IE is a system requirement of Windows, but I never use it. Firefox has been good to me over the last couple of years. The level of control you can have over it is very good and there are plenty of fine quality add-ons such as Flash Block, Foxy Spider, DownThemAll and so on. I don't know why anyone would use IE and I haven't been persuaded to switch to anything produced by Google (who I don't like).