Re: I may add...
fairly silly remark, not sure what land you live in but i've worked with many talented developers who only use IE
Me too. Well, at first they only used IE anyway. Then they come to me with questions - "How do I see the request and response headers?", "How do I choose a different proxy based upon destination website?", "How do I single step my javascript code?", "What does 'Object expected' mean?"
It may be different now, IE actually has some developer tools to speak of, but anyone developing websites in the past 5 years ago who wasn't doing most of their work in Firefox or (eventually) Chrome was totally wasting their time, since the debug features just aren't there.
Even now, for doing certain debug tasks in IE you are better off using Fiddler, rather than the simplicity of chrome's approach.