How can this be? (he says, dripping w/ sarcasm)

Firefox vulnerable? Impossible! (he says, as a thousand knees jerk in some other direction). The good news is that the migration to Firefox is largely a media creation (to assert that number of downloads correlates to usage is absurd).

Don’t get me wrong – go ahead and use Firefox if you like its features, just don’t believe that it is "more secure" than IE. It is actually new, fertile ground, as we are finding out.