TUAW reports that Apple's web browser Safari has seen positive growth among users for 17 months in a row, but this past July was the best of them all. Safari's usage share jumped 0.6 percent last month, bringing its total market ownership to 8 percent of all web users. That usage spike was bigger than Google's Chrome browser, which gained 0.3 percent to control 13 percent of the market.
Apple's iPad and iPhone sales are certainly helping, as iOS devices made up over a third of all users last month.
Both Safari and Chrome are taking the lunch money from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, and the Opera browsers. Internet Explorer is still the big dog in the pack, holding onto 52 percent of the market; that hold, however, is slipping every month, having been as high as 60 percent last September. Firefox fell to 21 percent, and Opera, barely breathing, has dropped to 1.6 percent.
The data for the report came from Net Applications who tracks browser usage on a monthly basis.
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