I can think of only one thing IE does better: I can hit Command-up arrow and Command-down arrow to jump to the top or bottom of a page. Mozilla doesn't have this key sequence. Yet.
Why I don't use Safari: I depend on my bookmarks. I like to file things in carefully designated topic categories (I still have meticulously organized Eudora email files dating back to 1995, likewise 2 file cabinets full of paper Stuff). When Safari lets me import and export bookmarks at will, I'll consider using it.
UPDATE: Mozilla is at a turning point. Here's the dish:
1. Netscape the web browser/suite is dead. RIP 2. All Netscape employees have either been laid off or reassigned to another AOL TW division. 3. There are no longer any AOL employees directly paid to work on Mozilla. 4. The non-profit and independent Mozilla Foundation has been started and will control Mozilla development. Notice the new web site at www.mozilla.org 5. Mozilla is NOT dead, far from it. 6. AOL TW will donate $2 million over the next 2 years. Since the Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, companies (including AOL TW) can continue to donate money basically for free since they can use it to reduce their taxes. AOL will also continue to support Mozilla in areas such as domain names, servers, bandwidth, etc. 7. IBM and Sun, among other companies, have said they will continue to support Mozilla. 8. A good portion of the former Netscape developers will continue to work on Mozilla. Some have even gotten hired by companies like IBM and Sun to continue to work on Mozilla. Depending on donations, the Mozilla Foundation will be able to keep some Mozilla developers on full-time pay.I don't care whether it's called Mozilla or Netscape as long as it has the features I like. And if another browser supercedes it in features I want, I'll use that one.
UPDATE: I downloaded and played a bit with Camino and Firebird. Neither are ready for prime-time. Both duplicate some but not all of Netscape 7.1's features with an Aqua interface (making it more superficially OSX-like, for those who care). My suggestion: keep 7.1 preference settings and features, and even add more if you want (but make sure they work and that I can turn off the ones I don't want), junk all the functions except the browser, rebuild it on top of the fastest OSX compatible engines and whatnot if necessary, make the interface Aqua to the extent that it's not annoying (I find the Aqua interface very annoying in general - it was the major factor keeping me from moving to OSX for 6 months), allow any importing and exporting of any bookmarks from any other browser (open-source, remember?), make sure all the optional plug-ins and extensions work with each other. And add key sequences to jump to the top and bottom of a page.
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