Historically one of the large players in the segment, Internet Explorer has unfortunately lost its tight grip on the web browser market.Īs shown by the graph at hand, Google Chrome has been the most popular browser in the United States since December 2013. The most popular current browsers are Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. However, Chrome held a majority of the market share wit almost 61 percent in the same month.Ī web browser is a software application for visualizing websites, documents and data. Edge was first publicly released in July 2015, with the consumer release of Windows 10. In January 2023, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of 14.54 percent in the United States.