The problem is with the forms, not necessarily with the browser. There is a certain amount of ambiguity in how HTML is rendered by the browser, so it's possible for two browsers to render a web page quite differently and for both of them to be "right". Good web page designers check the rendering of their forms on multiple browsers and even different versions of popular browsers. Lazy designers just check with whatever version of IE they happen to have loaded on their PC.
Another mistake web page designers make is to assume everyone uses the same screen resolution that they do. It's possible that the designer of your forms had a large, high resolution monitor, so the page would render OK on Firefox for him, but not for you. Again, smart web page designers check at different resolutions, lazy ones do not.
This was a major problem in the early days of the web, when the HTML spec wasn't completely nailed down. Microsoft compounded the problem by adding proprietary extensions to HTML that were only supported by IE. Today, the HTML spec is much tighter and current browsers adhere closely to it. But there's a lot of old web pages out there that don't render properly in a browser that complies with the HTML spec. You might have problems with those forms even with the latest version of IE.
Poor rendering isn't nearly as big of a problem today as it was ten or fifteen years ago. But I still come across web pages that don't render properly on Firefox, even on some very major sites. You should report your problem to the webmaster of the site that owns those forms. His answer may well be "just use IE", but if he's smart he'll realize he can't support just one browser anymore.
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