Google Chrome remains unstoppable at the forefront of web browsers for computer desktops and also for mobile phones. According to Statcounter data for the month of December, Google development has a share of the 66.14% on PCs and 64.31% on mobile devices.
Web browsers are one of the most important types of applications (if not the most) on any device. It opens the door to the great web of the Internet and its many services, and allows you to rank like no other software in search engines and get the best slice of the multi-billion dollar online advertising pie.
Google Chrome enjoys spectacular dominance and rivals have not been able to make a dent in 2022, where it has fallen by a meager 0.2%. In fact, little has changed since a historic reversal in desktop web browsers occurred in 2016, when it first overtook Internet Explorer. A novelty that had not happened since -many years ago- Internet Explorer defenestrated Netscape and became the first web browser on the market.
Today Chrome has no rival and the fight is for second place. Focusing on computer desktops, Firefox has been falling for months and there is no recovery in sight, closing the year with a 7.21%. As for Apple’s Safari, it is the only development that is not cross-platform and its exclusivity in macOS makes it difficult for it to surpass a certain mark. In fact, the 9.02% that Statcounter assigns you in December is lower than that of Mac computers.
Microsoft Edge deserves a special mention. The new version has achieved second place after the fall of Firefox and its improvement by adopting Chromium technology, but it has gained just one and a half percentage points in 2022 to close the year in the 10.98% share. And this despite being included by default in Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems that have an absolute dominance on PCs and Microsoft’s tricks to make it difficult to use alternatives. (The same happens with Chrome on Android)
Browser share December 2019 to December 2022 – Statcounter
There are excellent alternatives in web browsers and those indicated must include others such as Brave, Opera or Vivaldi, but Google Chrome does not lose users and there are no signs that it will do so in the short term. Fast, compatible, secure, with a huge number of extensions, support from developers, excellent synchronization with the mobile version, and an interface that hasn’t changed significantly in recent years and that users who use it know by heart and who It doesn’t look like they’re going to trade it for another.
