QOTD: Which Browser Do You Use? Why?

Of all the things I like about Safari I love the front renderer. Text just looks better with Safari and spend my day reading articles from RSS feeds so that's kinda important to me. Add the Top Sites feature and it is faster that all the others I use. But some sites work on better on Firefox but I don't care for extensions and some other only work on IE. I tried Chrome and used it until Safari 4 Beta came out and all the benefits of its speed disappeared. And what makes it strange is I run Win7 RC.

I use Opera. My reasons are fairly standard; Speed, skins, speed dial, Opera Sync, the Feed support, the awesome download tab, general functionality, layout and sessions.

Tried the others, they've never got on with me. I just hate IE for screwing with standards and making my life harder.

From my experience, firefox has bad memory management. I switched 2 chrome, but it seems rather slow, and every install of chrome acts like a totally different software, sometimes not working, sometimes fast, slow... i am on safari now, its very fast, but sometimes freezes. I get 5 ms ping on safari, but 550 on chrome...dont know why

Only reason I use firefox is Adblock Plus addon (for banners and all types of adds) and Firebug... But I think Opera is generaly better browser and way faster than any other

I use Firefox - but only because I don't like the layout of the newer versions of IE. I hate having the URL bar at the top. I still use it for the odd site that doesn't work with FF though.

General use - Opera,
Development - Firefox,
Server - Lynx,
to laugh at MS - IE6/7/8.
Firefox is way too slow on Linux to consider it useful,
Opera is brilliant but the web is not ready for standard's compliance,
IE just sucks at everything... run some tests, benchmarks and just generally use it - it's better but IE7 but still not right.
Safari - don't like the renderer - fonts are smoothed regardless of the OS which is not nice for development, I don't like "custom" top bar, I do like the speed though.
Funnily enough it makes sense to use FF3.5 in wine on 64bit linux - even flash works as expected

FF3.5. I love the addons, especially the web developer's toolbar. Seems really quick too (only been using it a few hours though...).

Opera because I like the layout of it. I like the speedial (I know there's now a firefox equivalent add-on) and none of the other password managers come close to the ease and convenience of opera's wand. My one gripe is it won't render certain IE optimized sites which isn't Opera's fault as it is the one which is standards-compliant.

I've just put Firefox 3.5 on to check it out (and to render the odd page that Opera struggles with) and while impressed with it I'll still be using Opera for my day to day browsing needs.

I use IE8, never tried any others - wouldn't ever use Firefox as it has such a stupid name. I browse a few sites occasionally, don't use/need any add-ons. It's only a browser, I don't really care for hundreds of features I'd never use, my only complaint with IE is the Favourites - that's about the only feature I use and it could easily be improved.

Opera because it is fast, safe, user frendly, what all browsers should be but sadly are not.

Firefox, mainly because I've been using it since it was Phoenix, and used Mozilla before that and Netscape before that, so I'm just used to it. I've obviously dabbled in other browers. I went through a period of using IE back when it was the de-facto browser, and remember it being pretty awful; it seems a lot better now, but I still find it akward to use. I used Opera as my main browser for a maybe a year or a little less, and found it to be slightly less usable and reliable than Firefox. I also tried Chrome when it was first released but it was lacking important features at that time. I'll probably give it another shot in the near future.

They all seem pretty much the same to me so at the moment I'm using Chrome because of the added security. I think once Chrome gets some additional support it will be really great.
I understand their idea for maximising screen area but the lack of a decent length status bar is a real issue as you can't check exactly where a link is going to take you.

I have tried Firefox and liked it a lot however I found it was very very slow on my Netbook and old laptop (an old Athlon 1200).

I'm tempted to try Opera but I have no real interest in trying Safari. In the end there isn't much difference between the different browsers and most of the performance is dependent on the website you're visiting.

If I could make one change it would be to get rid of flash. It usually takes an age to download a flash site and when you do it's often loud, garish, and full of bugs or viruses... Flash is the main reason for sandboxing a web browser IMO.

I use Firefox 3.5, IE8, Chrome and Safari. All at the same time every day. All on Windows XP. Why? Well I visit a large selection of websites regularly, and I always used the same browser for the same sites, so its always easy to find the site I want to look at by seeing its associated browser icon on the task bar. I also like using the different software, its interesting. I do find IE8 to be a terrible memory hog, but its fine to use. Firefox seems the most stable and I like the plugins. I like Safaris cool looking interface too. To be honest I'm really not bothered as long as the page i am viewing works properly, and all the browsers show whatever pages i have looked at properly, and been fairly intuitive to use so I'm going to keep on like this.

I use Firefox because for some reason on my PC, Internet explorer 7 seems to be very slow to load the first page and subsequent tabs.

Common misconception:
That site load speed is "mostly" dependant on the site/your connection. With sites (the text part) being up to a few hundred KB, it should barely take a second for the entire page to render if it was entirely bandwidth reliant. Yet, on crappy browsers (IE) and crappy computers, it's far longer. Images, of course, will slow this down. But, even once the page has loaded, the Javascript and AJAX stuff will still take longer on a crappy browser/PC.

I have tested all browsers on speedtest.net, all test done numerous time and on the same way. Like I said, fastest is safari, slowest is chrome, which i find it strange... what i hate the most is memory crashes, and it seems that IE8 and Opera are the best when it comes to memory management.

Opera 10 beta on my windows 7 RC laptop, and Opera 9.64 on my desktop and on internet pc at work. Opera is the only choice for anyone who wants anti-phising, anti ads, fast and efficient (on slower pcs it is so fast with such a small memory footprint). The GUI is just awesome in its configurable nature, the support for other web tools is incredible, built in email client, irc client, torrent client, download manager.

Proud to be an Opera user for over 10 years, I loved it so much I paid for the browser when it wasnt free.

I've been using mostly FF since v0.8, initially just to try it out, then I very quickly found I could not live without the tabs, so that alone meant I rarely used IE, and with the search engine thingy and better performance simply ensured I stuck with it.

At that time Opera was not free (except the ad supported version), Chrome didn't exist and Netscape was rubbish. It was also about the time I first started dabbling with Linux, which came with crap like Konqueror and basically Firefox was the only decent cross platform browser around.

The two main problems were that initially, like other non-IE browsers it didn't work well with some websites that were only built for IE, and the memory management was very poor.

Since then I have tried them all, didn't think much to Chrome, it was OK but not good enough to pull me away from FF. Opera is good but just not to my taste, I would use it if there was no FF. Safari didn't appeal to me very much. As for IE7, that is painfully slow, I have to use it at work and even though it's much better than IE6, it's tabs are just not that responsive at all compared to FF and rendering takes forever, IE8 does seem a bit better but I still find FF3.0 better.

The only real thing I found wrong with FF

Damn, it cut the end off:
"The only real thing I found wrong with FF" ...
... was the memory management which is much better in FF 3.5 (something like that, can't remember wait I typed the 1st time).

Minefield 'cause its fast

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In the office IE6
I used to use FF lots - but now Chrome is winning for any web apps. However, for many sites like this and DEV, the add-on in FF keep it on top. Ad-block and flash-block is a must.