There have been many studies done (including
a famous one by Symantec) that reports that Firefox is NOT more safe than Internet Explorer.
Well, Symantec has recanted by saying the exact same thing that I said: the studies only count vulnerabilities that the vendor ADMITS to. In a
new study, still done by Symantec, they count all vulnerabilities, acknowledged and not, and guess what? Firefox came out on top. To quote the Symantec researcher, "In open source, more vulnerabilities will be acknowledged because of the transparency in development."
So yeah, I'm glad they've cleared that up