Many a user has been looking forward to Firefox's arise, and the latest numbers seem to confirm its ever growing popularity. September figures showed Firefox trailing IE6 by 1.4%, whereas October saw Firefox beating its fierce competitor by 1.2%.

It's well worth noting that while IE6 is pretty old by anyone's standards, it still remains the most popular version of IE as versions 7 and 8 command 18.6% and 20.5% of the market, respectively.

World-wide browser usage figures still put IE (all versions) at 64.64% and Firefox at 24.07%, but Firefox has finally managed to beat the most used of the lot - IE6, which is definitely a milestone in its own right. (Not really... sub.ed.)

October usage statistics figures put Safari and Chrome at about 4% whereas Opera stands at around 2%. It's also interesting to note that only Opera and IE saw decline in popularity in October.

You can find detailed statistics here.