14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is currently working on its very own Chromium-based browser, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that users would stop loving Google Chrome overnight.
In fact, the latest statistics provided by NetMarketShare shows that the market share of Google Chrome jumped substantially in May, and the distance between Google’s browser and Mozilla Firefox increases every month.
Specifically, Google Chrome improved its market share from 65.64% in April to no less than 67.90%, and this is the highest the browser managed to go in 2019.
On the other hand, all the other major browsers on the market declined during the month of May.
Mozilla Firefox, for example, which is the number one rival to Google Chrome, declined from 10.23% to 9.46%, while Internet Explorer 11, which no longer receives new features but only security updates, dropped from 7.49% to 6.71%.
Microsoft Edge went down as well, albeit it’s important to note that the figures here concern the stable version in Windows 10 and not the Chromium-based sibling currently in preview. The early version of the revised browser is only available on Windows 10 and macOS.
The original Edge declined from 5.53% in April to 5.36% in May, despite Windows 10 actually increasing its market share. This shows that many of the users who upgrade to Windows 10 end up changing the default browser either to Google Chrome or a different app.
The summary of the April 2019 vs. May 2019 browser market share stats is below:
| Google Chrome | Firefox | IE11 | Microsoft Edge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | 65.64% | 10.23% | 7.49% | 5.53% |
| May 2019 | 67.90% ↗ | 9.46% ↘ | 6.71% ↘ | 5.36% ↘ |