I've been doing fine on this homebrew system for 6 years with IE and keeping protections up-to-date. It amazes me the number of people who post they've been infected multiple times.
I don't think having to find fixes and workarounds for alternative browsers or having to switch back over to IE for some pages worth it. I want things to work on websites I visit and to be able to see my pages the way the average surfer will see them, not to mention the IE browser integrations I have become accustomed to.
