Which is the best web-browser?

I currently use Firefox, but recently I've found it's been running so damn slow and leeching memory like crazy- I don't have many extensions, and none outside of the norm (AdBlock Plus, DOM inspector, LongTitles and WOT) so I was wondering if a different browser would solve the problem?

I tried Safari/Opera a while ago, but I found them kinda clunky, whereas I found firefox easy and smooth to use straight away- do they get better when you're used to them? Is it even worth getting used to them? I begin to wonder if I ought to just wipe firefox off and do a clean install?

To be honest, I've found that often IE will load a page in half the time it takes firefox just to open a window, so I wonder if windows is kind of biased against other browsers to begin with- If I didn't hate IE so much I'd consider going back to it.

In short, other than IE, what other browsers are there, and are any of them going to be any better than Firefox?

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Seriously, Firefox is the best. Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-%26gt; Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

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i use firefox and I.E.

both have there good points and bad points
I like Safari the best, but Internet Explorer is great too
camino
I like IE7 only because being the majority, it has the best compatability.

Check out Avant. It uses the IE core and has a LOT of kickass features.
Firefox ultimately is the best browser out there. IE will load some pages faster than Firefox and in my experience hotmail only really works in IE. Firefox has the most amount of add-ons. If you want to get a good addon for IE try IE pro. It offers a lot of the some add-ons as Firefox.
fire fox is most security browser but some web site not support fire fox but MS IE support most web site my opinion you install both
Firefox is

and don't trust anyone who says safari
A browsers performance is ultimately going to come down to how good your computer is and your internet connection. I have a MacBook Pro and a 7-year-old Sony Vaio running off a cable line.

On my MacBook Pro I use Flock, a great browser based off of Firefox that has all kinds of handy features for social-networking gurus (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.).

On the Vaio I use the latest version of Firefox. Even on a seven-year-old machine, the pages load quickly (not quite "Safari on a Mac" quick) and memory issues rarely arise.

In the end, it comes down to what you like. No one can tell you, you'll learn on your own.
there is a long list, including sites where you can evaluate the different packages:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=interne...
The main problem with Firefox 2.x is that the "memory leeching" issue is a known problem that is not going to be addressed by any updates to 2.x - the Firefox team is too busy developing 3.0 to fix 2.x
Firefox is without a doubt the best, security, and what Samuel Adams said, it can be sped up with a quick moderation of the config. Since Firefox was meant for Dial-up users.
First of all, the more you use a program, the more likely your OS will load the libraries into cache. So if you're trying out a new browser, you have to use it as your primary browser for a week or two (sometimes up to a month) before you get optimal speeds for loading up the browser. The browsing speed itself should be the same though.

Don't listen to those Firefox people.

Opera is the best internet browser around. It used to have a larger footprint than Firefox, back before Firefox 2 came out.

http://www.opera.com/download/

Opera has a built in torrent client, a built in IRC, and the SpeedDial feature is to die for. Plus, it re-opens your tabs when you close the browser right to where you were when you closed it! That's gotta be the coolest!

Opera is the only web browser that can pass the web standards test ACID2

http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2...

Firefox and IE *do not* comply with web standards.

Reasons why Opera is better than Firefox:

* Firefox got rid of the option to block 3rd party cookies. Supposedly because it doesn't work (it does almost all the time). You can still block 3rd party cookies in FF, but you have to go to the messy about:config page - YUCK

* Opera takes up less memory space than Firefox. The plugin community is full of bad programmers (they make something that works rather than something that works efficiently).

* More and more people are switching to Firefox, so hackers have noticed this and are starting to make exploits for IE and Firefox - which makes Firefox NO MORE secure than IE. Yeah, people are going to flame me for this one, but it's true. Actually, I'd venture to say that Firefox is even more open to attack because of its open source nature. It's easier to find exploits for Firefox.

So you want to do some "hacks" in that sloppy about:config to speed up Firefox? Opera has built in support for that.

Opera

Tools %26gt; Preferences %26gt; Advanced (tab) %26gt; Network

Change Max Connections to server from 8 to 16, and the max total connections to 32. You can change them to a bunch of different things.
firefox is safer coz adware infects IE , also IE has a lot of exploits

like remote execution that doesnt happen in firefox

but I am familiar with IE

I use both
If it's running slow, download Netscape Navigator.

http://browser.netscape.com/