Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have were able to improve their share of the market in July 2020, based on third-party numbers from NetMarketShare, by the design of products, the largest victim of the continued growth appears to be the one and only Firefox.

Mozilla's application is definitely the second most-used desktop browser, however that Microsoft Edge has completed the switch to Chromium people these days give it a shot, its market share is continuously declining.

And Firefox is actually heading down so fast that it already lost the second place, with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge now spearheading the desktop browser market.

Recently, Google Chrome increased its market share from 70.19% to 71.00%, while Microsoft Edge jumped from 8.07% to 8.46%. Meanwhile, Firefox declined from 7.58% to 7.27%.

The new Microsoft Edge

The migration to the Chromium engine allowed Microsoft to show Edge into a cross-platform browser, and this is one of the reasons that contributed to the development of the new app.

Edge has become available not only on Windows 10, but also on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, as well as macOS. At the same time, Microsoft can also be focusing on a Linux form of the browser, along with a preview build is anticipated after the year.

But what made Microsoft Edge the 2nd most-used desktop browser available so quick following the switch to Chromium is certainly Microsoft offering it as being the default browser in Windows 10.

The brand new Edge replaces the legacy form of the browser because the default app in the operating system, with Windows 10 itself also becoming the world's number 1 desktop platform, Edge's share of the market increases too. Microsoft offers the new Edge both as a manual download so that as an automatic update on Windows 10 devices.