Well, While I concur that there are some really cool plug-ins for firefox, the "security" argument is just false. There are tons of holes in Firefox too....
http://search.us-cert.gov/query.html...irefox&x=0&y=0
Even my favorite, Opera
http://www.opera.com/ has security issues.
http://search.us-cert.gov/query.html...=opera&x=0&y=0
A big problem with mozilla's patching is that you have to get a whole new build of the app, not a patch.
http://www.mozilla.org/
Of course all three of these browsers are much better than the latest netscape iteration
http://www.netscape.com/ a java based monstorsity. I used to love netscape back before the went all java codebase (plus I think AOL bought them)...
Anyway, I am curious, do any of you run open source OS'es?