The Most Popular Browsers in the World, in Two Maps

What’s your favorite internet browser to use? Based on the data that’s out there, there’s a pretty good chance that the answer to that is Google Chrome. This cross-platform web browser was developed by Google, and it originally was available for Microsoft Windows back in 2008. According to StatCounter as of October 2021, it was estimated that Google Chrome has a dominating 68% worldwide market share on browsers.

Here’s an interesting visualization that was discovered on Reddit, which looks at the most popular internet browsers in different countries in both 2012 and 2022, across all platforms.

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According to this visualization, the four popular browsers that were most used across the world in April 2012 were Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. If these four different browsers, it’s clear based on the maps that Internet Explorer and Google Chrome were the two that were the most heavily used. North America heavily preferred using Internet Explorer, while parts of Asia and Europe seemed to most prefer either that or Google Chrome.

Fast-forward to ten years later, and the look at what the most popular internet browsers are appears to be quiet different, as none of the popular four options are even present in 2022. As of April 2022, the three internet browsers dominating the world are Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Google Chrome. Google Chrome, however, is widely used all over the world, dominating the entire map. Today, Google Chrome is available in 47 different languages and is convincingly the most popular internet browser to use, both as a web browser or as a mobile browser.