Well, have been looking at this seriously (and have heard it all before). Have spent a fair amount of time in the last couple of days working with Google Chrome. Not over impressed. First had to rid it of some search system called trovigo (or something like) and in another place it was using Yahoo. I would have thought that inherently the search system that was there when you fire up would be Google. Of course, it turned out that it had a couple of bugs in it - Chrome and not Internet Explorer.
Also tried Firefox for a brief time. Quickly found that I had to load a security update so that had obviously had holes in it.
Back to Chrome - I suppose I might get used to it but there are a few features I do not like. Seems to struggle to layout some websites on the screen. Would prefer to have an edit bar and in general one has to ferret around to get toolbars in place. What is really bad is that with some operations it is incredibly difficult to find out how to undo the operation.
Some of the points made in the quote - and here I am not arguing, merely observing:
If nasties get by your virus checker/firewall surely there is a problem with that application.
Machine running slow can be due to several other causes.
Odd emails - according to my expert major problem here is/was problem with Btinternet when they tied up with Yahoo making email accounts easy to hack. Nothing to do with IE.
Bank account empty - since banks take the hit for internet fraud (well mine does) I find it hard to believe they would accept online customers using IE.
One of the major bugs this year has been the Heartbleed Bug and I do not think that was IE unique.
I do feel that with the majority of users using IE and particularly those who do not bother with a virus checker/firewall that is where the criminal will concentrate its activities which, I will accept might be a good reason for steering away from IE, but I cannot accept that other browsers are faultless.
