14 DAY TRIAL // Google Chrome continues to be the world’s number one browser on the desktop, and statistics provided by NetMarketShare show that despite holding a record market share, it even managed to go higher last month.
Right now, Google Chrome is the top choice on PCs with a share of 68.60%, according to these figures, and this is up from no less than 66.29% the previous month.
Mozilla Firefox continues to be the runner-up name in the browser wars, and the July 2019 data shows its market share dropped to 8.34% last month from 8.86%.
As far as Microsoft Edge is concerned, Microsoft’s browsers currently commands a 5.80% market share, which is actually a drop from 6.03% the previous month. The data here, however, only covers the built-in Windows 10 browser and not the Chromium version that Microsoft is currently developing.
The Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge
While it’s pretty clear that, right now, Microsoft Edge doesn’t stand a chance in the race against Google Chrome, there are high hopes that the upcoming Chromium-based replacement would be much more successful.
Microsoft is working on a new version of Edge that’s based on the same engine as Google Chrome, so the two rivals now work together on the development of new features that would eventually go live in both browsers.
As a fully-featured alternative to Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge can be offered not only to Windows 10 users, but also to those running older Windows and even macOS. The Chromium engine also supports Linux, but until now, Microsoft is yet to confirm that such a version of its browser is under development.
Preview versions of the new Microsoft Edge are already available for download, but Microsoft has until now avoided to provide us with an ETA as to when it plans to complete the development of the browser.