NOT It's faster for some people on some machines.I have both installed on two machines and it opens slower on both of them.I've also noticed that when you first install it it's quite a bit faster, then after you start adding plug-ins and extensions it slows it down .HOWEVER if you're using the tabbed browsing feature to bounce around between a half dozen or so websites there's nothing IE can do that even comes close.It's also much more resistant to spyware and pop-ups than IE.BTW IE running on XP SP2 blocks pop-ups pretty damn good all by itself
Maybe so, but IE is full of problems and comes from Microsoft.
Define runs slower? do you mean load slower, draws pages slower??? Do you pre load it into memory so that its always resident (ie does this by default, firefox does not).