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Countries Where Chrome is Already Near-Monopoly and Firefox is Under 1%

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 28, 2024,

updated Feb 28, 2024

Recent: The Web Has Become Chrome

THIS Web site is big among GNU/Linux users, but that says almost nothing about browser usage, which has become rather obscene in countries where Android is dominant:

We support every browser as long as it's based on Chromium

Browser Market Share Philippines

It looks like the browser monopoly is quickly becoming as big a problem as the OS monopoly, which is waning. If the Web becomes all about Chrome, what will happen to standards and freedom?

Based on this site's logs since midnight (news.tuxmachines.org):

wc -l /var/log/apache2/news.tuxmachines.org-access.log

67220 /var/log/apache2/news.tuxmachines.org-access.log

grep hrom /var/log/apache2/news.tuxmachines.org-access.log | wc -l

10232

"hrom" catches Chrome, chrome, and Chromium. So at least we don't (yet) have this problem of monoculture. There are even 'niche' browsers like NetSurf:

grep NetSurf /var/log/apache2/news.tuxmachines.org-access.log | wc -l

34

The Web is supposed to work according to standards rather than tested for some narrow set of Web browsers/rendering engines. █