Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

Forgive me for being <i>that guy</i>, but:<p>&#62; Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.<p>From: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>

According to StatCounter. It's numbers are much different from the other big players (Net Applications, Alexa etc.):<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/statcounter_launches_global_stats_tool.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/statcounter_launches_gl...</a>

*Results may vary.<p>Here's a hint: Look at YOUR traffic and determine what browsers to support.

The title seems a little triumphant for my tastes - wouldn't it arguably be more accurate as "IE6 dips below Firefox in market share"?

Does anyone know where to get current stats on IE5.0 and IE5.5 use? I'm guessing it's below 1% if you look at a wide variety of "general use" sites, like portals and news, but it'd be great to have some solid data on that -- especially to show to clients who request that their sites support it.

<a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20080701-20090306" rel="nofollow">http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20080701...</a><p>That graph shows that ie6 usage dips on weekends (while firefox usage peaks). This seems to suggest that most of the people using ie6 are using it at their workplace and many of them tend to use firefox at home.

It's sort of sad how technologically uninformed most people are, considering how important this stuff has become.

Microsoft still owns about 20% of Firefox I think.

It's about time!