Nowhere did I say dump IE. What I said was my Java installation was all jacked up and that was causing my troubles. First I forgot to say I had a trojan downloader packed in my JRE files.
Now why I just happened to mention Firefox was because of the plugins available which is the only reason I use Firefox.
A total uninstall(including all of the JRE updates) and fresh install of Java was the cure for me .
Chill, you should expect any MS product to get dissed, it is just the popular thing to do these days I guess.
Dan