FireFox is increasing its share in the browser market

Following are the stats taken from w3counter.com. And the analysis is made on last 31,612,302 unique visits to 5,636 websites.Internet Explorer occupies the top slot with 49.54% users.Surprisingly Internet Explorer occupies Second Slot with 16.82% which has got most of its share from Internet Explorer 6.0.Firefox 2.0 Occupies the third slot with 14.47% almost gaining 2% from the previous stats. It clearly indicates the Mozilla firefox is gaining the Market share of Internet Explorer.

Web Browsers
1 Internet Explorer 6.0 49.54%
2 Internet Explorer 7.0 16.82%
3 Firefox 2.0 14.47%
4 Firefox 1.5 9.10%
5 Safari 2.0 1.94%
6 Firefox 1.0 1.25%
7 Opera 9.0 0.77%
8 Mozilla 1.8 0.66%
9 AOL 6.0 0.58%
10 Opera 9.1 0.51%
Operating Systems
1 Windows XP 84.47%
2 Windows 2000 4.28%
3 Mac OS X 3.87%
4 Windows Vista 1.94%
5 Windows 98 1.55%
6 Linux 1.21%
7 Windows 2003 0.67%
8 Windows ME 0.52%
9 Windows NT 0.07%
10 Mac PowerPC 0.07%

Though Mozilla is gaining the market share in the browsers, desktops O/s is completely dominated by Microsoft .

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