Quote Originally Posted by WizBang
I've not dug in deep on the security issues, but do you happen to know what handles the Javascript and plugins in msie?
'What' as in... ?

AFAIR, Sun has an exe running that Javascripts in the browser delegate their tasks to... But, honestly, I have not worked too much in Java and don't know much...
Quote Originally Posted by WizBang
Are there really any good sites worth visiting which can't be viewed in FF?
Oh, actually a lot of Microsoft websites (ASP) were not Firefox compatible... Till recently (before MSDN got renovated) many MSDN pages and subscriber downloads did not work well with Firefox.

I think this problem stemmed not only from poor development effort (sure there are many not-so-good web developers out there) but also from the fact that FF has gained in popularity in the last few years, and legacy monstrous web-systems did not (or probably could not) change quickly to suit the new rendering technology.

Having said that, it is of course not impossible that Firefox also shipped with a set of bugs that caused a lot of web-developers one sleepless night too many.