All Web browsers are insecure to some degree, though, because they all must work with flawed code in the operating systems. There are some indications of progress, such as frequent patches from Microsoft and Mozilla Latest News about Mozilla Foundation to close security holes. Still, these actions may be too little too late if a zero-day exploit is the attack weapon.
Great article Humpty. Anyone who persists with IE is obviously potty from the eyebrows upwards. Use Firefox with the No script extension. It's much safer.
I'm happy with No-Script. It does indeed require some attention whenever you visit a new page, but after some time, I myself has noticed that allowing new, trusted sites goes somewhat automatically. When you have gotten used to it, you really don't want to surf the web without it. You know, this does prevent some nasty javascript related exploits in Firefox =)