The Time of Alternative Browser Innocence is Over:

Simply switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox or some other web browser may not be the panacea for all web based attacks it once was.
Keeping your web browser up to date is however the best form of defence.

“An interesting new paper on how different web browsers do security updates reveals that the implementation of this feature can have a big impact on the overall security. Google Chrome is leading the pack; it checks for updates every 5 hours, silently updates to the most secure version without the need to restart the browser, and doesn’t even let users disable the silent updates. As a result, 97% of users have the latest, most secure version installed. “