You’re not losing much, if anything, if you stick with Chrome instead. This year, Edge (yes, Edge) is our top pick, but don’t get too excited. Last time around, Opera topped our charts as the best browser to get. Support varies based on the operating system's technical capabilities and its support lifecycle.Let’s take a look at the four major options-Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera-to see how they stack up in 2020. Starting January 12, 2016, only Internet Explorer 11 is supported with more security than older versions, according to Microsoft.

Internet Explorer will, however, remain on some versions of Windows 10 primarily for enterprise purposes. This effectively makes Internet Explorer 11 the last release.

On March 17, 2015, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Edge will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser on its Windows 10 devices. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on it by 1999.

Estimates for Internet Explorer's overall market share range from 5.45% to 27.38% or by StatCounter's numbers ranked 3rd, just after Firefox (or even as low as 6th when counting all platforms, after Opera (and behind Safari), as of August 2016. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox and Google Chrome, and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as macOS, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 20.

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