The battle waged between Internet Explorer and Firefox has become a topic known by every Internet user in the world.

Ever since Mozilla Foundation's browser started its virtual world campaign, there have been different statistics, some of them published on Softpedia, on which browser is the hotshot in percentages, the winner, the loser and so on.

The general trend of these statistics was to say that Internet Explorer's market share was steadily decreasing, and Firefox was slowly increasing, but there were also some which claimed that Internet Explorer was plummeting and that Firefox had reached the amazing 25 percent market share.

In an article published yesterday, Internet News announced that Firefox had successfully reached the 10 percent market share, and according to the NetApplications site tracker, the number of Firefox users reached 9.57 percent as of last month, which translated into a 1% leap.

Confused by all these analyses and statistics, we decided to check our own oracle, the Softpedia traffic, and to find out the ratio between the two browsing solutions.

To our great surprise, we noticed that despite the 10% market share associated with the open-source community's browser our numbers showed a staggering 20% and indicated a positive trend, materialized in December with almost 23 percent.

We are not implying that the studies carried out by other companies are erroneous, just that for Softpedia's users, Firefox is becoming more and more tempting.

However, although there's a big gap between the figures, the conclusion is obvious, the fox is growing every month and it's unlikely that Internet Explorer 7 will be able to stop it.