[MP-Ryan]

Browser of choice?  Firefox 3.0.  Its a great mix of compatibility, speed, and extensibility.  IE7 is at least a credible browser unlike IE6 which was far too long in the tooth and is unfortunately still around in far too many numbers.  Safari is light and fast but I find the UI a bit jarring at times...not a strictly Mac OS X person so that may be my issue.  Sometimes it seems so simple its hard.  Chrome is similar both technologically and with the same sort of UI issue where its so simple its missing something for me.

Opera is nice, full featured, but some websites render improperly for it (bad coding often the cause) and its just a little different when it comes to UI.

Safari and IE wouldn't know W3C standards if they reared up, came to life in the form of a large, angry bear, and bit the developers of those two programs squarely on the ass.

While neither FF nor Opera is fully W3C-compliant, they at least make an honest attempt.  Safari and IE6 can't even handle CSS properly.

[Gortef]

FF on my workstation (W2k has only IE6). IE7 on my homestation and IE8 Beta2 on my laptop.
But I do have also FF3 and  Opera installed on my homestation just for kicks and giggles.

[NGTM-1R]

IE.

I have Firefox, I simply can't be bothered using it, or for that matter upgrading to the latest failfox version. IE works well enough for anything I've had to do so far.

[Colonol Dekker]

Firefox wins,

[Solatar]

Firefox takes a second longer to load the program than IE, but it loads the pages significantly faster.

[Scuddie]

I would say quite the opposite.  IE is much lighter and seems to have a much easier time loading.

It's really too bad IE6 was so damn insecure, it would have been my browser of choice. .

[Fenrir]

The program itself loads faster upon startup, but webpages take much longer in IE from my experience.

[Jeff Vader]

And the damn bugger is still unable to filter out ads.

[fener]

Ever since I moved to Firefox it seems to have found a way to crash about every 2 days. It never ends.

That's definitely not normal, Firefox 3 has been the most stable one for me so far and since it's initial release only crashed a couple of times so far.

This could help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes

As for why I use Firefox, it's for the extensions like Adblock Plus (block ads, images and more), CustomizeGoogle (easy way to tweak your Google experience) and of course NoScript (to allow flash,javascript etc only on pages that you need)

[Nordwin]

Firefox. Started it several years ago, never had any problems with it...

[Jeff Vader]

Adblock Plus (block ads, images and more)... and of course NoScript (to allow flash,javascript etc only on pages that you need)

Call me a weirdo, but I use Adblock Plus for both. Scripts die with a *.js* filter rule and can be revived by creating exceptions when needed.

[Mongoose]

I've been using Adblock Plus, but I'm thinking of switching back to the original Adblock, despite its age.  I can't seem to get the hang of how to disable specific Flash elements with the former without going through a massive on-page list and experimenting.  Regular Adblock allowed you to overlay all Flash elements with a block dialog by hitting Ctrl+Shift+F, so you could take out just the ones that you wanted.

[Kie99]

IE loads faster because Windows Pre-Loads it to memory on start-up.

[Jeff Vader]

I can't seem to get the hang of how to disable specific Flash elements with the former without going through a massive on-page list and experimenting.  Regular Adblock allowed you to overlay all Flash elements with a block dialog by hitting Ctrl+Shift+F, so you could take out just the ones that you wanted.

If you open the Adblock Plus interface, there should be a choice that says something like "Show a button with Flash and Java elements" which, when ticked on, shows a "Block" button on Java and Flash objects.

[Mobius]

I don't see the Snuffleupagus option

[fener]

Adblock Plus (block ads, images and more)... and of course NoScript (to allow flash,javascript etc only on pages that you need)

Call me a weirdo, but I use Adblock Plus for both. Scripts die with a *.js* filter rule and can be revived by creating exceptions when needed.

Yes but how would you know which .js script to block without going to the site atleast once?

Quote: "When you install NoScript, JavaScript, Java, Flash Silverlight and possibly other executable contents are blocked by default. You will be able to allow JavaScript/Java/... execution (scripts from now on) selectively, on the sites you trust. " - http://noscript.net/features

Though whitelisting the sites you trust might be hassle for some, I being somewhat security paranoid don't mind it that much.

Also for Adblock Plus users something to checkout:

http://easylist.adblockplus.org/ - A good collection of filter subscriptions
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper - A tool which makes it very easy to hide parts of a web site using Adbock Plus' element hiding rules.

[Flipside]

I would swap to FF3, but I use FireFTP, which isn't compatible

I sometimes still have to swap to IE to convince some places to send me a registration Email or to log into some places.

[fener]

I would swap to FF3, but I use FireFTP, which isn't compatible

I sometimes still have to swap to IE to convince some places to send me a registration Email or to log into some places.

FireFTP - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684 - Says it works with Firefox 3 ?
IE Tab - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 - Haven't used it, but seems to be pretty popular.

[Flipside]

Hmmm, they may have upgraded it finally, when I first went to upgrade it told me that FireFTP wouldn't work with it, hadn't checked in a few weeks though, admittedly.

[Snail]

I don't see the Snuffleupagus option

Snuffleupagus would make a great web browser.