Most Popular Web Browsers 1992 - 2024
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2024
- This is an update to this popular video with additional browsers and information. It starts with the second web browser ever created, Line Mode, and includes the most popular browsers from those first few years. Note that no browser ever really drops to zero since there's always a hobbyist trying to use it. Data for the first half of the video is sourced from Wikipedia and many articles from that time while the data for the second half of the video comes from StatCounter.
Here's the text about the first browsers in the video:
1992, **Line Mode**, Second web browser ever created
1992, **MacWWW**, First Mac web browser
1992, **ViolaWWW**, First browser to support scripting and stylesheets
1993, **Mosaic**, First to be widely available on most OS
1993, **Cello**, First Windows web browser
1994, **Lynx**, Oldest web browser still maintained today
1995, **Netscape**, Launched at $49 with a 90 day trial
1995, **IE**, Launched as part of Windows 95
1996, **Opera**, Launched to the public as trialware
1997, **Netscape**, Held 70% of the market but IE being part of Windows was gaining fast
1998, **Netscape**, Acquired by America Online for $4.2 billion
1999, **IE**, Microsoft was taken to court for violating antitrust laws
2000, **Netscape**, Version 6 launched with AOL Instant Messenger
2001, **IE**, Microsoft was found guilty of unlawful monopolization and decided to split IE from Windows
2002, *IE**, Crowned the official winner of the first browser war
So anyway, what is your favorite browser? - Věda a technologie
Back in the day, IE was great for downloading Firefox
IE was actually very good back in the day. Most of the innovations came from it. I don't know what happened, but then it went downhill.
Internet Exploder, the bane of web developpers world wide.
@@kiran9s Security flaws plagued IE back then. That’s also what indirectly killed Flash
@@georgeb3920
Internet Exploder made my day 😂
Yeah IE is the only Browser that just exited to download a better browser
I'll stay with Firefox, just like in the past 20 years.
Me too, I've been using Firefox since its name was Firebird/Phoneix.
Firefox is good but, Google Chrome has the fastest download speeds
Another vote for Firefox, and/or it's fork Waterfox. Also been using it since it was called Phoenix. Stick it to the big corps!
i just switched to librewolf with history, but it's still firefox without bloat. Chrome is a memory sucker
I've been using Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator Gold 3.xx. #VivaLaMozilla
I still use Firefox and will always use Firefox.
Firefox is crap, opera is better
@@megaknight4311And that's your opinion.
@@jeramii03 Yes
At least firefox doesn't send all of your data to the Chinese government 🙃
@@megaknight4311
Opera is spyware fyi
Happy to be one of the three percent. Long live Firefox! 🔥🔥🔥
The scary thing is how little actual choice there is right now. There is Chrome, Chromium-based Edge, Chromium-based Samsung Browser, Chromium-based Opera, Chromium-based Brave.
The only two non-Chromium browsers with over 1% of market share are Safari and Firefox.
This and very much.
So the market leading browsers were:
Until Q1 1992: Line Mode
Q2 1992-Q1 1993 ViolaWWW (3/4 year)
Q2 1993-Q2 1994 Mosaic (1+1/4 years)
Q3 1994-Q2 1998 Netscape (4 years)
Q3 1998-Q1 2012 Internet Explorer (13+3/4 years)
Q2 2012-present Chrome (12 years so far)
If Chrome is still leading the pack at the end of 2025 then it will tie with Internet Explorer's record duration for maket leading. If it's still leading by early summer 2026 then it will be the record holder. It definitely means that there is stagnation in the internet browser market, even before considering the point you made that many of the 'competitors' use the same kernel anyway.
I use brave
Unfortunately, nowadays, the web is pretty much based on Chromium... Microsoft itself has had to adapt, integrating the "enemy" into its browser
Actually don't worry; chromium is open source, which means the browser can just modify it to its needs,
But there are still lots of non-chromium browsers, like these forks of firefox:
waterfox
librewolf
GNU icecat
And non firefox too:
Gnome web/epiphany
Badwolf
Emacs web browser/eww!
And they're definitely worth a try, with features like optimized privacy compared to things like firefox.
Firefox as my main browser from since I got connected to the internet..
Its funny, Google went to court because Microsoft Monopoly in the browsers market, saying things like was not fair and so on. And now Google have the Monopoly, how ironic that is.
They claimed that Microsoft was intentionally making their products run poorly on Windows computers. Thus, they were trying to monopolize the browser market by squeezing out the competition. Chrome is just the most popular among users - thanks to the millions of Chromebooks used in schools. Big difference.
@@JohnZeeX Yeah great way to monopolise data and give to various advertisement and government agencies to use as they wish
@@JohnZeeX And now CZcams runs poorly on non Chrome browsers
@@JohnZeeX Apple has taken many pages from the book of Microsoft, it is being sued left and right for it's monopolistic tendancies. They make other products run worse on Apple. I know, I own an iPhone and Samsung Galaxy.
It's called... hypocrisy? :D
8:22 - Yandex browser: Oh, hi! Bye!
The only browser, which can translate videos and even with with different speakers. Show me this, american shit :D An d Yandex had this feature years ago.
Yandex is a great search engine for finding torrents so it gets a pass
@@sanktionus And it's working now, even better. It even has its own AI. The translation performed by Yandex turns out to be a two-voice voiceover. We mute the original soundtrack - so that it is audible, but does not interfere with perception - and superimpose a new one on it, with translation. Male voices are translated with a male voice, female voices with a female voice.
Internet Explorer & Win 7 are still used by many govt employees in India
This analytics is worldwide only
Internet explorer is not used anymore. It is mostly chrome or maybe firefox, although windows 7 is still used by government offices
@@RikTheEmperor its internet explorer. I too use it 💀
@@team3t769 भाई तू वेबसाइट्स कैसे चलाता है?😂
@@RikTheEmperor Ie newer was used the thing is even today there is some core browser inside windows located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer
I use Firefox since i first got a computer, and will continue to
Idk I'm just used to it
Brave is super underestimated.
Once you tried it, and you understand you don’t have to deal with ADs and cookies, you can’t turn back
I'll stay with Firefox, and also with Brave for no ads or scam Nice video you did good!🎉
My first one was Netscape. Then FF (until now).
Same here, although I occasionally use Chrome. Some Google stuff only runs properly on Chrome (and possibly Chrome-engined others, IDK)
@@klaasbil8459 Absolutely. Chrome for work, FF for relaxation :)
Netscape was great when it had the e mail with it
The legend is back with more
Mozilla Firefox 🦊 I use
I've tried many browsers over last decade but nothing can replace Firefox
OPera gx
I use brave on my phone coz it blocks all ads
Me
2010-2019 IE, chrome (no idea about privacy, very young)
2019-2022 Brave (started to care a little more)
2022-2023 Librewolf
2023-now Firefox with betterfox user.js
I've used Samsung internet in 2015-2017, then moved to Chrome 2017-2020 then to Firefox and still is my current browser, the best browser for me only downside it's not chromium based and it's a little slow
Arc is literally a revolution for web browsing.
I thought Opera is more popular. But looks like ADs about Opera are more popular than Opera itself.
yeah.😄
Opera is great with smartphones (personal experience)
Brave user here
same here
Same
Same
same
good guy
Mozilla Firefox ♥
That was a rather interesting video. Thank you for posting.
1. Vivaldi.
2. Firefox
All you need for sure! I wish Floorp had a few less bugs, since it's basically a mix of two
Used Chrome for years, Firefox before it. Transferred to Brave last year, with the added incentive of more privacy and built-in ad blockers I haven't looked back.
Firefox can be "hardened" to be as or even a bit more secure than Brave, but it takes a few minutes of altering settings from default and using addons. Brave is the best to run "as is".
Brave is just chrome but objectively better: less bloat and less tracking
@@barccy Yeah but brave is just easier and better for most people leaving the chrome empire
@@RoofusRoof19 Yeah, but Brave lacks Dark Reader addon. If Brave let me have my addons, I'd probably switch. I admit Brave is good.
@@atomicviking2497 brave supports all chrome addons. It's a chromium browser
Man, Chrome has almost 70% of the entire market share, and they're one of the most recent browsers! Great vid! I'm an Opera user here BTW.
It gets scarier when you realize that Edge, Samsung Browser, Opera and Brave are all based on Chromium. Not sure about the browsers below 1% market share, but out of these with at least 1%, the only "independent" ones are Safari and Firefox.
@@Eliastion I'ma getting scared now
Good luck on your chinese spyware browser :)
@@mical-9066 Lol. It can't be any worse than Google itself. 😆
Use brave instead its a one-click transfer for all ur bookmarks.etc and it doesn't spy on you
I know this isn't about rendering engines, but I was disappointed not to see the KDE browser Konqueror browser in there, even at a time when you were showing other browsers at 0%. In a sense, Konqueror did what its name said - it konquered. It was its KHTML rendering engine that became Webkit, and later Blink, used by nearly all today's major browsers except Firefox. Konqueror's role is therefore an important part of web history that shouldn't be forgotten.
Originally an MCSA Mosaic user, I moved to Netscape in 1995. I became a Konqueror user around 2001 when I moved to Mandrake Linux as my OS, and for a good few years after then, before moving to Firefox in more recent years as KDE got replaced by Gnome on my desktop. Although I'm now back on KDE, Firefox remains my main browser.
Loved Netscape back in the day, then went to Firefox and now Opera since 2015ish.... toyed with Brave and I pull out Lynx sometimes like a party trick, lol
I've tried to get Lynx to work just to try it out of curiosity, but I'm not good enough with computers to get it running.
@@DefaultFlame windows or linux?
@@jasonGamesMaster Windows.
I am in the process of learning Linux since Microsoft has lost the last tiny crumb of faith I had in them, but it's slow going.
So many new things to learn, so many wiki pages to read, so many tutorials to watch.
Edit: I actually finally made the leap to start because I wanted to mess around with local LLMs on my old gaming laptop, and it seemed like a good opportunity to start learning Linux too.
As a Brave user, I'm glad to see some numbers on how many people actually use it. I'm also partial to Vivaldi but looks like it doesn't have enough users to show up on the radar.
Brave is still underrated imo
Amazing that Lynx has been around so long. I don't use it much anymore, but used to when I had was in a shell and needed a text browser. It worked quite well.
Opera GX sitting in the corner:
I must say.. Team- Opera. You've "fight" well here.. amazing! I mean you have been tagging along for the ride almost from the beginning.
Impressive.. and pls, don't give up. Thanks.
same watching here on opera gx but sometimes use opera one
"I'm so pissed about the government and corporations selling my information and tracking me! Oh, what browser I use? I love Chrome!"
I liked before watching
Netscape's fast growth is impressive
Because it came out at the same time as normal people started getting online for the first time, and they all used Netscape, because it was on their ISP's installation disk.
Firefox!
I still prefer Firefox
Opera gx
@@Aiden_Gamez_4realzopera gx is so bad
@@FO0TMinecraftPVPikr its basically chinese goverment spyware
Brave user here. Imagine watching youtube videos without any ads... Not only youtube...
I use Firefox for years and I use Arc for a couple of months. I love those browsers
Favorite browser? I _REALLY_ miss Opera from the time it still used it's own Presto engine... nothing has come anywhere near what it was back in the day including the newer versions of Opera.
I recommend Vivaldi browser.
I am all for Firefox and Opera!
In my opinion:
1) all the people who ignore the difference between "web browser" and "search engine" use Chrome (EDIT: someone else uses it, too).
2) Safari is exclusive for Apple products.
3) all the people who are happy with the bare default on their computer use Edge (EDIT: someone else use it, too).
4) Firefox and Opera are for people who know computers.
Hey, I am NOT serious here ! 😅
Good thing you put that i am not serious, I mean I know computer science but use Edge. I use it because it actually has some features that I find interesting and helpful
I use Firefox and I don't know computers.
You are defination of Tell me you don't know shit without telling it
I get your point, but I think Chrome looked at Firefox and did something even better... Perhaps the Google brand also helped ;)
Edge is better than all of them, combined with bing, productivity levels gonna boom.
I started using arc for PC and iOS sync. Absolutely love it so far!
My favorite browsers
1: Opera GX
2: Microsoft Edge
3: Firefox (Thought about trying waterfox)
4: Brave
5: Vivaldi
I currently use Opera GX and i don't plan on switching, i know Opera GX is kind of controversial at the moment because its owned by a Chinese company but at this point, everything is owned by China.
Love Edging on Edge: it just works
i think microsoft might just consider changing that name
Is it possible that Chromium-based browsers such as Vivaldi are included in Chrome? I was expecting a few percentages for Vivaldi tbh
probably not due to brave and edge both being chromium based and being included separately
a. Vivaldi is quite small in user base
b. You forget, that around 40% of the Chrome users are android smartphones. Vivaldi and many other chromium browsers only exist for Windows and Linux
Vivaldi is very difficult to track, unlike Chrome and Edge that use a unique user agent string and Brave that uses navigation.brave lines in their javascript code. So technically, Vivaldi's secrecy is one of its features. It could be anything, especially since you can change the Chrome user agent to Firefox/Edge/Vivaldi/no brand in the settings
@@acmenipponairvivaldi also available on android
@@acmenipponair Vivaldi has 5 million downloads in Google Play Store.
Loved Neoplanet ... surprised it didn't make it to the list here, unless I blinked and missed it.
In my country the Internet Exploder was always a browser to download other browsers. IE was used only in companies and not in all.
When manifest v3 comes out and kills browser add-ons like ad-blockers, It will be interesting to see if there is a spike to Safari and Firefox
Oh there will be
Especially now google anti Adblock has been attracting more attention to ad blockers
I've yet to see any reason to stop using Firefox but my mind could be changed.
No cambies, es el mejor y más seguro.
I have the original Netscape Navigator 1.0 floppy install disks in my home desk. I wonder if it would run with Windows 11? It probably would not be able to display modern web pages. Today, I use Firefox.
Opera for usual web browsing and working. Samsung Internet for video playing provided with useful features.
how can firefox get that low when most people i talk to still use it?
I think it's mainly geeks
Maybe you live in the bubble.
@@Xyronium i love my bubble
Same here - I can't really belive that FF numbers. My friends are not all nerds, most of them use FF / Chrome (50/50) if they care for something else than edge, that comes with the system or are apple user with the forced webkit / safari.
Using Vivaldi because :
- Opera = Chinese now
- Chrome = no privacy
I use Vivaldi too
Still Chromium-based
you silly, EVERYTHING IS CHROME IN THE FUTURE!
@@theguythatdoesthatthing no privacy = not for me
Vivaldi is not good choice for privacy. Better use Brave and LibreWolf. And using jest one browser for everything is bad for privacy at all. Also don't forget about your mobile - it is event more difficult on smartphones.
I've been in the tech industry for many years and I've used nearly every browser on this list. At the end of the day, after using going from Firefox to Chrome to Brave. I ended up on Edge. It's very customizable with full chrome extension support. It's extremely fast and light. I've officially stopped browser hopping. On my Linux machines I still use Brave.
Edge is great, I always suggest people at least try it. It made many things easier and faster, which I appreciated. I'm currently using both Edge and Vivaldi for their own specific uses on PC, and Samsung Internet on mobile.
Agree I like edge coz it's customisable
Glad to see Samsung Internet on here. I used chrome forever until i gave Samsung Internet a try. I wish i tried it sooner... Dark mode and ad blocker makes the experience so much better.
my favorite browser is Opera GX it looks really great for computers with bad processors and a low amount of ram
Vivaldi for sure!
Too bad it hasn't made it into the top ten yet though.
Vivaldi is very bad at blocking ads
Most important feature that makes me stick with Firefox; it take screenshots from any part of the webpage, or from any PDF document opened with Firefox
I used Opera as a default browser since 2005.
Now Brave is my only pc/phone browser since 2020.
Integrated ad-blocker and background media player is all I can ask for.
Vivaldi is the Best!
Former IE, Firefox user ; I now use Opera GX since more than a year but I will move to Edge soon (probably), since my PC isn't powerful and slowly getting old and slower
Firefox is faster than opera and edge. Lol what?
@@mazarinee I don't understand why you are mentionning speed, as I didn't mention it myself
@@Lyothere "my pc is getting older and slower"
@@mazarinee This statement isn't linked to browser speed. I mean by this that it's harder for my computer to run ressource-hungry softwares.
@@Lyothere yup
You forgot Gopher from 1991. Yes, before the "World Wide Web", but kind of a Web Browser.
I'm more of the mixed type in windows for example i use edge for general activities like bank, shopping online, general search, parcel track, chrome for fanfiction and fan-art, firefox for school online, opera gx for gaming, brave for youtube, yandex for alternative searchers, for android the same due the synchronization.
Brave. Same as Chrome, but with built in add blocking. Also the logo is nice.
My favorite browser:
1. Vivaldi
2. DuckDuckGo
3. Firefox
4. Libre Wolf
Vivaldi is brilliant! It's based on Chrome, but comes with loads more extra helpful features
@@jameskvo Its customisability is the most extensive of all.
duckduckgo is a search engine, not a browser
@@colefromwiisports They have a browser.
Nice to meet a fellow member of the Wolf pack!
I use:
- Edge for work
- Brave for browsing magazines
- Chrome for free time (with adblocks)
- Firefox for _orn (with adblocks)
I am using Edge for the last two years. I found it quite comfortable.
I am a Mac user and Safari is just ❤
It just fits in so well. I wish safari extensions worked on gnome web (another webkit browser)
... puro marketing, hasta repites un slogan
I use Arc....
Netscape my first browser.
I don't see Mozilla there. Not Mozilla Firefox, but the Mozilla Suite, the bridge beteen Netscape and the Firefox/Thunderbird combo. Also, Netscape was a later iteration of Mosaic, Mozilla was the FOSS version of Netscape (forking it from BEFORE AOL acquisition), and Firefox is a spin off from the Mozilla Suite. And Seamonkey is now the continuation of the Mozilla Suite. It's a long(ish) tradition by now....
Safari for life !!!
Microsoft Edge ❤🔥
real
Nahhhh
@@IKER1000sYT Edge is only for Microsoft users. Safari for macOS users. Opera GX for androidOS
@@Khalil-S09 what are you on? Brave and firefox are avaible for everything
@@IKER1000sYT But I'm using windowsOS so recommends using Microsoft Edge which has more features like copilot. taskbar weather. daily wallpaer changer. background video. casual games. many rows to pin websites. fast chromium technology with full extention pack.Require Microsoft account for office 365 and microsoft store apps and games.optimized for ram. best vpn. new private browsing and many more that not in another third paarty browser.
wow the memories! Lynx on HP-UX was my first browsing experience in 1993...and how cool it was to pull down a high resolution (640x480) photo off NASA's website!
opera user since 2013 here, im surprised it isnt higher given all the marketing it got over the past few years
Brave is the best and safest browsers ever!!!
👇
laughing in Firefox secure fork
Tor…
no is ie and you you are gay
"safest" can likely be argued against.
Firefox for me all the way. I feel my browsing is more secure.
Opera. Still the best and always a gamechanger in technology.
Thanks but why is there no 2024 data?
Brave will be the biggest one 💯
i refuse to use chrome
Yeah lol it's very mid
from 1995 to present opera gx still one of the top 10 like top 10 for over 29 years
Has any one noticed that opera browser is still a big market share browser since 1995 Q1?
Opera ❤
let's be honest ,all of them are nothing compared to Google Chrome
Safari is very good
Firefox is more customizable, private and about as secure as Chrome. In my experience, Firefox runs faster and uses less resources.
Only when it comes to popularity
Is this for the US or worldwide?
The real Opera died in 2013 when Presto was abandoned. There should be a different Icon for the old Opera. I expected Vivaldi to become a new independent browser... but it is also Chromium-based. Sadly we have just two choices Chromium (or forks) and Firefox (or forks). Firefox is owned by Mozilla - a company that get some money from Google. In fact it is already monopoly with a mock competitor.
Opera should also be installed for many, it is strange that such a low percentage
I've been using Microsoft Edge for 1 year already when I bought my laptop last year. At first, I do not wanna switch and make it my default browser but I tried. Guess what? I also installed Microsoft Edge on my new phone I bought last month since I find it more useful, and convenient than Google Chrome. I just wish everyone would see how many features that Edge can offer.
what music is this video ?
I used Opera until the version 12. After that i used both Firefox and Chrome but Chrome was somehow better for me that time.
For now I'm still using Chrome on all of my devices.
I've been using Arc for the past year and haven't looked back at any other browser since.
As soon as I knew about Chrome, I used that instead of IE. Now, I have a mixture: Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera (specifically Opera GX), Edge, Epic and Tor. The latter two have built in proxies or VPNs.
Well, in the early beginning Omniweb is missing. It was the browser on NeXT where Tim Barnes Lee invented the WWW.
i switched to arc, glad to be in the windows beta !
Are you sure that FF only has 3-4 percent coverage in the last years? In my personal environment it's more like 40% FF, 40% Chrome, 20% Apple Users (forced Safari / Webkit). Hard to believe that there are (almost) as much Opera Users as FF Users... - I did not even know, that it is still around.
I would say edge for it copilot AI, and Brave for backup, and Firefox for browsing
I was very surprised by the IE popularity because everyone knows that it was only needs for another browser downloading.
I'm not sure it's by wars it's more by which one you prefer to browse through on the most
I had started my online experience with Firefox but today, due to Edge's best performances, Edge is my main browser💪🏻
Edge es de Micro$oft, Firefox es libre (y seguro)
Edge for the win 👏
What about Duck Duck Go,?
Does it was not have a significant following, or is it not considered a standalone browser?
it's insane how internet explorer was so dominant for so long, then chrome came and ruined everything.
I think I'm the only user that uses Microsoft Edge as the main browser.
Lots of people are commenting they use it 😉 I use it too
I use it too