According to a survey by Atlas VPN, Apple Safari now has over one billion users across desktop and mobile. It’s only the second web browser to pass that usage milestone.
“According to the findings by the Atlas VPN team, 1,006,232,879 Internet users (19.16 percent of all Internet users) now use the Safari browser, making it the second browser with over a billion users,” an Atlas security researcher identified only as William S. writes in the announcement post. “Nevertheless, Google Chrome firmly remains at the top as the most popular browser.”
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It sure does: almost 3.4 billion people use Google Chrome worldwide, according to Atlas, giving that browser almost 65 percent usage share. Rounding out the top five, Microsoft Edge is in third place with 213 million users, Mozilla Firefox is fourth with 179 million users, and Samsung Internet (which is available only on mobile) is fifth with 150 million users.
Atlas arrived at its usage numbers by taking the latest StatCounter’s browser usage share percentages and converting them into numbers using the Internet World Stats Internet user metric.
Of course, the big change in the past year is that Edge usage has surpassed that of Firefox. Atlas credits Microsoft’s dirty tactics for this success.
“Since the release of Windows 11, Microsoft set it as the default browser on all devices and made it difficult for users to change to their preferred option,” William S. notes. “Therefore, Edge received a significant increase in its userbase.”