Apple’s Safari is the world’s second-most-used and least vulnerable desktop web browser, yet only 1% of Indians use it

• Google Chrome and Apple Safari are the world’s most popular desktop browsers.
• Google Chrome is the most vulnerable web browser of 2022, with 303 reported vulnerabilities.
• 90.4% of Indians use Google Chrome as a desktop browser.

Google Chrome is a very popular browser, so much so that people choose to use it even if it's not already on their device. This means that the market for web browsers stays mostly the same because most people stick with Chrome.

Statcounter, a platform that tracks web browser usage across various websites, reports that Google Chrome is still the world's most widely used desktop browser, holding 66.13% of the market. Safari has regained its position as the second most popular browser globally, with 11.87% of desktop users regularly using it. Microsoft Edge follows closely behind at 11%. However, only a small fraction of Indians, specifically 1.01%, used Safari in April.

In the meantime, Atlas VPN has found that Google Chrome is the most vulnerable web browser of 2022, with 303 reported vulnerabilities thus far. In fact, Google Chrome has the highest cumulative number of vulnerabilities of all time, with 3,159 reported vulnerabilities. Conversely, Apple's Safari browser has consistently had low vulnerability numbers for years. Despite recently reaching over 1 billion users and becoming the second most popular browser globally, Safari had only 26 documented vulnerabilities in the first three quarters of 2022.

Here’s the full ranking below:

1. Google Chrome: 66.13%
2. Safari: 11.87%
3. Microsoft Edge: 11%
4. Firefox: 5.65%
5. Opera: 3.09%
6. Internet Explorer: 0.55%

Apple's macOS Ventura enhances Safari with new features

Apple's macOS Ventura comes with exciting new features for Safari, including web push notifications, Shared Tab Group, strong password editing, improved CSS, and Passkeys. The Passkeys feature allows users to authenticate websites using Touch ID, eliminating the need to create traditional passwords. Despite these improvements, Safari still needs to catch up in supporting some of the latest web standards. This can prompt some users to switch to alternative browsers. In contrast, Microsoft has focused on integrating AI-based features into the Edge web browser to attract more users. The company has incorporated Bing Search with ChatGPT and the popular image generator DALL∙E.

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