Microsoft When it comes to browsers on desktop PCs, it has surpassed one of its major rivals, Apple. Web analytics service StatCounter, according to the latest report from Microsoft Browser Edge It is now the second most used desktop web browser worldwide, second only to Google Chrome. according to the report, microsoft edge It is now used on 9.65% of desktops worldwide, just ahead of Apple’s Safari with a 9.57% market share. The data also shows that Google Chrome Still holds the largest market share with 67.26% users. Edge has seen significant growth since the launch of the new Windows OS.
In February, we reported that Edge was shutting down on Safari and shared by StatCounter with data from March. Edge appears to have benefited from Mozilla Firefox’s declining market share, which has fallen from 9.18 percent to 7.57 percent. Although Edge now has the second largest market share, it still lags far behind Google Chrome. There’s no denying that Microsoft’s move to improve its browser using Chromium is paying off.
with the launch of windows 11Microsoft changed the way users assign default apps. On the new operating system, users will have to set the default apps according to the type of file or link type instead of a single switch. This means that in order to change the default browser, users had to change the default file types for FTP, HTTPS, HTTP, HTML, HTM, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT and XHTML. However, the tech giant made it easy to change the default web browser with the latest update. For this, Google openly criticized Microsoft.
Windows 11 build 22000.593, however, makes it easier for users to change their default browser. The operating system now gets a dedicated button in the Control Panel that allows users to choose the default browser of their choice. The change was first noticed by reverse engineer Rafael Rivera in the Dev Channel in Windows 11 Build 22509. This is an optional update.