Google Chrome Market Share Hits an All-time High on Desktops

Jun. 4, 2020

According to Net Applications,Microsoft Edgesits pretty at number two with 7.9 percent market share ahead of Firefox. Mozilla’s open-source browser is at number three on the list with 7.2 percent,having lost the second place to Microsoft Edgeearlier this year. Safari and Opera rounded out the top-five with 3.9 percent and 1.1 percent market share, respectively.

As for Internet Explorer, the once market-leader now accounts for only 4.6 percent of the global desktop browser market. The browser has long beendeprecated by Microsoft in favor of Edge, which, in its Chromium avatar, is picking up users in a way that should be a major cause for concern for rivals like Mozilla and Opera Software.

Even as Chrome continues to gain market share, it just doesn’t seem to shake off concerns regarding privacy. Google earlier this week wassued by Chrome usersin the US over allegations that the browsercollected user information even in Incognito mode. The lawsuit claims that Chrome gathers data regardless of Incognito mode being enabled or not.

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