Google Chrome Leads October PC Browser Market, Microsoft Edge Sees Rise in Userbase

Google Chrome continues to dominate the PC browser segment with a market share of 69.25 percent in October. According to the data provided by research firm, NetShareMarket, Microsoft Edge that holds the second spot and is slowly improving its userbase with 10.22 percent share (up from 8.84 percent in September) during the same period. The third, fourth, fifth positions are held by Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari, respectively.

The latest projections by NetShareMarket further shows an increase Internet Explorer share as well from 3.88 percent in September to 5.57 percent in October. On the other hand, Apple’s Safari browser share fell from 3.57 percent to 3.40 percent during the same period. The growth in Microsoft Edge’s share last month stems from the company’s latest efforts to fully kill its antiquated Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser in a bid to push its latest Chromium-based application. Microsoft had recently announced that as many 1,156 websites websites would not open on the IE11 starting this month, whereas it would redirect users to Edge. Additionally, Microsoft had earlier stated that the Microsoft Teams web app would also stop supporting Internet Explorer as early as November 30, and several features are already being disabled with the old browser.