14 DAY TRIAL // Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have managed to increase their market share in July 2020, according to third-party numbers from NetMarketShare, and by the looks of things, the biggest victim of this continued growth seems to be none other than Firefox.
Mozilla’s application has long been the second most-used desktop browser, but now that Microsoft Edge has completed the switch to Chromium and more people give it a shot, its market share is continuously declining.
And Firefox is actually going down so fast that it already lost the second place, with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge now spearheading the desktop browser market.
Last month, Google Chrome increased its market share from 70.19% to 71.00%, while Microsoft Edge jumped from 8.07% to 8.46%. Meanwhile, Firefox declined from 7.58% to 7.27%.
The new Microsoft Edge
The migration to the Chromium engine allowed Microsoft to turn Edge into a cross-platform browser, and this is one of the reasons that contributed to the growth of the new app.
Edge is now available not only on Windows 10, but also on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and even macOS. At the same time, Microsoft is also working on a Linux version of the browser, and a preview build is expected by the end of the year.
But what made Microsoft Edge the second most-used desktop browser out there so fast after the switch to Chromium is definitely Microsoft offering it as the default browser in Windows 10.
The new Edge replaces the legacy version of the browser as the default app in the operating system, and with Windows 10 itself also becoming the world’s number one desktop platform, Edge’s market share increases too. Microsoft offers the new Edge both as a manual download and as an automatic update on Windows 10 devices.