With recent moves, Microsoft has made it clear that it wants Windows users to stick with Edge browser and the latest figures from Statcounter indicate that the company has succeeded in doing so. According to the tracking website, Edge saw a slight increase in market share last month. As the chart shared on the website shows, the browser’s market share fell from 3.99% in October to 4.19% in November. On the other hand, Google Chrome is the only browser that has lost market share. The browser’s market share fell to 64.04% in November from 65.27% in October.
Although Edge has the third-highest market share since April, it’s still quite far behind Safari and Chrome. There’s no denying that Microsoft’s decision to revamp its browser using Chromium has finally started to pay off.
The tech giant recently stepped up its campaign against Chromium when it started showing prompts like “This browser is so 2008! Do you know what’s new? Microsoft Edge.” whenever a user visited the Chrome browser download page. However, the company later returned from the aggressive strategy.
Last month, Microsoft also started blocking third-party apps like EdgeDeflector. Whenever users search for something in the Start menu search box, Microsoft takes them to the Edge browser and Bing search engine. Apps like EdgeDeflector are used to avoid these obstacles and see search results in their favorite browser.
With the launch of Windows 11, the company also changed the way users assign default apps. On the new OS, users had to set default apps based on file type or link type instead of a single switch. This means that to change the default browser, users had to change the default file type to FTP, HTTPS, HTTP, HTML, HTM, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT, and XHTML. The company then added a “Set as Default” browser button with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509.
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