Thanks for the post but I try firefox, chrome, and recently IE8 beta (all sometimes for many weeks at a time), and I always go back to IE.
My computer ownership has always consisted of cleaning up other people’s discards because they have let them get infected so badly, and I never seem to have a problem with IE after I clean them up and I use my freeware security programs.
See my post #53. What you think are other browsers “problems” probably are actually not, as explained there.
And the primary reason all those “other people’s discards” are so badly infected is because they used IE and Outlook on Windows. While other programs can have security problems, the highest probability is that they were infected through IE/Outlook/Windows. There are quite scientific and educated estimates by security professionals/companies that at least 80% of all the compromised computers worldwide sending spam, connected in malware bot-nets, etc. are the direct result of IE/Outlook/Windows combination. Eliminate that combination and almost all spam and bot-nets worldwide would be eliminated. Then the bad guys would target other programs and O/S’s for sure, but because of the inherent security programmed into the system code from the ground up, they wouldn’t be too successful. At least not as successful as they have been with such a known insecure O/S and programs as IE/Outlook/Windows.