Chrome gains third spot, pushes Safari down to 4th spot

Chrome has gone past Safari in browser market share, according to a recent study by a Web measurement company called Net Applications. Net Applications performs analysis and keeps track of the browser habits of 160 million unique visitors on a monthly basis. Currently, Chrome is placed at the 3rd spot pushing Safari down to 4th spot, something which will not please Apple at all.

During the last week, Google released Beta version of Chrome for Mac and Linux which is one of the reason that helped Google’s browser to move past Safari. In the second week (6-12) of December, the search engine giant’s browser share increased to 4.4% topping Safari’s 4.37% market share. On a related note, 1.3%  users used Chrome on Mac OS X aka Snow Leopard powered Macs.
Chrome experienced  an incredible boost in the browser usage sector as it managed to increase its share from 3.81% (during November) to 6.34%.
Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of Net Applications believes that Chrome on Linux platform is an area worth watching:
I believe Linux will be the more intriguing arena to watch. Firefox currently dominates browser usage on Linux the way that IE dominates Windows systems and Safari dominates Mac systems. With the emergence of Chrome, I’ll be curious to see if Chrome will be to Firefox on Linux what Firefox is to IE on Windows … a forceful competitor
As impressive as it may seem, there is no denying that all this is happening due to the people wanting to experiment the latest Beta  offering from Google.
While all this is good news for Chrome, Google will be well aware that it still has a long way to go specially when you consider the fact, that Internet Explorer and Firefox ranked one and two, have a market share of 63.6% and 24.7% (during November) respectively.