IE is bad for many reasons I don't care to list here. I have been working in the PC support field for over 10 years and IE = Headache for everyone. FireFox is the best browser to use and to use the IE Tab Gooner spoke about you will have to download the IE Tab extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
Once installed you can set certain pages/domains to always open with an IE Tab (www.auctiva.com) and then you don't have to worry about it any more.