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The above graph represents the mobile browser market share in India by month. Google Chrome, UC Browser, Opera, Samsung Internet and Safari are the top five mobile browsers in India as of August 2020. With a whopping 80.92% share, Google Chrome is dominating the India’s mobile browser market in August 2020. That’s an appreciable 17.48 percent point increase in Chrome mobile browser share when compared to the year-ago period.
| Region | India |
| Source | StatCounter |
| Graph ID | 485 |
| Duration | January 2009 to August 2020 |
Surprisingly, out of these India’s top five mobile browsers, only Chrome and Safari recorded some YoY growth in their market share in August month.
UC owned UC Browser has been constantly losing ground in India. UC browser market share in India declined to 8.19% in August 2020, from a whopping 23.06% share in August 2019 and 8.93% in July 2020. In spite of that, UC Browser is still the largest third-party mobile browser in India.
Surprisingly, Opera has lost more than 90% of its market in the last 11 years. The Opera mobile browser market share in India has tanked to just 4.2% of August 2020, from a whopping 61.84% in January 2009.
With a 3.17% market share, Samsung Internet overtook KaiOS as the fourth widely used mobile browser in India in September 2019. In August 2020, Samsung Internet is holding 2.77% share of India’s mobile browser market.
The world’s one of the most valued company has failed to impress mobile browser users in India. Apple owned Safari accounts for only 2.88% of the mobile browser market in India.
More Information About Web Browsers
A web browser is a software application that people use for accessing the information on the World Wide Web (www). The popular web browsers include Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Edge, etc.
The world’s first web browser – WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus) – was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. However, it was discontinued in 1994.
On August 16, 1995, Microsoft released Internet Explorer, which soon became the world’s widely used web browser across all platforms. In fact, due to its immense popularity, the market share of Internet Explorer browser even peaked at over 95% in 2002. However, its usage of Microsoft IE started declining slowly after the launch of Firefox in 2004 and Google Chrome in 2008.
Currently, Google Chrome is the world’s most used web browser across all platforms such as desktop/laptop, mobile, and tablet.
Apple released Safari browser on January 7, 2003. Safari comes as the default browser on all Apple devices including iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, etc.
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