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[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Firefox is too slow.

Hmm, sorry to disagree pevergreen, but, for me at least, IE 7 is relatively slow compared to Firefox.

Apple recently performed some tests with their own browser, Safari. They tested its performance vs IE 7, Firefox and Opera. You can find the results here.

Unsurprisingly Safari won overall, while Firefox was, on average second. Opera was third, while IE came marginally last.

Plus, I have never got a virus from IE...

IE, although it never delivered me a virus, always provided me with spyware. This assortment mostly consisted of tracking cookies, although a few key loggers hacked in once or twice.

When I began using Firefox, the number of tracking cookies detected weekly dropped from about thirty to five. After using AdBlock +, this further dropped to one/two. Now, with NoScript installed, no cookies have turned up whatsoever.

Despite this, IE is, undoubtedly, more vulnerable to dodgy ActiveX controls and scripts. Not because it has more security holes, although it may, but because it is the most used browser. As you may expect, malware targets it for this reason. This effect is amplified, since IE gains security updates much less frequently that the majority of other browsers.

...and, no pop ups ever, thanks to inbuilt pop-up-blocker.

Firefox has a pop-up blocker which, to me, seems to be much more effective than IEs - although IE prevents most pop-ups nice and easily, a few manage to navigate around it.