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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
Why would I change?
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Because it does things that no internet connected software should do in terms of security risks. This might not be such a big deal but because of its wide adoption it is the primary target of people with malicious intent.
If Firefox gets 50% market share then it too will start to experience more security issues, but most not IE browsers are built with security policies that prevent many of the manipulations that send corporate IT people into panics every few weeks when some new weakness is found.
Of course, that has nothing to do with why I switched. I switched to Firefox because it had tabbed browsing funcationality and the gain in security was just a good side-benefit.