W3Counter shows FireFox hits 25%

According to W3Counter.com, a free web tracker spread across over 4300 sites, the FireFox browser has reached 25% market share.

Spread between FireFox 2.0 (14.47%), FireFox 1.5 (9.10%) and FireFox 1.0 (1.25%), it vastly outperformed all but Internet Explorer, which is seeing diminishing use.

Opera saw a disappointing market share of 1.28%, even falling below Safaria 2.0 with 1.94%, despite its significantly larger potential install base.

Despite poor performance from Internet Explorer, Microsoft still sit pretty in the OS category, with a total of 93.50% market coverage across all of its versions.

Windows XP remained a very strong 1st, with 84.47% of the market.

Apple Mac OSX held on to 3rd position with 3.87% of the market, sandwiched between Windows 2000 in 2nd and Windows Vista in 4th.

Sadly for Linux it could not beat Windows 98 into the top five, with Linux in 6th having 1.21% coverage compared to Windows 98 in 5th with 1.55%. Clearly there is some bias given that Linux servers are not necessarily used for browsing.

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-05-20