In December 2024, Microsoft's Edge browser had a market share of 13.34 percent in the United States. Edge was first publicly released in July 2015, with the consumer release of Windows 10. However, Chrome held a majority of the market share, with almost 66 percent in the same month. What are web browsers? A web browser is a software application for visualizing websites, documents and data. The most popular current browsers are Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Historically one of the large players in the segment, Internet Explorer has unfortunately lost its tight grip on the web browser market.As shown by the graph at hand, Google Chrome has been the most popular browser in the United States since December 2013. In other countries, Google Chrome has also taken up a dominating role. In the European browser market, Chrome and Safari have established strong market positions with 61 and 11.4 percent, respectively. On a worldwide scale, Chrome provided a share of around 64 percent in the global web browser market as of December 2021.

As of August 2024, the Google Chrome browser accounted for over 65 percent of the global market for internet browsers. Apple’s Safari browser was the second most popular internet browser around the world, accounting for about 18.6 percent of market share. Apart from these two, no other browser controlled more than five percent of the overall market share. Internet use With billions of people around the world having some form of access to the technology, around half of the world’s population can be classified as internet users. In countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany, a big majority of citizens access the internet on a daily basis, whether it be for work or personal entertainment. In the United States, the average adult spends hours per day online, once again showing the large importance of internet in peoples’ daily lives. Web browsers Web browsers serve as the platform through which users from across the globe access the contents of the internet. With the help of a web browser, users can access a huge variety of content including entertainment sites, social media, and online shopping retailers. In recent years, social media sites such as Facebook have become some of the most popular sites, with users determined to keep up-to-date with the digital presence of their friends, families, and favorite celebrities.

As of October 2024, Google Chrome had the largest market share in the United States, with over 54 percent, followed by Apple's Safari, with 31 percent. Furthermore, Microsoft's Edge browser had a United States market share of 7 percent. The new Microsoft Edge was based on Chromium and was released in January 2020. Web browsers Web browsers serve as the application software through which users from across the globe access the contents of the World Wide Web. Browsers are available on a range of devices: desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and consoles. Given the popularity of smartphones, mobile devices have become the primary way to access the internet, overtaking PCs. Google Chrome has been the most popular web browser worldwide in the past decade, holding almost two-thirds of the market in 2023. Safari followed, occupying around 19 percent of the market. Safari turns 20 years old Safari is a web browser developed by Apple and first launched in January 2003. With regular updates, Safari is integrated into iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, the operating systems of iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Thanks to the popularity of Apple devices worldwide, Safari is used as a web browser at different rations in the United States and in many European countries. For instance, Safari held over 29 percent of the UK internet browser market in August 2022 but only 11 percent of the German web browser market in November 2022.

As browser-based workflows have become the norm, people have started choosing web browsers other than Google Chrome and Safari. Opera, a Norwegian web browser company, has leveraged this trend, pushing its Opera Browser to the forefront. Today, Opera Browser is one of the most popular browsers from the list of...

In March 2025, the Google Chrome browser was the leader in the mobile internet browser market, with a share of 66.75 percent. As the runner-up, Apple’s Safari had a market share of around 23 percent. Other contenders in the field include Samsung Internet and Opera. Browser market Around half of the world’s population uses the internet regularly, and web browsers serve as the channel through which users from across the globe access the internet each day. As in the mobile browser market, Chrome is also the dominant figure in the overall web browser market. In December 2024, Chrome for Android and Chrome occupied the top two spots in the global web browser market. Chrome’s dominance is the most prominent in the desktop browser market: in 2024, Google’s popular browser accounted for nearly 67 percent of the market, miles ahead of its competitors. Google Chrome Released in 2008 by Google, Chrome has become one of the tech giant's most successful products over the years, together with their search engine Google Search, mobile operating system Android, e-mail service Gmail, etc. The success of Chrome has led to the expansion of the brand name into the company's other products such as Chrome OS, Chromecast, and Chromebook.

In December 2024, Google's Chrome 131.0 achieved a market share of around 21.6 percent of page views in Germany. Mozilla's Firefox 132.0 achieved a share of roughly 13.7 percent in the same month, while Edge 130 had a share of around 8.3 percent. The data is based on the usage of desktop and laptop PCs (excluding smartphones and tablets). Digital giants Google Chrome experienced a jump in browser market share a few years ago, but recently, figures stabilized and even decreased slightly. Firefox has recorded a larger decrease in market share. Mostly the same was true for the desktop browser versions. Google Chrome, again, clearly dominated the market of desktop browsers, with a share of over 66 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox's share has been under ten percent since 2019 and decreased since. Most popular search engine Google’s leading position is echoed all over the world. Based on recent figures, the highest share of desktop search traffic from Google was recorded in India, followed by South Korea and Brazil. Germany was further down the list.

This project aims to list browser extensions that are often targeted by stealers or used maliciously by attackers.

You will find a list of extension IDs and their respective names and links for reference.

If you know of any additional sensitive browser extensions that should be included in this list, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

Hunting Guides: - https://mthcht.medium.com/detecting-browser-extensions-installations-e0ac2b45c46b - https://trustedsec.com/blog/when-on-workstation-do-as-the-local-browsers-do?hss_channel=tw-403811306 - https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/detecting-browser-data-theft-using.html

As of December 2024, Google’s Chrome accounted for 65.82 percent of the global web browser market share. Firefox and Internet Explorer have experienced massively reduced market share in recent years as Chrome’s influence has expanded, and new competitors have entered the market. How are web browsers changing? In the UK, smartphones have overtaken traditional desktop computers as the most popular way to access the internet. Tech giants such as Samsung and Apple have used their smartphone hardware as a platform to encourage the use of their mobile web browsers. Each iPhone comes pre-loaded with Apple’s Safari set as its default internet browser, and consumers have become increasingly comfortable with the platform without having to seek it out themselves specifically. Google’s role in the web Throughout the years, Google has become increasingly vertically integrated at many levels of the tech industry. Already controlling the world’s most used search engine, the company also owns the world’s most popular web browser (Google Chrome), the world’s most popular email service (Gmail), the world’s most popular GPS mapping service (Google Maps), and has recently branched out into hardware itself, with its line of smartphones and wearable devices.

Chrome held the biggest market share among the web browsers in Norway, as of August. Leading with roughly 50 percent of the total market share, it was followed by Safari, which had over 33 percent. Desktop browsers and mobile browsers That year Chrome was the leading desktop web browser by market share as well. Second on the Norwegian desktop browser market came Safari. In contrast, Safari ranked first among the mobile web browsers in the country, holding over half of the market share, and it was closely followed by Chrome. Samsung Internet held over seven percent of the market, whereas all the other mobile web browsers held less than one percent each. What are the corresponding figures worldwide? Worldwide, Chrome for Android was the leading web browser version in January 2021. Second in the list was another version of Chrome: Chrome 87.0 and Safari iPhone. Chrome 88.0 ranked fourth, while Safari 14 ranked fifth that month.

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As of 2023, Google Chrome was the most popular internet browser in Canada, controlling over half of the overall market with about 50 percent. The company's major competitor is Apple’s Safari browser which accounts for an additional 33 percent of the market share. The market’s distant third tier of competitors include Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet, each of which account for between three and seven percent of the overall market.

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Since its initial release in 2008, Google Chrome has become the most popular web browser in the world by a significant margin. While Safari is certainly a legitimate competitor in the U.S. market due to the massive popularity of Apple devices, Chrome’s worldwide market share is close to 64 percent, placing the product in a league of its own. In addition, Google browser products account for three of the top five most widely used browser versions in the world, with Chrome for Android, Chrome 91.0, and Chrome 90.0 all making the list.

Shift towards mobile

Smartphones have overtaken traditional desktop computers as the most popular way to access the internet in many parts of the world, and tech giants such as Samsung and Apple have used their smartphone hardware as a platform to encourage the use of their mobile web browsers. Each iPhone comes pre-loaded with Apple’s Safari set as its default internet browser, meaning that consumers have become increasingly comfortable with the platform without having to specifically seek it out themselves.

The UCSC Genome Browser is an online graphical viewer for genomes, a genome browser, hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The interactive website offers access to genome sequence data from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species and major model organisms, integrated with a large collection of aligned annotations. This dataset is a copy of the MySQL tables in MyISAM binary and tab-sep format and all binary files in custom formats, sometimes referred as 'gbdb'-files. Data from the UCSC Genome Browser is free and open for use by anyone. However, every genome annotation track has been created by an academic research group, or, in a few cases, by commercial companies. Please acknowledge them by citing them. The information can be found by going to https://genome.ucsc.edu, selecting the respective genome assembly and clicking on the data track. At the end of the documentation, we provide a list of references and acknowledgements.

The ad blocker market, while exhibiting a mature stage, continues to demonstrate robust growth driven by increasing user concerns regarding online privacy and intrusive advertising. The market's expansion is fueled by the proliferation of sophisticated ad formats that disrupt user experience, coupled with rising awareness of data privacy breaches associated with online tracking. This leads to a strong demand for effective ad-blocking solutions across various devices, including desktops, mobile phones, and tablets. While precise market sizing is unavailable, given a study period of 2019-2033 and a base year of 2025, we can infer significant market volume. Considering the widespread adoption of ad blockers and consistent innovation in the sector, a reasonable estimate for the 2025 market size would be in the range of $2 to $3 billion USD, considering the global reach and diverse user base. A projected Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) would realistically fall between 5% and 8% throughout the forecast period (2025-2033), reflecting sustained yet moderate growth due to market saturation and ongoing technological advancements that aim to circumvent ad blockers. Key segments driving growth include browser extensions, mobile applications, and dedicated ad-blocking software for routers and networks. Restraints on growth include the development of sophisticated anti-adblocking techniques by publishers and the potential for ad blockers to negatively impact website revenue streams. Future trends suggest an increasing focus on privacy-centric ad blocking, with solutions that allow for acceptable advertising while maintaining user control and data security. This will be a key factor influencing the market dynamics of the future. The competitive landscape is characterized by both established players and emerging startups, each vying for market share with various strategies. Established names like uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, and AdGuard dominate, leveraging their reputation and large user bases. Newer players compete by offering innovative features, such as customizable blocking options and improved performance. The integration of ad blockers into browsers and operating systems further consolidates market share for established providers. Geographic variations exist, with North America and Europe currently representing significant market segments, however, growth in developing economies with increasing internet penetration is projected to significantly contribute to overall market expansion in the coming years. The market is expected to see further consolidation and strategic partnerships as players seek to enhance their offerings and reach wider audiences.

We present a dataset targeting a large set of popular pages (Alexa top-500), from probes from several ISPs networks, browsers software (Chrome, Firefox) and viewport combinations, for over 200,000 experiments realized in 2019.We purposely collect two distinct sets with two different tools, namely Web Page Test (WPT) and Web View (WV), varying a number of relevant parameters and conditions, for a total of 200K+ web sessions, roughly equally split among WV and WPT. Our dataset comprises variations in terms of geographical coverage, scale, diversity and representativeness (location, targets, protocol, browser, viewports, metrics).For Web Page Test, we used the online service www.webpagetest.org at different locations worldwide (Europe, Asia, USA) and private WPT instances in three locations in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Dongguan). The list of target URLs comprised the main pages and five random subpages from Alexa top-500 worldwide and China. We varied network conditions : native connections and 4G, FIOS, 3GFast, DSL, and custom shaping/loss conditions. The other elements in the configuration were fixed: Chrome browser on desktop with a fixed screen resolution, HTTP/2 protocol and IPv4.For Web View, we collected experiments from three machines located in France. We selected two versions of two browser families (Chrome 75/77, Firefox 63/68), two screen sizes (1920x1080, 1440x900), and employ different browser configurations (one half of the experiments activate the AdBlock plugin) from two different access technologies (fiber and ADSL). From a protocol standpoint, we used both IPv4 and IPv6, with HTTP/2 and QUIC, and performed repeated experiments with cached objects/DNS. Given the settings diversity, we restricted the number of websites to about 50 among the Alexa top-500 websites, to ensure statistical relevance of the collected samples for each page.The two archives IFIPNetworking2020_WebViewOrange.zip and IFIPNetworking2020_Webpagetest.zip correspond respectively to the Web View experiments and to the Web Page Test experiments.Each archive contains three files:- config.csv: Description of parameters and conditions for each run,- metrics.csv: Value of different metrics collected by the browser,- progressionCurves.csv: Progression curves of the bytes progress as seen by the network, from 0 to 10 seconds by steps of 100 milliseconds,- listUrl folder: Indexes the sets of urls.Regarding config.csv, the columns are: - index: Index for this set of conditions, - location: Location of the machine, - listUrl: List of urls, located in the folder listUrl - browserUsed: Internet browser and version - terminal: Desktop or Mobile - collectionEnvironment: Identification of the collection environment - networkConditionsTrafficShaping (WPT only): Whether native condition or traffic shaping (4G, FIOS, 3GFast, DSL, or custom Emulator conditions) - networkConditionsBandwidth (WPT only): Bandwidth of the network - networkConditionsDelay (WPT only): Delay in the network - networkConditions (WV only): network conditions - ipMode (WV only): requested L3 protocol, - requestedProtocol (WV only): requested L7 protocol - adBlocker (WV only): Whether adBlocker is used or not - winSize (WV only): Window sizeRegarding metrics.csv, the columns are: - id: Unique identification of an experiment (consisting of an index 'set of conditions' and an index 'current page') - DOM Content Loaded Event End (ms): DOM time, - First Paint (ms) (WV only): First paint time, - Load Event End (ms): Page Load Time from W3C, - RUM Speed Index (ms) (WV only): RUM Speed Index, - Speed Index (ms) (WPT only): Speed Index, - Time for Full Visual Rendering (ms) (WV only): Time for Full Visual Rendering - Visible portion (%) (WV only): Visible portion, - Time to First Byte (ms) (WPT only): Time to First Byte, - Visually Complete (ms) (WPT only): Visually Complete used to compute the Speed Index, - aatf: aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - bi_aatf: bi_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - bi_plt: bi_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - dom: dom using ATF-chrome-plugin - ii_aatf: ii_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - ii_plt: ii_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_css: last_css using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_img: last_img using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_js: last_js using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_css: nb_ress_css using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_img: nb_ress_img using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_js: nb_ress_js using ATF-chrome-plugin - num_origins: num_origins using ATF-chrome-plugin - num_ressources: num_ressources using ATF-chrome-plugin - oi_aatf: oi_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - oi_plt: oi_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - plt: plt using ATF-chrome-pluginRegarding progressionCurves.csv, the columns are: - id: Unique identification of an experiment (consisting of an index 'set of conditions' and an index 'current page') - url: Url of the current page. SUBPAGE stands for a path. - run: Current run (linked with index of the config for WPT) - filename: Filename of the pcap - fullname: Fullname of the pcap - har_size: Size of the HAR for this experiment, - pagedata_size: Size of the page data report - pcap_size: Size of the pcap - App Byte Index (ms): Application Byte Index as computed from the har file (in the browser) - bytesIn_APP: Total bytes in as seen in the browser, - bytesIn_NET: Total bytes in as seen in the network, - X_BI_net: Network Byte Index computed from the pcap file (in the network) - X_bin_0_for_B_completion to X_bin_99_for_B_completion: X_bin_k_for_B_completion is the bytes progress reached after k*100 millisecondsIf you use these datasets in your research, you can reference to the appropriate paper:@inproceedings{qoeNetworking2020, title={Revealing QoE of Web Users from Encrypted Network Traffic}, author={Huet, Alexis and Saverimoutou, Antoine and Ben Houidi, Zied and Shi, Hao and Cai, Shengming and Xu, Jinchun and Mathieu, Bertrand and Rossi, Dario}, booktitle={2020 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)}, year={2020}, organization={IEEE}}

The dataset consists of multiple different data sources:

1. DoH enabled Firefox on Linux OS
2. DoH enabled Firefox on Windows 10 OS
3. DoH enabled Chrome on Windows 10 OS

We captured the traffic from the DoH enabled web-browsers using tcpdump. To automate the process of traffic generation, we installed Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox into separate virtual machines and controlled them with the Selenium framework shows detailed information about used browsers and environments). Selenium simulates a user's browsing according to the predefined script and a list of domain names (i.e., URLs from Alexa's top websites list in our case). The selenium was configured to visit pages in random order multiple times. For capturing the traffic, we used the default settings of each browser. We did not disable the DNS cache of the browser, and the random order of visiting webpages secures that the dataset contains traces influenced by DNS caching mechanisms. Each virtual machine was configured to export TLS cryptographic keys, that was used for decrypting the traffic using WireShark application.

The WireShark text output of the decrypted traffic is provided in the dataset files. The detailed information about each file is provided in dataset README.

Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 833418 and also by the Grant Agency of the CTU in Prague, grant No. SGS20/210/OHK3/3T/18 funded by the MEYS of the Czech Republic and the project Reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001797 co-funded by the MEYS and ERDF

This Windows 8 app lists all records that are available on data.gv.at. In addition to the information available on the portal data.gv.at, there are also display options for almost all data sets such as PDF documents and geodata in various forms (POIs, routes and areas) New records or changes in existing records are automatically available in the app and if a suitable visualization is available, this data can also be displayed immediately! Further visualization options such as diagrams will be added in future updates.

Device type, browser and nationality on the Cigale wifi hotspot network. Based on the technical information of the terminals and the Internet browser. See list of cigale wifi hotspots See Nationality Correspondence Table

Chrome was the leading browser in Russia in 2023, making up almost 53 percent of the market. The domestic Yandex Browser listed second, with a market share of over 18 percent. Safari made it in the top three, accounting for roughly 13 percent of the market in that year.

In 2024, Google Chrome was the leader in the Russian mobile internet browser market, having accounted for approximately 58 percent of the analyzed traffic. Apple’s Safari ranked second, followed by Yandex Browser.

As of February 2025, Northern Europe ranked first by the internet penetration rate, with over 97.9 percent of its population using the internet. Western Europe followed, with 95.1 percent. Overall, the global average internet penetration rate was roughly 67.9 percent. Global internet use The ongoing development of telecommunication networks and infrastructure has directly impacted internet penetration on a global scale. Thanks to advancing mobile technology and the continuous modernization of previously less-developed regions, the number of internet users worldwide has been on the rise in recent years, reaching 5.45 billion as of July 2024. In the world-wide-web, Google's Chrome still holds the largest market share for internet browsers, roughly 65.2 percent of the total market as of August 2024, followed by Apple's Safari at nearly 19 percent. Majority of global internet users are in Asia Asia has the most extensive internet user base – more than an estimated 2.9 billion internet users in this region alone – with East Asia accounting for most of this share. Despite this region's large volume of internet users, Asia is far from being a leader regarding online penetration. Eastern Asia, for instance, had an online penetration rate of 75.3 percent as of April 2023.