Interesting. I have two PCs and run Firefox on both. As a comparison, pages open noticably much faster than do those when I use IE.
I've been using firefox for about a year and a half now. Its not too shabby. I'm a fan anyways
Firefox is a little bit slower, but thats basically because windows preloads IE in the expectation that it'll be used (not a bad idea i guess) So they get to cheat a little bit on that front.
In terms of page rendering. I really haven't noticed that much of a performance hit. Usually well made pages respond about the same.
On security. Well the simple fact is people target IE for the same reason because the world targets the us. Its affluent, rich, and "invading" people's lives. Firefox can (and probably will be) broken like everything else.
Somethings kill me about firefox though. It really bugs me that when you click on a link that spawns a new page. Firefox spawns a new page. Seems to me that if your a "tab" browser it should spawn a new tab. Oh well...maybe sometime.
Also... whats the ctrl - o equilivent for firefox? anyone know that one off hand? its been killing me (ctrl-o brings up the url box at the top of the page in IE)
I find this interesting.
It has been my experience that Firefox is almost twice as fast to deliver pages as IE. I have read other posts that mirror both of our experiences. This leads me to believe that there might be some sort of compatibility/configuration or competing software issue that favors one at the expense of the other.
I'm still trying to get used to the way Firefox does bookmarks...