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Browser Market Shares

Users share and debate statistics on web browser market shares from sources like StatCounter, NetMarketShare, and personal analytics, often noting Chrome's dominance, Firefox's low share, and variations by audience or region.

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Sample Comments

notlukejr • Mar 5, 2016 • View on HN

Source or link to browser market share? 8% seems too low for FireFox.

febed • Mar 27, 2025 • View on HN

Anyone compare this with BrowserUse ?https://browser-use.com/

afsina • Jan 28, 2014 • View on HN

http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/ shows otherwise.

sorbus • Jul 11, 2011 • View on HN

Chrome's market share is above 20% now (Firefox's is below 30%, and IE's is below 50%).

jay_kyburz • Apr 30, 2016 • View on HN

I just checked my own stats. Chrome 62%, Safari 18.5, Firefox 10% Internet Explorer 3%

SEJeff • Mar 17, 2020 • View on HN

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-shareChrome: 65.54%Firefox: 4.58%Perhaps your sample size of people around you is too small?

jve • Oct 3, 2022 • View on HN

30% per statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#yearly-2009-...

r7000 • Oct 5, 2010 • View on HN

My recent traffic from HN (a few hundred hits):Chrome: 55% Firefox: 30% Safari: 9% IE: 4% Other: 2%

fumar • Sep 25, 2025 • View on HN

Isn’t Safari 30% of browser share in the US?

veyron • Jun 20, 2011 • View on HN

Does anyone have statistics regarding browser usage in the wild?