Actually, the last time I did a lot of measuring, Firefox was slower for our app than IE. Admittedly this was a few releases of Firefox ago (FF3 was significant

Actually, the last time I did a lot of measuring, Firefox was slower for our app than IE. Admittedly this was a few releases of Firefox ago (FF3 was significantly slower than FF2 as well). I'm no fan of IE, but it isn't nearly as universally bad as the web dev community says it is, and generalizations are risky.