If virus writers targeted Firefox, it would NOT be as bad as IE. Firefox doesn't auto-execute programs without asking you. Firefox doesn't use ActiveX, which serves two purposes in life: Windows Update and running viruses. Firefox doesn't randomly reset its security settings without asking you. Firefox isn't half-embedded into the Windows kernel. Firefox is open source; when a problem pops up, someone can fix it themselves, rather than wait a few months and see if MS throws you a bone. And MS doesn't give a crap about browser users, because it has the entire market in its pocket. IE hasn't been significantly updated in what, 3 or 4 years?

And of course from a web designer's point of view, IE is a piece of absolute trash. I'd tell people to not use it for that reason alone, even if it WAS easier/better to use or something, which is isn't.

[qq=devilmaykickass]IE is just hassle free compared to all the others that you have to download a MILLION plugins just to make it run and then theres still sites that won't work, plus they're slow on opening unless you have a fastass PC, and even then its still slow on opening, though its faster and more accurate on loading pages, I'll admit.[/qq]

Have you ever actually used Firefox at all? By default with no plugins Firefox is far more feature-rich than IE. Javascript control, popup blocking, tabs, ltype-ahead find, Google search bar, etc. Opera is even more so. Extensions in Firefox can bring it up to the level of Opera. Could you refer specifically to one or two of the millions of plugins required to make Firefox work properly for you?

Firefox opens in less than a second on my computer. Almost instantaneously in Windows, and slower in Linux actually.

[qq=Loony BoB]Does Firefox have all the abilities for things that IE does yet? I tried it back when it was firebird or whatever and it sucked because it couldn't do everything I wanted it to. I remember that I couldn't view some sites like HSBC, where I do my banking.[/qq]

Use Firefox for everything except those sucky pages coded only to work with IE. A personal page, I can see someone not spending the time to test it. A professional page with hired web designers, making pages that only work in IE? There's no excuse. There are less and less of those sites in existence as time goes on, thankfully. Code to standards and your web page will work in IE, Firefox, cell phones, and whatever else you want to throw at it. "My bank's site works" isn't a strength of IE, it's a weakness of the morons who made that site. If you could name another "ability" IE has that Firefox doesn't, that'd be neat.

EDIT: Just saw that MSN article about how Firefox is better than IE. That's sadly amusing.