Chrome has overtaken Firefox to climb up the podium to second widely used browser, and Windows 7 is the most popular operating system, according to a report from technology website Arstechnica.
Chrome, which was ahead in the race, declined in June and July but by August, its growth resumed but not enough to beat Firefox.
In the same month Windows 7 overtook its predecessor, Windows XP.
According to Arstechnica, Internet Explorer is down 0.3 points to 53.6 percent. Firefox dropped 0.15 points to 20.05 percent. Chrome picked up 0.23 points to 19.13 percent. Safari gained 0.2 points to 5.1 percent, while Opera was essentially unchanged, down 0.01 points to 1.58 percent.
Safari is by far has the biggest mobile browser market charting up 66.43 percent in the worldwide mobile browser market share, according to the site. The rise of Safari is due to its dual platforms, the iPhone, and iPads.
Windows 7 took nearly three year to overtake Windows XP.
Even among Apple users, there are plenty of users who use older versions but it has seen to it that the majority of the users use current versions. Chrome is constantly upgrading with efficiency and Firefox is trying to keep-up with it.
Arstechnica reports:
While the past 18 months have seen almost too many versions of Chrome and Firefox to count, Internet Explorer remains at version 9. Version 10 is finished, and it's part of Windows 8, which is already available to corporate customers. The downloadable version for Windows 7, however, isn't out yet, and Microsoft has given no indication of when it will be made available. October 26, the day of Windows 8's general availability, is one plausible guess.
