-two-browsers-with-more-than-1-billion-users\/","title":{"rendered":"New data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">Enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Safari on a Mac, displaying the Google Chrome website.<\/div>\n<p>Samuel Axon<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 43:single\/related:8d48c2c2fae27221767c589e467105f4 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s Safari web browser has more than 1 billion users, according to an estimate by Atlas VPN.  Only one other browser has more than a billion users, and that&#8217;s Google&#8217;s Chrome.  But at nearly 3.4 billion, Chrome still leaves Safari in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that these numbers include mobile users, not just desktop users.  Likely, Safari&#8217;s status as the default browser for both the iPhone and iPad plays a much bigger role than its usage on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s impressive given that Safari is the only major web browser not available on Android, which is the world&#8217;s most popular mobile operating system, or Windows, the most popular desktop OS.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas VPN wrote this on its blog to explain how it got to the number:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The statistics are based on the GlobalStats browser market share percentage, which was then converted into numbers using the Internet World Stats internet user metric to retrieve the exact numbers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the data, Chrome has approximately 3,378,967,819 users, while Safari has 1,006,232,879.  In a very distant third place is Microsoft&#8217;s Edge, at 212,695,363.  Firefox is hot on Edge&#8217;s tails in fourth at 179,084,244.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The blog post claims that Edge only just overtook Firefox for the third-place spot in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chrome has been dominant for a long time after it supplanted Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer.  If the news was just that Chrome is the biggest browser, that wouldn&#8217;t even be worth reporting \u2014 these days, Chrome <em>is<\/em> the web, to a degree.  And it&#8217;s worth noting that the newest versions of the third-place browser, Edge, are built on Google&#8217;s Chromium.<\/p>\n<p>Apple used to have broader ambitions with Safari, in that there was once a Windows version of the browser.  But Apple discontinued the development of that version in June 2010. You can technically still run Safari on Windows 10 or 11, but it wouldn&#8217;t be the best idea security-wise.<\/p>\n<p>And while Safari is the default web browser on iOS, it is possible to install and use third-party browsers on the iPhone and iPad.  Since 2020, it&#8217;s been possible to set something other than Safari as your default browser.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the difference between Safari and a third-party browser on the iPhone is skin-deep.  Alternative browsers like Chrome or Firefox still use Safari&#8217;s core technologies under the hood;  they simply allow users to use bookmarks and other additional features found in those browsers on other platforms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Safari on a Mac, displaying the Google Chrome website. Samuel Axon Apple&#8217;s Safari web browser has more than 1 billion users, according to an estimate by Atlas VPN. Only one other browser has more than a billion users, and that&#8217;s Google&#8217;s Chrome. But at nearly 3.4 billion, Chrome still leaves Safari in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/new-data-shows-only-two-browsers-with-more-than-1-billion-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/safari-chrome-760x380.png?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/safari-chrome-760x380.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}