The stability of any version of IE remains to be a cause for concern for me. Mind you, it's rendering
engine is still that of IE4, and is as old as the rendering engine built into Communicator. The one
thing that has convinced me to steer clear of IE on Windows, is it's very poor security record.
In November, IE had 32 open security vulnerabilities. Since then, there have been two
cumulative roll up patches to fix numerous bugs and security holes in one go, but
as of 31st December 2002, there are still 19 unpatched security holes in IE!
My advice . . . dump IE. There are some far superior, (and far more secure) web browsers out there.
Mozilla . . . (best of the bunch)
http://mozilla.org/releases/
Netscape 7.01 . . . (based and built on Mozilla)
Official release: http://browsers.netscape.com/
DJGM-i Distros: http://djgm-i.net/clubnetscape/
Opera . . . (v7 currently in beta)
http://www.operasoftware.com/
Phoenix . . . (soon to be renamed)
http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/