Most Popular Web Browsers 1992 - 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 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? - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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 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
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.
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
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 TH-cam 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
Happy to be one of the three percent. Long live Firefox! 🔥🔥🔥
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
Firefox as my main browser from since I got connected to the internet..
I still prefer Firefox
Opera gx
@@Aiden_Gamez_4realzopera gx is so bad
Firefox for me all the way. I feel my browsing is more secure.
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 use Firefox since i first got a computer, and will continue to
Idk I'm just used to it
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 thought Opera is more popular. But looks like ADs about Opera are more popular than Opera itself.
Brave user here
same here
Same
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good guy
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
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
Mozilla Firefox 🦊 I use
The legend is back with more
Brave is the best and safest browsers ever!!!
👇
laughing in Firefox secure fork
Tor…
Mozilla Firefox ♥
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
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.
my favorite browser is Opera GX it looks really great for computers with bad processors and a low amount of ram
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
I'll stay with Firefox, and also with Brave for no ads or scam Nice video you did good!🎉
"I'm so pissed about the government and corporations selling my information and tracking me! Oh, what browser I use? I love Chrome!"
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 use Firefox for years and I use Arc for a couple of months. I love those browsers
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
Brave will be the biggest one 💯
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
Loved Neoplanet ... surprised it didn't make it to the list here, unless I blinked and missed it.
Firefox!
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Google Chrome (and Chromium in general) is just the new IE. A big company pushes their browser into everyone's faces, everyone starts using it because it was better than what was there before, it starts stagnating and bad decisions start to be made, and no one wants to switch because some websites only work with that browser.
Opera for usual web browsing and working. Samsung Internet for video playing provided with useful features.
from 1995 to present opera gx still one of the top 10 like top 10 for over 29 years
1 Firefox
2 Edge
3 Opera
Vivaldi is the Best!
I'm not sure it's by wars it's more by which one you prefer to browse through on the most
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.
Opera should also be installed for many, it is strange that such a low percentage
I liked before watching
I would say edge for it copilot AI, and Brave for backup, and Firefox for browsing
The name of music plz
Vivaldi for sure!
Too bad it hasn't made it into the top ten yet though.
Vivaldi is very bad at blocking ads
Netscape's fast growth is impressive
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!
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
I use Arc for both Mac and Windows.
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.
in version 19 of opera üork space features üere introduced but group tabs are more recent not v19
We all used IE in my childhood, now I like QQ browser and chrome
In my country the Internet Exploder was always a browser to download other browsers. IE was used only in companies and not in all.
Grand job of the Opera Web Browser; since 1996
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....
Firefox is not missing from my computer since i've got my first computer. That's over 18 years ago .
Surprised you didn't include Mozilla, which is what eventually became Firefox after it was forked.
Netscape my first browser.
What is the name of this sound?
Music
What about Duck Duck Go,?
Does it was not have a significant following, or is it not considered a standalone browser?
Firefox, Opera, Brave
The best 3 in my opinion
Extraordinaries web Browser
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!
Love Edging on Edge: it just works
i think microsoft might just consider changing that name
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
it honestly surprised me to see that brave has almost less than 1% of the market share.
I was very surprised by the IE popularity because everyone knows that it was only needs for another browser downloading.
Stay strong Firefox...
Brave. Same as Chrome, but with built in add blocking. Also the logo is nice.
Opera - best for PC, Chrome - best for android
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 switched to arc, glad to be in the windows beta !
where are all of the chinese web browsers ?
the android market is hug in China with more devices (like mobile phones) than India.
India has a shed load of mobile phones as well so what web browsers are they using ?
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 👏
Isnt the music is from the stick man game
IE firefox and chrome is what I use, but opera was top on my low edged phone back in the time 15-20 years ago as it made files to be transferred less because of compression which I needed to not to pay too much to the isp because of heavy data need....
原來chrome是2008年才出現
I started with Internet Explorer, then Firefox, then Chrome, now I use Edge.
Chrome is my main web browser since it came out, through ups and downs.
The Firefox is stable, beautiful and it has got look like app store system. That is add -one.
Firefox is only 3% ? I wish it was more popular... other than lack of HDR support, which should be standard in 2024, it is almost perfect.
Firefox user here
Watching this on Firefox. Right now, FF's market share is looking pretty dismal. But as long as Mozilla is still making the browser and doing a good job of it, I'm happy.
As for Chrome. It's very hard to see how Google will ever be dethroned. But I once thought that about Microsoft and IE, so who knows.
Opera desde el 2005 aunque hoy en día da un poco lo mismo la mayoría está basado en Chromium sacando a Firefox por supuesto. He probado las últimas versiones de Firefox lo han mejorado muchísimo en verdad ya no consume tanta ram como antaño y vuela! También lo tengo instalado por cierto!
Saludos
Se ve que sabes de informática; estoy utilizando también al navegador que es la esencia base de los navegadores «Chromium» (por supuesto en GNU-Linux)
For me, I like Opera then Chrome.
Usaba microsoft Edge pero ultimamente las paginas se quedaban colgeladas
why wasn't Yahoo, or Ask Jeeves mentioned?
I’m still using IE 11 with windows 10 iot ltsb 1507……on an old pc /w 11400f + 64gb ddr4 crusial ballistix + quadro k4200
2:43
"Early 2000's... MS was found guilty of unlawful monopolization and decided to split IE from Win."
Seems like MS is need of a reminder. The more things change, the more they remain the same. And Google, too.
Being on top doesn't mean you're the best. Both Chrome and IE give the meaning for it.
Actually chrome is not that bad, it's the standard for almost everybody, but man. Firefox is way better, and despite of being chromium based, I do prefer a lot Brave than all of the others. Brave is light, privacy, and has lots of cool features.
Gosto muito do FireFox e uso desde o 4, mas está difícil ficar com ele da forma que a Mozilla está conduzindo.