Actually, as I said in another post, I banned IE at our office (outside of a half-dozen officially allowed sites that demand ActiveX) many years ago, and I have yet to hear *any* legitimate complaints. Most people's questions about Internet use are along the lines of how they can use the same programs at home as they do at the office (particularly FireFox with a few useful extensions, and Thunderbird), and how they can make MSN safe (by using Pidgin instead of the MSN client).
Don't tell me you give *any* credit to the recent Bit9 report? This is a report on application security in which any program included in windows updates is automatically excluded (how else would IE and OE not only miss the pole position, but skip the list entirely?), and any program where bugs are publicly acknowledged is automatically worse off than one which keeps the bugs secret.
Have a quick google about the report - opinion on the net is divided into three camps. There are those who think it was paid for by MS, those who think Bit9 are trying a bit of FUD for self-promotion of their services, and those who think Bit9 have simply done a terrible job here. "Never account to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence".
No one claims Firefox's security is perfect, but its holes are rare, seldom serious, rapidly fixed, and generally require specific targeted website exploits that are seldom seen outside the dark side of the 'net. I have never seen, heard of, or even read about a Firefox user suffering worse than a browser hang or crash due to a security flaw. The same applies to Opera. On the other hand, I have seldom seen a home computer with IE in regular use that has *not* suffered serious problems with toolbars, popups, "search assistants" and the like.
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