The Google Chrome continues to be the number one browser globally, but even though it's the preferred choice for the majority of users, that doesn't necessarily mean there's no turbulence.
Alive evidence is browser performance in August 2017, as the Google Chrome fell for the first time in many months, from 59,57% last month to 59,38%.
The drop in market share doesn't appear to be significant, but it stops Google Chrome from reaching the 60 percent it looked like it was close to catching. In October 2016, Google Chrome was on 54,99% of desktops computers, and in 2017 through August we saw a significant increase in the adoption of Google's browser.
But Chrome wasn't the only browser to see changes last month. Let's see him Mozilla Firefox and the Microsoft Edge.
Firefox lost a market share of one 0,04 percent of the 12,28 percent it held last month.
At the same time, Microsoft's Edge Browser, which is available exclusively on Windows 10, managed to increase its share by just 0,01 percent to finally reach 5,66%, as the application is still trying to persuade users not to use Google's browser.
So if both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox dropped in the last month while Edge noticed a very small upward trend, where did all those looking for a different browser go?
Safari was the browser that saw the biggest increase in adoption rate last month, rising from 3,66% to 3,87%. This means that the trend of switching from Windows to macOS is increasing (?), with many users deciding to use Apple's default browser on operating system the company's.
It remains to be seen whether this trend will be maintained in the coming months. If it does, Microsoft has serious reasons to worry, as users seem to prefer Apple despite the arrival of new versions of Windows 10.
