What you think of people saying IE>FF

i think they're either
1. stupid
2. never really tried FF

discuss

If you believe it's "easy" to run a completely clean system with IE then you are deluding yourself. Sure, you can disable ActiveX and so on, and run AdAware or Spybot regularly, and install a decent firewall, and install all the critical updates Microsoft issue, but you're still running a browser with security problems that go unfixed for months, and that virus and spyware writers specifically target. Why go to all the effort of patching over the holes in a faulty browser when it's far quicker to just dispense with it altogether? You're just making work for yourself.