IE7 has an anti-phishing feature as well.
Anyways, I posted this already, but the long and short of it is this. I did some tests with the three browsers and a bunch of antivirus programs. I have a particular website that is chock full of autoloading spyware, virii and malware, as well as every download pretty much being infected as well. Crappy site for the average user, but excellent for me.
All three browsers let all of it pass. None of them blocked any of it. Only Avast! detects these threats and blocks them. It will actually shut down the webpage and the server will then disconnect.
The point? ActiveX is no longer THE threat and all three browsers are vulnerable to serious infections. Therefore, there is absolutely no sense crippling the web by viewing it with Opera or Firefox because neither one can protect you. Not to mention that Firefox renders webpages the slowest of the three and it screws up webpages because they are either coded for IE, which is most often the case, or because they utilize ActiveX.
Get IE7, coupled with Avast! and PrevX1, and you will be in fine shape.