[RobRoy]

I switched to firefox a few months age. I used to use Adaware all the time to keep things clean. I was talking to a friend yesterday about all the problems he is having with popups and it suddenly occurred to me: I haven't used Adaware since I switched, I haven't had ANY popups since I switched and my computers have all run trouble free ever since. I've gotten to where I just take it for granted...

[Griptilian]

Adaware does not scan Firefox cache. It can't.
The fine folks at Mozilla don't want you or a program to scan or view the 'temporary files'.

Why?
I don't know.

About two weeks ago, I highlighted some text, right clicked on it and selected "Search web for" which took me to Google. Google refused to do a search claiming I had spyware or a virus [in Firefox].

After doing a scan for a virus: nothing.
Firefox was acting goofy though.

I cleared the cache and I was able to search again.

To this day, I don't know if there is spyware in Firefox. Based on some of the new registry entries I didn't install [but deleted], I'd guess it was spyware.

Firefox is OK for surfing forums and simple html as such, but anything more 'interactive' and it's a real slug if not a dud. It's not OK for doing any secure transactions because you really have no way of knowing what's going on with it [spyware, etc].

Disable active-x in IE and go over the security options real well, like everyone should, and I'd be willing to bet IE is more functional and more secure than Firefox could ever dream to be.

The worst I've ever had with IE was tracking cookies and I have that handled now. Firefox continues to ignore almost half of it's settings in options and allows all cookies, and I've noticed it likes to open files I have listed to not open but only save.

That list of problems go on almost endlessly, but most people don't put their browsers through the tests like I do. Firefox usually fails at everything, then gives me no access to the cache to see what's really in there. (there's a little trick with IE's cache to view ALL files the same as any other regular folder, giving me complete access).

Don't be fooled by Firefox, they seem to have something to hide and they rarely fix their bugs, let alone recognize them.
After ignoring their shortcomings and downfalls, they don't say they have problems and people believe there must not be any.

Did you ever really think about that?