The best web browsers for 2020
Your guide to the best web browsers to use for PCs, phones and tablets
What's the most popular web browser?
When you first turn on a new Windows 10 PC or laptop the only route you'll initially have to the internet is via Microsoft’s Edge web browser or Internet Explorer.
It's the same with an iPhone or Android device, although here the defaults are usually Safari on iOS and Google Chrome on Android.
But regardless of which phone you use, there are a number of great alternative web browsers available which you'll find outlined in great detail if you read our separate guide to the best mobile browsers (You can also try a different search engine too).
The good news is that you can download as many browsers as you like, either using the one on your PC or laptop already, or the app store on your phone or tablet. Find out how to change your default browser.
And thanks to W3Counter’s Browser Share stats for December 2019, you can see which are currently the most popular:
Google Chrome, then, is by far the most used browser, accounting for more than half of all web traffic, followed by Safari in a distant second place. The combined IE & Edge comes in third, with Firefox in fourth. Opera is fifth with less than four percent of global web traffic.
Google's lead isn't too surprising, but the fact it continues to dominate may have something to do with the changes introduced back in February 2018 that saw Google by default blocking ads that violate the Coalition for Better Ads standards. That means - without your input - full-page and countdown ads, as well as those that autoplay sound and video, are removed. This makes for a better overall user experience and speeds up page loading time.
With new features such as a Dark Mode, which can save battery on laptops but also reduce eye strain, Chrome is unlikely to be usurped.
Firefox has lost its previous position over IE and Edge, and is currently the fourth most-popular browser. You can read more about it in our Chrome vs Firefox comparison.
Also, Microsoft has rebuilt its Edge browser using Chromium (the open source version of Google's Chrome browser) which is twice as fast as the old Edge and allows you to use Chrome extensions. However, it's hard to believe that any Chrome users will switch to it as there's simply not enough of an incentive to do so.
In fact, the only real advantage - and this is really for businesses - is that the new Edge can load old websites in 'IE mode' which means they don't have to run ancient versions of Internet Explorer.
Here's how it breaks down into the Top 10 browsers, based on their version numbers. Given that Windows 7 is now end of life, it's surprising to see IE 11 still commanding 2.3% of all web traffic.
That is likely to decline as people upgrade to Windows 10 once they're sufficiently nagged about it being unsafe to continue using Windows 7.
Which is the best web browser?
You can’t always believe statistics, and not all surveys agree. StatCounter, for example, says Chrome has a 64% share and puts Samsung's web browser in fourth place.
Just because more people use a certain browser, that doesn't make it the ‘best'. It's just one measure, and there are others of course.
Previously we reviewed web browsers, benchmarking them for speed and rating them on features. The problem with that approach was that all of these browsers are updated constantly, meaning that those reviews quickly became outdated. And that’s why we’re not offering benchmark results here.
Source : https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/
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