China: web traffic share of main browsers 2024 | Statista (2024)

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Market share (global)

As of August 2024, Google's Chrome is the leading internet browser in the world with a global market share of 65.18%. In other words, nearly two-thirds of the global population uses Chrome to browse the internet. Apple's Safari is in second place with 18.55%, nearly 47 percentage points behind.

Market share (global)

As of August 2024, Google's Chrome is the leading internet browser in the world with a global market share of 65.18%. In other words, nearly two-thirds of the global population uses Chrome to browse the internet. Apple's Safari is in second place with 18.55%, nearly 47 percentage points behind.

China's large population also means it has the greatest number of internet users in the world. Although modest, China's internet penetration surpasses the global average. The World Bank reports that in 2017, the global internet penetration rate was 48.6 percent, compared to 54.3 percent in China.

The most-used browser is Google Chrome, with a 64% global market share on all devices, followed by Safari with 19%.

Speed: Chrome is rated as the fastest browser by benchmark tests. Extensions: Google Chrome has the most extensive library of extensions of all other browsers. Support and updates: Google releases patches days or even hours after discovering browser vulnerabilities.

Baidu is China's largest and most widely used search engine, much like Google in the U.S.

As of December 2024, 1.09 billion (77.5% of the country's total population) use internet in China.

Are VPNs in China illegal? Short answer: VPNs are not illegal in China, but their use is heavily restricted. Long answer: Using a VPN in China is not officially illegal. China allows VPN providers to operate as long as they cooperate with the state, which defeats the privacy purpose of having a VPN in the first place.

Will Firefox be discontinued? ›

Is Firefox browser dead? Not yet, but eventually it's gonna die. It's loosing the market share every year and more people are moving away for various reasons. Even Germany, one of a few countries that had the majority of Firefox users, switched to Chrome.

Recent News. Chrome, an Internet browser released by Google, Inc., a major American search engine company, in 2008. By 2013 Chrome had become the dominant browser, surpassing Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox in popularity.

As of February 2024, the Google Chrome browser accounted for 66 percent of global market share for internet browsers. Apple's Safari browser was the second most popular internet browser around the world, accounting for 18 percent of market share.

As of the end of 2023, Opera Software was 72.4% owned by Kunlun, a Chinese public company, making it a subsidiary of that company. Opera CEO James Yahui Zhou is a controlling shareholder in Kunlun.

The Opera browser is safe. While Opera was hacked in 2013 via an old security certificate, no user data was compromised.

The most popular current browsers are Google Chrome, Apple's Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.

Edge is slightly safer than Chrome.

It provides better anti-tracking protection and collects less data than Chrome. Google is notorious for collecting and storing browsing history, personal information, and how you use the browser.

Brave is actually far better on Android than Chrome is. Brave blocks ads and trackers, meaning it runs much more efficiently than Chrome, especially on mobile devices. Brave for Android will save you mobile data, bandwidth, and battery life compared to Chrome.