Hi CharleyO,
One thing we must conclude, and that is to the benefit of all.
Always update and always patch continuously. That is one of the basic secrets. Then a great help is to surf with normal users'rights, and to reduce the users' rights for processes with a program like ShareEnum. very informative program to see where your policies are wrong. Only allow scripts when you really cannot do without it also helps a lot towards safe browsing, whatever type of browser you may use. The final conclusion for me burns down to this "a browser is as secure as the owner who uses it". Period.
polonus