Erm, I have a gmail notifier that notifies me of gmail and I don't even have to have a web-browser open

And all my most use websites display along the top of my IE window (below the address bar) as clickable shortcuts to open in new tabs or in the same tab depending how I click them....

Spell checker I don't need, and if I do come across a word I desperately can't spell, it's easily sorted using Google anyway...

True IE doesn't scroll as smoothly as FF, but I can live with that as all the text, icons, and most pictures look ten times better in IE than in FF