Mac OS nears 10% Web Usage; Safari Gains at the Expense of IE, faster than Firefox; iPhone Gains on Linux


Apple's Safari Web browser gained over 1-percentage point during the most recent sampling from . Net Applications tracks Web trends. The past three months saw Apple gains from 7.13% to 8.29%. IE fell fell over 2.2% to 67.55%. Firefox rose 0.75% to 21.53%, compared to Safari's 1.16% rise. During the same period, Chrome gained 0.29%. The introduction of Chrome during this period may have affected the rate of Firefox adoption, which may account for all but 0.12% of Safari's edge. Chrome is not yet available for Mac and Linux.

For the past 12 months, Safari saw gains of 2.47%, Firefox 4.55%, and IE lost 7.62%. Over a full point of Safari and IE's gains came out of IE, while the new Google Chrome to date has gained 1.12% since it hit the radar in September.

On the operating system side, during the last three months Mac OS gained 1.72% to nearly breach the 10% demographic at 9.98%. The iPhone outpaced Linux with growth of 0.15% for the #3 slot at 0.48%, behind Linux at 0.83%. On the past rolling 12 months, Mac OS is up 2.47%.