In response to some of the questions on my entry yesterday about Firefox vs. IE in O’Reilly Network Logs, Andrew Odewahn provided some further data:
I did some more digging into the “Other” category since there seemed to be a lot of interest in it. It appears that the decline was due to a steep drop in use of Opera starting in June of last year (about the time Opera 9 released). It seems like that traffic just dropped off. The rebound has been from the growth in Safari and (surprisingly, to me at least) Mozilla. The “Other Other” category is everything else except Firefox, MSIE, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, and Netscape.
Here’s the graph with the details:
