once again, the age old discussion of what may be better, or is, depending on who you are talking about. This is how I see it. Of all the people that use the internet as part of thier daily lives, maybe 10% of them actually care about which is more secure or which one is cooler and what not. The reason why people stick with IE is for 3 reasons: It comes with 99% of the computers sold in retail stores (like best buy, compUSA or wherever you go), It is "backed" by the company that makes the OS of that 99% number I gave just a moment ago, and finally, it is by far the most compatible web browser, because everything else on the web was written for IE support.

This doesn't say that anything else is bad, it's just that many get used to IE to the point that they not dare touch another browser.

You should Always have 3rd party security programs regardless of whatyou are using, and security? it may have more security, but mozilla browsers are just basically Netscape Navigator 4 on steroids (god bless Netscape Navigator, it brought internet to the common man.)