Switching to Internet Explorer

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Like many of the Geek persuasion, I have a built-in dislike for Microsoft's web browser offering, Internet Explorer.  Maybe this was born of being from the Netscape era, and all the baggage associated with the early browser wars.  Maybe it was born from the fact that IE has spent most of its life as a security hole, and displayed no ambition in improving the browser space in which it has ruled for so long. 

I have been mainly using Firefox over the last couple of years, like everyone else, with Chrome as a backup and Safari on the Mac.  This has been working well for me, although I have been looking at moving away from Firefox.  My main gripe with Firefox is that once I get all the extensions and settings right, I only get a months use before it slows down.  I'm not talking about the browsing, I'm talking about the computer.

Unfortunately I'm the kind of guy that wants his browser and would like to use it to.  And it is not like I'm running a lot of extensions, in fact at the moment I only have four, but after being open for a few hours/days it becomes unusable.

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