The most used browser is Google Chrome, with a 64% global market share on all devices, followed by Safari with 19%. ==History== The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
This, in turn, sparked the Internet boom of the 1990s, when the Web grew at a very rapid rate.
(Internet Explorer is still used on older versions of Windows.) In terms of technology, browsers have greatly expanded their HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and multimedia capabilities since the 1990s.
He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages on dumb terminals; it was released in 1991. 1993 was a landmark year with the release of Mosaic, credited as "the world's first popular browser".
Marc Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team, soon started his own company, Netscape, which released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994.
Navigator quickly became the most popular browser. Microsoft debuted Internet Explorer in 1995, leading to a browser war with Netscape.
Eventually the market share of Internet Explorer peaked at over 95% in 2002. In 1998, Netscape launched what would become the Mozilla Foundation to create a new browser using the open source software model.
Eventually the market share of Internet Explorer peaked at over 95% in 2002. In 1998, Netscape launched what would become the Mozilla Foundation to create a new browser using the open source software model.
Firefox reached a 28% market share in 2011. Apple released its Safari browser in 2003.
This work evolved into the Firefox browser, first released by Mozilla in 2004.
It remains the dominant browser on Apple devices, though it did not become popular elsewhere. Google debuted its Chrome browser in 2008, which steadily took market share from Internet Explorer and became the most popular browser in 2012.
Firefox reached a 28% market share in 2011. Apple released its Safari browser in 2003.
Chrome has remained dominant ever since. In 2011, the HTTPS Everywhere extension was released, and the NoScript extension received numerous awards.
It remains the dominant browser on Apple devices, though it did not become popular elsewhere. Google debuted its Chrome browser in 2008, which steadily took market share from Internet Explorer and became the most popular browser in 2012.
The same year, Mozilla launched the stable version of Tor Firefox for navigating the dark web. Microsoft released its Edge browser in 2015 as part of the Windows 10 release.
In 2020, an estimated 4.9 billion people used a browser.
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