You're weird. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I finally got IE9 installed.  But I also reinstalled my OS (Vista 64-bit) on my fancy new Solid State Drive (SSD).  It actually installed unlike when I tried the 32-bit one on my HDD.  It's clean, minimal, not my style.  But it's loads webpages FAST. (Could be the SSD's speed.) I can't figure out how to add your own sites to the "Your Most Popular Sites" when adding a new tab.  It only lists the sites you've recently visited.  I wanna PIN my favorites permanently.

And there's not as many options available, let alone dual-pane browsing, like Maxthon 2.5.15 (my browser) has.  Lame.

I would still use IE7 if I had to.  This release was definately NOT worth the wait.  Sticking to Maxthon now, however old it may be.

The current version is 3.0

I never said that I was using the newest version.  That's the version (2.5.15) i'm currently using.  I still like custom themes (which IIRC, 3.0 doesn't have yet),   

I'm still experimenting with the new browsers.  IE9 sucks, and Opera 11 i may keep.  I have yet to try the others.

And another thing about IE9, the download manager doesn't list the transfer rate.  Just an estimated time.  I always like to know my download speed, ALWAYS!  Epic fail MS.

Ah .. was wondering why you were using 2.5. I do like using Opera but the three banking sites I go to don't like it at all. Now that Firefox (and Pale Moon) are running so well and I was not using Opera on my computers. Uninstalled it yesterday *sigh*

:'(

I'm beginning to like FF4. Running nice and smooth.

Been using IE9 for a few weeks now and I put Chrome and Firefox up against it to see how all three would perform against each other over a short period of time..........My main 'want' was speed closely followed by 'usability'..............Firefox did not stay for too long and went in the bin. It was just no match in the 'speed department' to the other two. When I have a bit of spare time I'll try Pale Moon. So, IE9 and Chrome were 'face to face'...............after a short time it was quite apparent that one browser was much quicker than the other and to my surprise Chrome won hands down. I've been a long time user of IE but I have to admit that Chrome has come a long way and will be the 'beast of choice' from now until the next big changes. But, as they say, 'each to their own'..........everyone has their opinion but it still surprises me how many people rave about Firefox......but I guess that is because of its looks, add-ons and customability.........it certainly can't be for its page loading.   

I don't.

No thanks! Chrome is it for me right now.

I do not know if it is more secure. But to answer your question, there are 2 reasons for the perception it is less secure.

#1 - Microsoft is a bigger bunny and it gets more news coverage (I am up to FF 3.6.16 - 16 bug fixes on FF alone since the 3.6 release).

#2 - It is tied into the OS which gives hackers an easier route to compromise the computer as a whole.

Microsoft announces their bug fixes and the world listens.  Firefox just fixes them.

Exactly. No fanfare, no beating around the bush. Do it and have done. No need for announcement. If its broke fix it. Done.

Oh, I think there is one on the way!

IE has one good point. It's there to download Firefox.