Google Chrome Statistics 2026
By Axis Intelligence Research
Co-author: Alex Rivera | Last updated: July 18, 2026 | License: CC BY 4.0
Google Chrome holds 69.65% of the global browser market across all platforms as of June 2026, according to StatCounter GlobalStats — commanding more share than its five nearest rivals combined. Chrome 150 is the current stable release; the browser’s release cadence accelerates to two-week cycles starting September 8, 2026.
Quick Answer: What Is Chrome’s Market Share in 2026?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome controls 69.65% of global browser sessions across desktop, mobile, and tablet. On desktop alone, Chrome commands 72.24%; on mobile, 67.97%. The browser runs on roughly 3.83 billion devices worldwide. North America is Chrome’s weakest major region at 54.01%, where iOS-driven Safari competition is strongest; South America is its strongest at approximately 78–79%.
Key Findings
- According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome controls 69.65% of global browser sessions across all device types — more than four times the share of its closest competitor, Safari, at 15.31%.
- Axis Intelligence Research calculates that Chrome’s combined share (69.65%) exceeds the sum of its five nearest rivals by 42.11 percentage points — Safari (15.31%) + Edge (5.21%) + Firefox (3.33%) + Samsung Internet (1.95%) + Opera (1.74%) = 27.54% combined; 69.65 − 27.54 = 42.11 pp — using StatCounter GlobalStats June 2026 data. This composite measure of browser market concentration is not published by any single data provider.
- According to the Chrome Releases Blog (Google, June 30, 2026), Chrome 150 is the current stable desktop release, with 433 security fixes in this version; the two-week release cycle begins September 8, 2026 with Chrome 153.
- According to Chrome-Stats (May 2026), the Chrome Web Store hosts 251,488 extensions, themes, and apps, with 90.11% of listings having fewer than 1,000 active users — illustrating a vast but highly concentrated ecosystem.
- According to StatCounter GlobalStats (May 2026), Chrome holds only 54.01% in North America — its lowest share among major world regions — compared to 78–79% in South America, revealing a 24–25 percentage point gap driven by iOS device penetration in high-income English-speaking markets.
How Many People Use Google Chrome in 2026?
Chrome reached an estimated 3.83 billion users worldwide in 2026, according to Backlinko analysis of StatCounter market share data combined with ITU global internet user figures. That is up from 3.06 billion in 2020 — a gain of 770 million users in six years, or roughly 25% cumulative growth over the period.
The trajectory is worth examining closely. Chrome did not gain these users because it got dramatically better. It won them through the expansion of global internet access on Android, where Chrome ships as the default browser. Of the five-plus billion internet users today, Chrome’s rate of capture outside iOS ecosystems remains near-total in most markets. The iPhone-heavy markets of North America and Oceania are the exceptions.
The Google Play Store milestone tells the story clearly: Chrome passed 10 billion lifetime downloads on Google Play in December 2021, making it one of only 17 apps to reach that threshold — and 14 of the other 16 are also Google products. That distribution lock-in is precisely what the U.S. Department of Justice cited when seeking structural remedies in the Google antitrust case (see antitrust section below).
What Is Chrome’s Global Browser Market Share?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats, Chrome held 69.65% of global browser sessions in June 2026, measured across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms. The panel is drawn from over 3 billion monthly page views tracked through StatCounter’s network.
Different measurement panels produce different numbers, and readers comparing across sources should understand why. Cloudflare Radar, which filters bot traffic from its measurement, reported Chrome at 68.1% of human-only web traffic in June 2026. W3Counter’s sample of smaller independent sites runs higher than StatCounter’s figure. None of these panels are wrong — they measure different slices of the internet, which is why any two reports on the same month can differ by several points. StatCounter, with its breadth and historical consistency, is the standard Axis Intelligence Research uses as the primary tracking baseline across this article.
Safari is the only other browser in double digits, at 15.31% globally. Edge sits at 5.21%, Firefox at 3.33%, Samsung Internet at 1.95%, and Opera at 1.74%.
Global Browser Market Share Snapshot (June 2026)
| Browser | All-Device Share | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome | 69.65% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
| Safari | 15.31% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
| Edge | 5.21% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
| Firefox | 3.33% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
| Samsung Internet | 1.95% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
| Opera | 1.74% | StatCounter GlobalStats |
Source: StatCounter GlobalStats, June 2026. Figures retrieved July 2026.
Chrome Market Share by Device Type (June 2026)
Chrome’s performance varies meaningfully by device type. Desktop is its strongest platform; mobile is where Safari competes hardest through iOS.
| Device Type | Chrome Share | Nearest Competitor | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop | 72.24% | Edge (10.45%) | StatCounter GlobalStats, June 2026 |
| Mobile | 67.97% | Safari (24.07%) | StatCounter GlobalStats, June 2026 |
| Tablet | 50.15% | Safari (31.22%) | Backlinko/StatCounter, 2025 data |
The tablet figure is from Backlinko’s 2025 dataset; June 2026 tablet figures were not separately confirmed from StatCounter’s direct panel at time of publication.
Alex Rivera: The tablet split is the number that should trouble anyone building responsive web products. At 50/31 Chrome-to-Safari on tablet, you are essentially testing two different browsers on a device category that many companies still treat as an afterthought. The mobile split (68/24) is more forgiving — but “more forgiving” still means one in four mobile sessions runs on a WebKit engine that Chrome developers routinely undertest.
What Is Chrome’s Browser Market Share by Region?
The regional picture is where Chrome’s story gets genuinely interesting — and where developers and marketers who use the global average as their working assumption go wrong.
Chrome Market Share by Region (Mid-2026)
| Region | Chrome Share | Source & As-of Date |
|---|---|---|
| South America | ~78–79% | Multiple sources citing StatCounter; DemandSage/StatCounter |
| Africa | ~75–76% | StatCounter-sourced estimates |
| Asia | ~70–72% | StatCounter-sourced estimates |
| Global (all devices) | 69.65% | StatCounter GlobalStats, June 2026 |
| Europe | 62.69% | StatCounter GlobalStats, June 2026 |
| North America | 54.01% | StatCounter GlobalStats, May 2026 |
Note: South America, Africa, and Asia figures are drawn from multi-source aggregations that cite StatCounter; they are directionally consistent with the StatCounter panel but were not directly confirmed from StatCounter’s live regional pages this session. The global, Europe, and North America figures were confirmed directly from StatCounter’s fetched pages.
Europe at 62.69% is the most policy-affected market. The EU’s Digital Markets Act enforcement against Apple began in March 2024; by April 2026, Safari’s iOS share in the EU had declined meaningfully as Apple was required to offer browser-choice screens to EU iPhone users. Our iPhone vs Android market share page covers the DMA enforcement impact on Safari in depth, noting that StatCounter recorded Chrome on iOS at 13.1% in the EU — the first time Chrome had meaningfully broken into Safari’s iOS stronghold on that continent.
North America’s 54.01% is the single most important regional figure for U.S.-facing developers and advertisers. Safari accounts for approximately 29.2% of North American browser sessions, concentrated in iOS and macOS users. Building for “the web” in the U.S. means building for two distinct rendering engines in practice, not one.
Axis Intelligence Research — Chrome Regional Dominance Gap (CRDG™)
Axis Intelligence Research introduces the Chrome Regional Dominance Gap (CRDG™) as an original composite metric measuring how far each region’s Chrome share deviates from the global average.
Formula:
CRDG = Regional Chrome Share − Global Chrome Share (69.65%, June 2026)
A positive CRDG indicates above-average Chrome dominance; a negative value indicates below-average penetration.
| Region | Chrome Share | CRDG™ | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| South America | 78.5%* | +8.85 | Strong Chrome territory; Android-dominant market |
| Africa | 75.5%* | +5.85 | High Chrome penetration via Android data plans |
| Asia | 71.0%* | +1.35 | Near-global average; heterogeneous device mix |
| Global | 69.65% | 0.00 | Baseline |
| Europe | 62.69% | −6.96 | DMA enforcement + stronger Firefox/Edge presence |
| North America | 54.01% | −15.64 | iOS-heavy market; Safari competes hardest here |
*South America, Africa, and Asia shares are cited from StatCounter-sourced aggregate data; CRDG calculations are Axis Intelligence Research estimates using those figures as inputs. All CRDG readings are as of mid-2026.
CRDG™ v1.0 — first published July 18, 2026 by Axis Intelligence Research. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Formula and inputs disclosed above. Formula is versioned; any change to weighting will be re-baselined transparently.
The CRDG makes explicit what the global average obscures: North America is an outlier in Chrome’s favor by global standards, but an underperformer within Chrome’s own global footprint. A campaign optimized for the global average is miscalibrated for every major region.
What Is Chrome’s Market Share in the United States?
Chrome holds 50.03% of the U.S. browser market across all device types, according to Backlinko analysis of StatCounter GlobalStats data (as of mid-2026 data). This is notably lower than Chrome’s global figure of 69.65% — a gap of roughly 19.6 percentage points driven entirely by Apple’s iOS and macOS penetration in the American market.
On U.S. desktop, Chrome leads at 60.47%, with Edge second at 14.71% and Safari third at 12.38%. On U.S. mobile, Safari leads at 54.69%, with Chrome second at 38.18%. The reversal between desktop and mobile is the defining feature of the U.S. browser market: the same user who opens Chrome on their laptop is more likely than not browsing Safari on their iPhone.
U.S. Browser Market Share (2026)
| Device | Chrome | Safari | Edge | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Devices | 50.03% | ~31.86% | — | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| Desktop | 60.47% | 12.38% | 14.71% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| Mobile | 38.18% | 54.69% | — | Backlinko/StatCounter |
Source: Backlinko, citing StatCounter GlobalStats, mid-2026 data (published May 15, 2026).
The U.S. mobile split is the number that catches product teams off guard when they look at it for the first time. Safari at 55% of American mobile browsing — in 2026, with Chrome at 68% globally on mobile — reflects how completely Apple’s ecosystem reshapes the U.S. competitive landscape. For a company building a mobile web product targeting American consumers, the testing priority order is inverted from the global standard: Safari first, Chrome second.
How Has Chrome’s Market Share Changed Over Time?
Chrome launched in September 2008, initially for Windows only. By mid-2012 it had overtaken Firefox and Internet Explorer to become the world’s most-used browser. The table below draws from Backlinko’s longitudinal StatCounter data series, which is the most consistent publicly available annual dataset.
Chrome Global Market Share (All Devices, Annual)
| Year | Chrome Share | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29.3% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2015 | 44.87% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2018 | 59.12% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2020 | 64.6% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2022 | 64.78% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2023 | 63.87% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2024 | 65.82% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2025 | 68.86% | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| 2026 (partial) | 65.02%* | Backlinko/StatCounter |
| June 2026 | 69.65% | StatCounter GlobalStats (direct fetch) |
*The 65.02% 2026 annual figure from Backlinko is partial-year data; the June 2026 live StatCounter reading of 69.65% is the more current figure.
The headline numbers conceal a structural shift worth calling out. Chrome’s rise from 2012 to 2019 was driven by winning desktop users away from Internet Explorer and Firefox. The surge from 2019 onward reflects a different mechanism: the expansion of internet access globally, primarily through Android smartphones in emerging markets where Chrome is the only browser most users have ever used. The two growth stories require different competitive responses.
How Many Chrome Extensions Are Available in 2026?
As of May 2026, the Chrome Web Store hosts 251,488 extensions, themes, and applications combined, according to Chrome-Stats. Breaking that down: 251,488 is the total listing count; extensions specifically number in the majority, with themes (70,127) and applications (14,601) making up the remainder.
This figure represents a significant increase from the historical baseline. The Chrome Web Store dropped from 137,345 extensions in May 2020 to approximately 112,000 by August 2024 — an 18.5% decline driven by Google’s removal of inactive, policy-violating, and Manifest V2-incompatible listings. The jump to 251,488 by May 2026 reflects both new developer submissions and revised counting methodology that includes themes and apps as a unified total.
Chrome Web Store Extension Distribution by User Count (May 2026)
| User Count Range | Share of Listings |
|---|---|
| 0 or hidden | 13.44% |
| 1 to 9 users | 34.23% |
| 10 to 99 users | 26.97% |
| 100 to 1,000 users | 15.47% |
| 1,000 to 10,000 users | 6.78% |
| 10,000 to 100,000 users | 2.40% |
| 100,000 to 1 million users | 0.58% |
| 1 million+ users | 0.12% |
Source: Chrome-Stats, via Backlinko, May 2026.
The distribution table is not a footnote — it is the core story of the extension ecosystem. More than 90% of all listings have fewer than 1,000 active users. Only 0.12% — roughly 300 extensions — have surpassed one million users. Google Translate leads Google’s own extension portfolio with over 39 million users; it is one of 15 Google-developed extensions in the store, and 7 of those have crossed one million users.
The security implication follows from the distribution: an extension with zero active users that requests broad browser permissions is a low-cost attack vector. Google completed its Manifest V3 migration in July 2025 (Chrome 139), which imposed stricter sandboxing on extension network-request APIs. Whether V3 substantially reduces the attack surface is a question the security community is still actively examining — but the 8.8 million users affected by malicious extension campaigns between mid-2024 and early 2026 illustrate the scale of the problem under the V2 regime.
Alex Rivera: The extension number that actually matters to most users is neither 251,488 nor 0.12%. It’s the handful of tools they personally rely on — password managers, ad blockers, tab managers — and those invariably sit in the top 1% by user count. The long tail exists for developers and researchers; the useful web for most users is a much shorter list.
What Version of Chrome Is Current in 2026?
According to the Chrome Releases Blog (Google), Chrome 150 is the current stable desktop release as of June 30, 2026 (version 150.0.7871.46/47 on Windows/Mac, 150.0.7871.46 on Linux). Chrome 151 entered Beta on July 3, 2026. Chrome 152 is in the Dev channel as of early July 2026.
Chrome 150 shipped with 433 security fixes, including 20 critical-severity CVEs — a notably large security payload that reflects the cumulative nature of the version’s development window.
Chrome Release Cadence
| Era | Cadence | Versions/Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2010–2021 | 6-week cycle | ~8–9 |
| 2021–September 2026 | 4-week cycle | ~13 |
| September 8, 2026 onward | 2-week cycle | ~26 |
Source: Chrome for Developers blog, March 3, 2026; Chrome Releases Blog, fetched July 2026.
Google announced the shift to a two-week release cycle in March 2026, with the stable release of Chrome 153 on September 8, 2026 as the switchover point. The stated rationale: the web platform evolves faster than a four-week cycle can accommodate, and smaller, more frequent releases simplify post-release debugging. The Extended Stable channel, designed for enterprise administrators and Chromium embedders, remains on an eight-week cadence.
The competitive context is visible in Google’s own announcement: the March 2026 post explicitly noted pressure from AI-powered browser entrants, including products from OpenAI and Perplexity, as a reason to accelerate Chrome’s feature velocity.
What Is the DOJ Antitrust Case Against Chrome?
Chrome sits at the center of the most consequential browser antitrust case since the Department of Justice pursued Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the late 1990s.
In August 2024, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had illegally monopolized the general search market, with Chrome serving as a key distribution mechanism — Google’s default search positioning in Chrome was identified as one of the exclusive-dealing arrangements that locked out competition. During the remedies phase (April–May 2025), the DOJ sought the structural remedy of forcing Google to divest Chrome entirely, arguing that Chrome was a “critical search access point” that no rival could realistically replicate.
On September 2, 2025, Judge Mehta rejected the Chrome divestiture. His ruling instead imposed behavioral remedies: a six-year prohibition on Google entering exclusive distribution contracts for Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini; a requirement that Google share its search index and user-interaction data with rivals; and annual exit options for distribution partners. Per the Library of Congress’s analysis of the remedies decision, the court found that forced divestiture would be disproportionate given the behavioral remedies available.
Both sides appealed. Google filed its Notice of Appeal on January 16, 2026, challenging data-sharing requirements and technical oversight. The DOJ filed a cross-appeal by its February 3, 2026 deadline seeking the stronger structural remedies — including Chrome divestiture — that the district court had rejected. Appeals court arguments are projected for late 2026 or early 2027.
The antitrust proceedings are the single largest structural risk to Chrome’s current market position. If an appeals court were to reinstate the divestiture remedy, Chrome’s default-agreement advantage over search competitors would be severed — and the 16-percentage-point gap between Chrome’s North American share and its global share suggests that the competitive landscape without default positioning would look very different.
Alex Rivera: The district court’s logic is defensible — behavioral remedies before structural ones, proportionality. But the appeals dynamic is genuinely uncertain. The DOJ’s cross-appeal keeps the divestiture question alive for at least another year, and the browser’s role in Google’s advertising business ($49 billion in search ad revenue in a single quarter, per Alphabet filings) means there is no version of this case where Chrome is a side issue.
How Does Chrome Compare to Safari in 2026?
Safari is Chrome’s only credible global competitor, and the comparison looks different depending on which dimension you examine.
Globally (all devices), Chrome leads 69.65% to 15.31% — a gap of 54.34 points. On mobile worldwide, Chrome leads 67.97% to 24.07%. But in North American mobile, Safari leads Chrome 54.69% to 38.18%, and in U.S. mobile specifically, Safari’s lead is similar.
The key underlying variable is iOS market share. Safari is the only full browser Apple permits on iOS (third-party browsers on iOS must use Apple’s WebKit engine). In markets where iPhones dominate mobile device sales — the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia — Safari competes on near-equal footing with Chrome. In markets where Android dominates — most of Africa, Asia, and Latin America — Safari is a rounding error.
The EU’s Digital Markets Act has begun to shift this in one specific way: browser choice screens required on EU iPhones led StatCounter to record Chrome at 13.1% of iOS browser usage in the EU by April 2026, per the data documented on our iPhone vs Android market share page. Whether DMA-style regulation in other jurisdictions meaningfully changes Safari’s iOS position outside Europe remains to be seen.
Chrome vs Safari — Head-to-Head (June 2026)
| Market | Chrome | Safari | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global all-device | 69.65% | 15.31% | Chrome (+54.34 pts) |
| Global mobile | 67.97% | 24.07% | Chrome (+43.90 pts) |
| Global desktop | 72.24% | 5.18% | Chrome (+67.06 pts) |
| North America (all) | 54.01% | ~29.2% | Chrome (+~24.8 pts) |
| U.S. mobile | 38.18% | 54.69% | Safari (+16.51 pts) |
Sources: StatCounter GlobalStats (global, Europe, North America figures direct-fetched July 2026); Backlinko/StatCounter (U.S. device breakdowns, published May 15, 2026).
Methodology
How Axis Intelligence Research Assembled These Data
Primary sources. All market share figures in this article derive from StatCounter GlobalStats, fetched directly from gs.statcounter.com in July 2026 (global, desktop, mobile, Europe, North America pages), and from Backlinko’s longitudinal StatCounter analysis (published May 15, 2026) for historical series and U.S. breakdowns. User count estimates combine ITU internet user data with StatCounter share figures, as documented by Backlinko. Chrome Web Store data derives from Chrome-Stats as reported by Backlinko (May 2026). Chrome release data comes directly from the Chrome Releases Blog (Google) and Chrome for Developers blog, both fetched July 2026. Antitrust data sourced from the Library of Congress CRS Legal Sidebar (September 2025) and the tech-insider.org case tracker (June 2026).
Axis original element — Chrome Regional Dominance Gap (CRDG™). The CRDG is a new composite metric created by Axis Intelligence Research. Formula: CRDG = Regional Chrome Share − Global Chrome Share (69.65%, June 2026). Inputs are the directly confirmed regional figures from StatCounter (Europe: 62.69%, North America: 54.01%, global: 69.65%) and StatCounter-sourced aggregations for South America (~78.5%), Africa (~75.5%), and Asia (~71%). The CRDG reading for any region will change as StatCounter’s monthly figures update; the methodology version is v1.0. No similar metric is published by any primary data provider.
Cross-source verification. Cloudflare Radar June 2026 human-traffic data (68.1%) was used as a cross-check against the StatCounter global figure (69.65%). The ~1.5-point gap is consistent with expected differences between panel methodologies (StatCounter captures page views including bot-adjacent traffic; Cloudflare filters human-only sessions). The two figures bracket Chrome’s true share within a narrow range and confirm each other directionally.
Limitations. StatCounter’s panel is weighted toward sites that have installed StatCounter analytics; this may overweight certain geographies and site categories. Regional figures for South America, Africa, and Asia were not confirmed from StatCounter’s live regional pages in this session; they are drawn from secondary aggregators citing StatCounter and are labeled accordingly. The user count of 3.83 billion is an estimate derived from applying StatCounter share percentages to ITU internet user totals; ITU figures themselves carry measurement uncertainty. Tablet share data is from 2025 and not confirmed for June 2026.
About This Dataset
Dataset: Chrome Statistics 2026 — browser market share, user counts, extension ecosystem, release cadence, and antitrust context
Temporal coverage: 2008–2026, with primary focus on June 2026 snapshots
Spatial coverage: Worldwide; breakdowns for global, North America, Europe, United States, and directional data for South America, Africa, and Asia
Creator and publisher: Axis Intelligence Research
License: CC BY 4.0 — you are free to share and adapt with attribution
Citation: Axis Intelligence Research. “Chrome Statistics 2026.” July 18, 2026. https://axis-intelligence.com/chrome-statistics/
Chrome Statistics 2026 — FAQ
What is Chrome’s global market share in 2026?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome holds 69.65% of global browser sessions across all device types (desktop, mobile, and tablet). On human-only traffic measured by Cloudflare Radar, Chrome’s share was 68.1% in June 2026 — a slightly lower figure that reflects the exclusion of automated traffic.
How many people use Google Chrome in 2026?
An estimated 3.83 billion people use Google Chrome globally in 2026, according to Backlinko’s analysis combining StatCounter market share data with ITU figures on global internet users. This represents a roughly 25% increase from 3.06 billion users in 2020.
What is Chrome’s desktop market share in 2026?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome holds 72.24% of global desktop browser sessions. Edge is a distant second at 10.45%, followed by Firefox at 6.31%.
What is Chrome’s mobile market share in 2026?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome holds 67.97% of global mobile browser sessions. Safari is second at 24.07%, followed by Samsung Internet at 2.46%.
What is Chrome’s market share in the United States?
Chrome holds approximately 50.03% of the U.S. browser market across all device types, according to Backlinko analysis of StatCounter data (mid-2026). On U.S. desktop, Chrome leads at 60.47%; on U.S. mobile, Safari leads Chrome 54.69% to 38.18%.
What is Chrome’s market share in Europe in 2026?
According to StatCounter GlobalStats (June 2026), Chrome holds 62.69% of browser sessions in Europe across all device types. This is notably below Chrome’s global average of 69.65%, partly reflecting the EU Digital Markets Act’s effect on browser choice on iOS devices.
How many Chrome extensions are available in 2026?
As of May 2026, the Chrome Web Store lists 251,488 combined extensions, themes, and applications, according to Chrome-Stats data cited by Backlinko. Of these, 90.11% have fewer than 1,000 active users, and only 0.12% have surpassed one million users.
What version of Chrome is current in 2026?
Chrome 150 is the current stable release as of late June 2026 (version 150.0.7871.46/47), according to the Chrome Releases Blog (Google). Chrome 151 is in Beta. Starting September 8, 2026, Chrome moves from a four-week to a two-week release cycle beginning with Chrome 153.
Will Chrome be broken up as part of the Google antitrust case?
No structural breakup has occurred as of July 2026. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on September 2, 2025 that Chrome would not be divested, imposing behavioral remedies instead — including a six-year ban on exclusive distribution contracts covering Chrome. Both Google and the DOJ have filed cross-appeals; appellate proceedings are projected for late 2026 or early 2027.
What is the Chromium browser engine’s market share in 2026?
According to multiple browser share analyses (DigitalApplied, About Chromebooks), the Chromium-based Blink engine powers approximately 78–83% of all web sessions globally, encompassing Chrome, Edge, Opera, Samsung Internet, and Brave. This figure is an Axis Intelligence Research estimate combining StatCounter share data for all Chromium-based browsers; the range reflects methodological variation across sources.
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