I am a computer idiot, but I find firefox much easier and better than IE as a browser. After a horrible virus on our computer a few years ago my son (a B.S. in computer science) convinced me to switch to firefox. He said it's much less susceptible to virus infection. I really like it better, find it easier to use. And I use gmail insteal of outlook.
I only use IE now for photobucket, which I just can't get to work with firefox.
Karen