Package · npm
default-browser
npm · v5.5.1 · MIT
Get the default browser
Install
npm install default-browserAdoption
- Downloads (30 days)
- 245.3M
- Observeddownloads / 30 days
- Popularity
- Top 10% on npm
- Derived96th percentile within npm
- Dependents
- 260
- Observedpackages that depend on it
- Maintenance
- 0.56
- DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
- Releases per year
- 1.3
- 16 versions over its life
Growth by period
Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of npm’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.
- 7 days
- Collectinghistory
- Collecting
- 30 days
- +4.7% · 30d
- Derived+11.1M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
- 90 days
- +38.7% · 90d
- Derived+68.4M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
- 1 year
- +323.3% · 1y
- Derived+187.3M downloads / 30 days, NOV 3 → OCT 24
Adoption history
Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations
Table of observations (13)
| Day | downloads / 30 days | Dependents |
|---|---|---|
| OCT 24, 2026 | 245,262,256 | 260 |
| OCT 5, 2026 | 252,582,676 | Not observed |
| OCT 4, 2026 | 252,582,676 | Not observed |
| OCT 3, 2026 | 256,971,730 | Not observed |
| OCT 2, 2026 | 251,191,726 | Not observed |
| OCT 1, 2026 | 250,885,883 | Not observed |
| SEP 30, 2026 | 248,395,120 | Not observed |
| SEP 29, 2026 | 244,607,137 | Not observed |
| SEP 28, 2026 | 235,362,608 | Not observed |
| SEP 27, 2026 | 226,783,483 | Not observed |
| SEP 26, 2026 | 230,395,706 | Not observed |
| SEP 25, 2026 | 235,281,017 | Not observed |
| SEP 24, 2026 | 234,164,863 | Not observed |
Facts from the registry
- Latest version
- v5.5.1
- 16 versions
- First published
- JAN 27, 2014
- Last release
- AUG 16, 2026
- 2mo ago
- Licence
- MIT
Repository
Not in the Crest catalog
sindresorhus/default-browser (GitHub, opens in a new tab)
The catalog tracks GitHub repositories with more than 500 stars; this one has no Crest page, so its figures are not shown here.
Dependencies latest version · v5.5.1
Runtime 2
- bundle-name
^4.1.0 - default-browser-id
^5.0.0
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