This last week was a good one for new browsers versions. In terms of global usage, IE 8 has just crossed IE 7 and Firefox 3.5 has just crossed Firefox 3. This won't show up in tomorrow's August report from Net Applications, because they average the whole month and for most of the month, the newer versions were still behind. Septeber's report should show the newer versions well ahead of the older versions (with the exception of IE 6 which still holds a several point lead over IE 8 and IE 7.)
Posted by: David Naylor | August 31, 2009 12:08 PM
Stumbled upon this data, and wondered if one reason that ie6 usage share seem so high is that it is the preferred user-agent by robots.
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/robot_useragents.php?dt=7
Posted by: AndersH | August 31, 2009 1:30 PM
AndersH, I believe that the various website metrics packages from folks like Net Applications, Google Analytics, StatCounter, etc. etc. are all doing a reasonably good job of filtering out robots. If they're not, who would pay for them?
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler | August 31, 2009 1:48 PM
when will ie6 die? it needs to go away.
Posted by: morganjames | September 12, 2009 5:52 PM
Yes, Firefox 3.5 has really picked up some steam since the update was pushed.