Chrome has devoured 71% of the browser market, leaving crumbs for the rest.

My first reaction upon seeing this pie chart: this isn’t just market share; it looks like one person has wiped the entire table clean.

As of November 2025, Chrome holds a staggering 71.22% of the market.

That’s seven out of ten. For every ten people who open a browser globally, seven are using Chrome.

The remaining less than thirty percent is being fought over by a group of “others”: Safari at 14.35%, Edge at 4.98%, and then a handful of browsers with less than 2%—Samsung Internet at 2.3%, Opera at 1.89%, and Firefox at 1.86%.

Firefox at 1.86%—I want to highlight this number specifically. A decade ago, Firefox was a symbol of internet freedom, a tool for geeks to challenge the IE monopoly, with market share exceeding 30%. Now? It’s at 1.86%, even lower than the browser that comes pre-installed on Samsung phones.

Honestly, seeing that number is a bit disheartening.

But Chrome’s monopoly is far more daunting than IE’s ever was.

Why? Because IE relied on Windows bundling and users’ reluctance to switch. Chrome, on the other hand, is popular because it truly works well, backed by the entire Google ecosystem.

Your Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, YouTube, and Google Search—all of these have the best experience on Chrome. It’s not that you can’t switch; it’s that everything else feels clunky in comparison.

This isn’t just bundling; it’s ecological hostage-taking. More advanced, and much harder to escape.

Don’t be too impressed with Safari’s 14.35%—that number is almost entirely from iPhone and Mac users. Apple’s default browser is Safari, and all browsers on iOS must use Safari’s WebKit as their underlying engine.

In plain terms: Safari’s share isn’t chosen by users; it’s chosen for them by Apple.

Edge’s situation is even worse. Microsoft ditched its own engine and rebuilt Edge using Chrome’s core, pouring massive resources into promotion, even bombarding you with pop-ups in Windows updates to get you to use it. And the result? Just 4.98%.

Not even Microsoft’s own father figure could save it, illustrating just how formidable Chrome’s wall is.

However, we must acknowledge a reality: browsers themselves are becoming less significant.

More and more applications are turning into standalone apps. You watch short videos on Douyin, chat on WeChat, shop on Taobao. The role of browsers on mobile is steadily diminishing. Chrome’s dominance might be over a shrinking battlefield.

The real war is no longer in browsers; it’s at the AI frontier.

As AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity start to replace the traditional browser + search engine combo, how long can Chrome hold onto its 71%?

That’s the question keeping Google up at night.

Monopolies are never broken by competitors.

They’re phased out by the next era.

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