Browser Warfare-Chrome is in charge of the world, but IE still holds the core position in China

The power alternation between empires of the Internet is always so rapid, and this happens in the browser battlefield. Next month, Google's Chrome browser will usher in the five anniversary of the date of release. Chrome has accounted for 43% of the traffic contributed by PC end browsers ...

Looking back five years ago, when Chrome first launched, IE browser also held the core position, then occupy 68% of the market share. Today, that number has fallen to 25%.

The Economist recently released a map of the most popular browsers in countries and regions across the globe. Among them, the blue area represents IE browser in this country also occupies the dominant position. Popular browsers in different regions

There is no doubt that mainland China is still tightly controlled by IE. Other IE-dominated areas include Japan, Denmark's Greenland, Switzerland, Libya, and most of South Africa's countries.

It is noteworthy that, although Firefox has also seen a downward trend in recent years, but in many African countries, some Nordic countries, Iran, Afghanistan and Indonesia have a leading position.

Throughout the chart, Chrome has conquered most of the world's countries with obvious advantages, especially in North and South America.

Reviewing the development roadmap of the entire browser market, 20 years ago, the world's first browser can be integrated display pictures and text Mosaic launched. Later, some of its developers published the Netscape browser in 1994. But Netscape's leadership was quickly threatened by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which bundled the Windows operating system.

Until 2010, when the European Commission asked Microsoft to leave its users with the opportunity to choose other browsers, Firefox began to move into the public eye. But now Firefox has been robbed of more users by Chrome.

In fact, it is not easy to determine the market share of browsers. Standards are not the same among institutions. For example, in the calculation of the number of users as the standard, IE is still ranked first. However, with the development of E-commerce and video sites, the importance of traffic is more pronounced. So, in this perspective, Chrome has a clear advantage.