Safari, iPhone OS, and Mac OS all continued their slow and steady climb in the browser share wars last month, according to the latest data from Net Applications. The firm, which gathers its numbers from visitors to its "member sites," does not offer an entire picture of Apple's market share numbers, but it does show trends in online device usage. And when it comes to Apple's offerings, those trends are looking good on all fronts.

In May of 2009, Safari inched up to 8.43 percent of the browser share numbers (from 8.21 percent in April), while Firefox grew to 22.51 percent (up from 22.47 percent) and Chrome went from 1.42 percent to 1.8 percent. Internet Explorer dipped to 65.5 percent in May, down from 66.1 the previous month. This drop came despite the official release of Internet Explorer 8, though that may change as more average users check out the new offering from Microsoft.

Mac OS X's market share went back up to 9.81 percent in May after making a temporary dip to 9.73 percent in April. Again, Apple has yet to officially crack the 10 percent mark on the desktop, but this small rebound will undoubtedly help the company get closer to that milestone. The iPhone OS also did pretty well in May, too; combine the iPhone and iPod touch numbers from Net Applications, and the total is 0.75 percent—up from a combined 0.70 percent in April. Linux, for those of you who follow the numbers, looks to be down to 0.99 percent from 1.02 in April.

Clearly, the current economic climate has slowed down some of Apple's growth, but the trends are still moving upwards for Safari and the Mac in general.