Web browser a web browser installed. The most popular web browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Edge. The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages on dumb terminals; it was released in 1991. 1993 was a landmark year with the release of Mosaic, credited as "the world's first popular browser". Its innovative graphical interface made the World Wide Web system easy to use and thus more accessible to the average person. This, in turn, sparked the Internet boom of
Usage share of web browsers According to StatCounter, , Chrome is the most popular browser on phones (or phones plus tablets). For tablet only browsing, Safari on iPad has 58.8% share, followed by Chrome, which inherited its engine and web standard support; Safari is not available for Android. When counting across all platforms, Chrome is the most popular, and if only desktop platforms are counted, it has more than half of that market. No desktop browser has had a clear majority for a more than a decade, since Internet Explorer lost it, with Netscape once holding the lead before that. Other statistics/analysts show similar numbers.