It just hit me why you guys don't think much of FF. You downloaded FF and used it like you were using IE. That's like getting into a new car and using it like a car from 10 years ago. You would wonder where the window cranks are and would lock all the doors individually not realizing that these things are done electronically today.
IE is faster, maybe. When I open FF, I load 7 pages(multple homepages). How long does it take you to open 7 pages in IE? Search on Amazon? I can search from the built-in toolbar for Amazon or Ebay. When I get the results, I can look at 20 or more products without ever leaving the search result page(tabbed browsing). In IE, I have to go back and forth between the results page and each product I want to look at. If you just take the time to learn the advantages to FF, you will never go back to IE ever again. Even my 13 & 16 year olds who aren't very tech savvy would never go back to IE. Oh, and as far as security, not everyone has WindowsXP. I guess they aren't important enough to MS. My daughter uses a Win2000 machine and begged my to get FF back on because the spyware slowed her machine down to a halt. She got tired of running adaware before she could use her machine. Now she runs adaware about once a month.