I remember back a while ago, a friend of mine used Mozilla Firefox to combat his serious popup problem that was caused by IE's poor browsing security system. I recommended him Firefox because I myself had been using it for years and it has been a reliable internet browser with a great security.
That was 2007.
I uninstalled Mozilla Firefox today. Why, you ask?
Consider, for one thing, every mainstream website I visit, including C4DCafe and others, have the most ridiculous advertisement system ever.
I don't mean a popup box. Those get blocked very easily. I mean advertisements that redirect you to some shitty gift website, and advertisements that somehow open up Adobe Acrobat Reader for no reason.
This has happened to me 8-9 times an hour of browsing, and Firefox's system of blocking it consists of doing nothing at all about it. On account of the ads, I had to restart the system so many times, so many crashes that I couldn't take it and decided to go into Safe Mode.
I ran a virus check, absolutely nothing on my computer besides tracking cookies which I promptly deleted. Then I used my other browser, Google Chrome. Chrome's system of security is not much better, just a page that redirects to "Warning! This site has been reported to contain malware!" And, while its showing me this, somehow, magically, Acrobat pops up again, using up 100% of my processor like an old French whore.