Apple’s Safari web browser has more than 1 billion users, according to an Atlas VPN estimate. Only one browser that has more than a billion users, and that is Google Chrome. But with nearly 3.4 billion, Chrome still leaves Safari in the dust.

It’s important to note that these numbers include mobile users, not just desktop users. Safari’s status as the default browser for both the iPhone and iPad likely plays a much bigger role than its use on a Mac.

However, it is impressive that Safari is the only major web browser available on Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system, or Windows, the most popular desktop operating system.

Atlas VPN wrote this on her blog To explain how he got to the number:

The stats are based on the GlobalStats browser market share percentage, which is then converted into numbers using the Internet World Stats user metric to retrieve the exact numbers.

According to the data, Chrome has approximately 3,378,967,819 users while Safari has 1,006,232,879 users. In the very distant third place is Microsoft Edge, at 212,695,363. Firefox is hot on Edge’s tails in fourth place with a price of 179,084,244.

The blog post claims that Edge just overtook Firefox for third place last year.

Meanwhile, Chrome was dominant for a long time after it replaced Microsoft Internet Explorer. If it was only news that Chrome was the biggest browser, it wouldn’t be worth reporting – these days, Chrome he is web to some extent. It should be noted that the latest version of the third-place browser, Edge, is built on Google’s Chromium.

Apple used to have broader ambitions with Safari, as there was a Windows version of the browser. But Apple stopped developing this version in June 2010. You can still technically run Safari on Windows 10 or 11, but it wouldn’t be the best idea in terms of security.

And while Safari is the default web browser on iOS, it is possible to install and use third-party browsers on iPhone and iPad. Since 2020It is possible to set something other than Safari as your default browser.

However, the difference between Safari and the third-party browser on the iPhone is profound. Alternative browsers like Chrome or Firefox still use basic Safari technologies under the hood; It simply allows users to use the bookmarks and other additional features found in those browsers on other platforms.