Per our conversation in irc. I'd prefer to use Firefox (which works best) first as a smoke test. If IE fails, I'd prefer to know it was in fact IE vs

- there's a new issue that caused the test server to not come up correctly
- there's a network issue
- the test is bad in general and needs fixing in all browsers

If IE is first, I start chasing there first and it's the most expensive one to debug and trace an issue with.