[jonathan lall]

There's no two ways about it, IE holds more than two thirds of the market share (depending on your definintion). Of course, we're not counting number of users that positively choose to use IE, because I suspect that number is rather low. But we must remember that the average IE demographic is much older and drastically less technically-inclined. This means that they not only use the Web less, but are less likely to go to one of the websites that counts market share when they do in fact use the Web (I'm pretty sure WebMD and the American Geriatrics Society don't contribute to the count). Remember also that unmodified IE6 and lower do not use tabbed browsing (like Mozilla and most others) or MDI (like Opera), and thus IE users' browsing habits and methods are both less efficient and use less bandwidth; the simple fact that we have tabs on our browsers makes us compuslively middle-click every other link and load it in parallel (hit), even if we don't read it at all, whereas IE users load in series and have linear histories that take them wherever the pages lead them. While most market share counters aren't counting individual page views at all, this still means that more unique tabbed browser visitors will set them off.

Now, I'm not going to dispute the high numbers from Firefox you're all getting in your website's stats, because it's clear that technically-savvy FIRST students are more likely use Firefox. You can make both a sociological correlation here, and also note that it's actively promoted here on CD and indeed among teams. But if you look closely at your stats, I bet you'll notice that there are a lot of hits from Firefox, but that a) many of them are actually you, and b) there is a much lower hits to unique visitor ratio from IE users.