FireFox as a Security Risk Compared to IE?

A not-so anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "The administrator at my work gave me the following reason for not using Mozilla. What do you think? 'FireFox is a security risk. Please refrain from using it. Please continue to use IE 6.0. IE is our only supported browser. FireFox saves encrypted pages to disk and does not give you override capability. It also does not allow automatic cache clearing when closing a browser. These are security risks.'" Do any of you have information that could be used to contradict the administrators information on FireFox? Are there configuration options one can reach from about:config that a user can use to address the problem this administrator has cited?

Comments

Your admin is an MCSE, isn't he?

[dacarr]

If he's less concerned about viruses, spyware, trojans, and in fact any malware, and more concerned about an encrypted cache document not being deleted (again, a bogus concern), he needs to be disposed of by way of being fired. But that's just my opinion.