Editing Web browser (section)

== Browser market ==
{{See also|Usage share of web browsers}}
[[File:Various web browsers installed on windows 11 operating system.png|thumb|right|220px|Various web browsers installed on [[Windows 11]] operating system]]

[[Google Chrome]] has been the dominant browser since the mid-2010s and currently has a 66% global market share on all devices.<ref name="statcounter"/> The vast majority of its [[source code]] comes from Google's [[Open-source software|open-source]] [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] project;<ref>{{cite web|url= https://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/welcome-to-chromium_02.html|title= Welcome to Chromium|author=((Google))|date=2 September 2008 |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> this code is also the basis for [[Chromium (web browser)#Browsers based on Chromium|many other]] browsers, including [[Microsoft Edge]], currently in third place with about a 5% share,<ref name="statcounter"/> as well as [[Samsung Internet]] and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] in fifth and sixth places respectively with approximately 2% market share each.<ref name="statcounter"/>

The other two browsers in the top four are made from different [[codebase]]s. [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], based on [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[WebKit]] code, is the second most popular web browser and is dominant on Apple devices, resulting in an 18% global share.<ref name="statcounter"/> [[Firefox]], in fourth place, with about 3% market share,<ref name="statcounter"/> is based on [[Mozilla]]'s code. Both of these codebases are open-source, so a number of small niche browsers are also made from them.

The following table details the top web browsers by market share, as of February, 2025:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|-
! Web browser !! Market share !! Reference
|-
| Chrome
| ~66%
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|-
| Safari
| ~16%
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|-
| Edge
| ~6%
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|-
| Firefox
| ~3%
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|-
| Samsung Internet
| ~2%
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|-
| Opera
| ~2%
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|-
| [[Brave (web browser)|Brave]]
| ~1%
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|-
| [[Yandex Browser|Yandex]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[UC Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Huawei#Huawei_Browser|Huawei Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[DuckDuckGo Private Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[QQ Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Mi Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Naver Whale]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Aloha Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Avast Secure Browser]]
| less than 1%
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|-
| [[Vivaldi (web browser)|Vivaldi]]
| less than 1%
| <ref name="cloudflare" />
|- 
| [[AVG_Technologies#AVG_Secure_Browser|AVG Secure Browser]]
| less than 1%
| <ref name="cloudflare" />
|-
| others
| less than 1%
| <ref name="cloudflare" />
|}

=== Market share by type of device ===
Prior to late 2016, the majority of web traffic came from desktop computers. However, [[Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Crossover_to_smartphones_having_majority_share|since then]], mobile devices (smartphones) have represented the majority of web traffic.<ref name="StatCounterMobile2016">{{cite web |title=Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share Worldwide |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet/worldwide/2016 |website=StatCounter |access-date=23 March 2025}}</ref> As of February 2025, mobile devices represent a 62% share of Internet traffic, followed by desktop at 36% and tablet at 2%.<ref name="StatCounterDeviceUsageRecent">{{cite web |title=Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share Worldwide |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet/worldwide |website=StatCounter Global Stats |access-date=23 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref>