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Story: Firefox achieves 10 percent market share

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Even though Fx users only make up %10, they seem to be more internet-savvy and spend more overall hours browsing the web (ie: browse more websites per capita than IE users) ...

Case in point, my website gets around 50% Fx users, often more than the IE users. Sure, if you look at "mainstream" sites like Google you will probably find the statistics to be more heavily in favor of IE. But, ignoring individual users and simply counting pageloads, I bet you would find that Firefox accounts for ~50% of the traffic. (I would be interested in seeing these statistics)

BoingBoing also recently reported that their website gets a much larger percentage of Fx users than would be expected, something like 30% maybe? I don't remember exactly.

I guess my point is that although Firefox makes up a much smaller share than IE, Fx users are more web-savvy, spend more time on the internet and browse more webpages, so the actual percentage of page-loads by Firefox browsers compared to IE browsers is pretty close. (at least on many tech-related sites, and other sites that web-savvy folks go to ... Let's see the stats for Slashdot, I bet Fx beats out IE by a large margin!)

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