According to the latest statistics from W3Counter, Internet Explorer is still the favorite browser among Internet users. Internet Explorer 6.0 has a 49.54% market share, while the latest browser from Microsoft, Internet Explorer 7.0 has the 2nd largest share at 16.82%. That gives a total of close to 70% market share! This is not surprisingly as all Windows systems are preloaded with Internet Explorer.
Below is a brief market share of all the major 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% |
Anyway, I think Firefox users are growing quite steadily. So, it’s only a matter of time before Firefox will overtake IE. Let’s see when will that happen.