Google is already a company that exercises considerable influence over the direction of the Web's development. But Google's reach is, in practice, much greater: not only is the Web a substantially more important place today than it was in the early 2000s, but also there's a whole new mobile Web that operates in addition to the desktop Web. In terms of raw percentages, Google won't have quite as big a lock on the browser space as Microsoft did with Internet Explorer-Internet Explorer 6 peaked at around 80 percent, and all versions of Internet Explorer together may have reached as high as 95 percent. That's two-thirds of the mobile market going to Chrome and Chrome derivatives. Safari has about 22 percent, with the Chinese UC Browser sitting at about 9 percent. Chrome has 53 percent directly, plus another 6 percent from Samsung Internet, another 5 percent from Opera, and another 2 percent from Android browser. The mobile story has stronger representation from Safari, thanks to the iPhone, but overall tells a similar story. When Microsoft's transition is complete, we're looking at a world where Chrome and Chrome-derivatives take about 80 percent of the market, with only Firefox, at 9 percent, actively maintained and available cross-platform. The abandoned, no-longer-updated Internet Explorer has 5 percent, and Safari-only available on macOS-about 5 percent.
Opera, based on Chromium, has another 2 percent. That's a worrying turn of events, given the company's past behavior.Ĭhrome itself has about 72 percent of the desktop-browser market share. With Microsoft's decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google.
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