- Microsoft Edge has dropped to a market share of 10.37% browser
- Statcounter -Tales show that it has lost many users since May
- Meanwhile, Chrome has never been more dominant with a share of 73.81%
Microsoft Edge continues to fall into popularity and Google Chrome has not been more dominant for a long time, according to fresh statistics on desktop web browsers.
Statcounters figures for September 2025 show that Chrome now owns 73.81% of the total browser market on PCs, and while Edge is still in second place, it lowered to 10.37% last month.
It represents a loss of 1.36% over the past month, and a very worrying fall since May 2025, when Edge had a 13.64% market share that went by statscounter’s estimates (and of course that’s just that – an estimation). Lots seem to go from bad to worse for Microsoft here.
In September, Safari (in third) also slipped to 5.69% from 6.34%. Firefox is in fourth place of 4.45% and also fell from 4.93%, all of which burned Chrome’s winnings.
Analysis: Microsoft has to consider his browser strategy
It is Edge who is the clear loser here and having thrown almost 3.3% of its desktop browser share in the last five months is really bad news. While this percentage number may not sound like the big deal, remember that it is a dropping of 3.3% compared to a highlight of 13.64% this year – so it is actually a relative loss of a quarter of the browser’s user base.
Does Microsoft have advice to go backwards like this? No, definitely not. More to that point: Why is Microsoft’s share reverse like this one? That’s a good question and I have an answer that is pure speculation, but I feel it is very likely that there is some truth about it: Microsoft is simply too intrusive with edge.
Yes, I have said this before, but the more the edge browser is somehow promoted in Windows 11 (or actually Windows 10), the more people are likely to be exposed. When something consistently pushed in your face over the years, the automatic reaction for many people is to start to become suspicious. Why is Microsoft so eager to make me use Edge? Why does it continue to tell me to make edge my standard browser? It is distrusted that there should be something wrong with edge that it needs support for this very annoying.
It may also be a source of annoyance for some that Microsoft has granted a license to Windows 11 users in Europe to remove the edge (and stop the annoyingly related to it) because of data rules – but no one else gets that privilege.
Another possible reason why people leave Kant is a perception that the browser may be bloated with extra features that no one wants. However, it is a more difficult area, because in recent times Microsoft has realized that this is a problem and has adopted streamlining measures. However, what Microsoft continues to do is add more AI capacities-as part of its overall copilot AI drive-to browser, which may be a turn off for some. (Although in this case I do not agree – there are some really useful AI pruning, at least in my book).
So we could discuss about attaching the exact reasons, but my strong feeling is that promoting edge is the fundamental cause of this emigration and that the different ads and promotions to the browser are very rejected.
It seems to be clear enough that Microsoft needs to try another approach – so what about dismissing the annoying and giving users across the globe the same choices regarding Edge? Okay, it means giving people the chance to remove it, and although uninstalling Edge to get more users can seem modintuitive, it is really about meaningful to change perceptions – and build confidence that there is no kind of hidden ‘agenda’ with the browser.
Most of all, it is a shame to see Edge fail when 2025 rolls on, as it is actually a good browser – the top dog, in fact in our Roundup of the best web browsers. Something is very wrong somewhere, for it to flail around as badly as the numbers of statscounters show.
