According to data published on the Atlas Atlas blog, only two web browsers exceed one billion users: Google Chrome and Safari. The former certainly didn’t surprise anyone, but the latter did. It is clear that the company did not discriminate according to the type of platform and added the number of users that each application has on both desktop and mobile.

The data provided by Atlas is interesting in that it focuses on the number of users by more than a percentage of the share. According to society, ubiquitous Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world, with nearly 3.4 billion users across all platforms, which are officially Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Needless to say, the success of the search engine giant’s application, which was first a fresh air in a sector that didn’t take advantage of modern processors, then became a major promoter of HTML5 (far ahead of Firefox), ended in consolidation through services, Android, and Google’s powerful extension. .

Talk about Safari, which has just over 1,000 million users, is pre-installed on macOS and iOSbut there is an important aspect to consider, namely whether alternate browsers are identified as such in iOS or whether they all use the Safari user agent, because in this system all alternate browsers are forced to use the WebKit rendering engine implemented in by default, even Firefox.

The Atlas praises Apple for implementing Safari “Several privacy features to ensure the security of its users. Your browser’s privacy report shows how many and which trackers across Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) sites have blocked access to your information. “.

The number of users of the most popular web browsers according to data published on the VPN Atlas blog.

We see this in browsers trying to catch up with Google Chrome and Safari Microsoft Edge ranks third with approximately 212 million users total. If we take the data published by Atlas itself a year earlier, we see that the application of the Redmond giant has moved one place to overtake Mozilla Firefox, which shows that the transition to Chromium was a wise step if we only stick to the share and number of users.

The fourth place is now occupied, as we have already mentioned, o Mozilla Firefox with approximately 179 million users. Despite the backtracking, Atlas says the browser “It is aimed at users who are more interested in privacy because it offers many features to protect it. Private browsing mode includes security against monitoring, malware, phishing and pop-up blocking. “. However, Atlas data reinforces a trend that has been seen for a long time and reveals that Mozilla’s situation is sensitive.

Samsung and Opera came in fifth and sixth, respectively, with 149 million and 108 million users, respectively. Both of these products are Chromia-based, so Firefox is the only clear alternative because Blink, Chromia’s rendering engine, is the fork of WebKit.

As we can see, Google Chrome clearly dominates the web browser market and its main rival is the technology on which it is based. Microsoft Edge has been gaining ground since its move to Chromium and Firefox, and while it is loyal, it continues to lose users.

Image: Pixabay.