

Google continues to hold a dominant share of the browser market.

And while these delays impact the rollout of technologies embedded in our browsers, their trajectories have not fundamentally changed. Browser vendors were forced to delay plans to deprecate insecure protocols after realizing it could prevent users from accessing critical health and government websites.

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic Google Chrome delayed expected browser updates, as employees quickly transitioned to working from home. An ever increasing amount of traffic flows through our devices, turning web browsers from our primary gateway to the web into our primary gateway to the rest of the world. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend society, more and more of our daily lives are moving online.
