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I waffle on this a bit, but I usually end up going back to Chrome. IE9 is faster in many respects (the hardware acceleration helps with jQuery and AJAX heavy sites), but Chrome just looks a bit nicer and still has the edge on standards-compliant rendering of websites.

I know that people love to hate on IE, but MS has been doing a great job with IE9 in terms of speed and compliance, so more people should at least give it a shot instead of dismissing it completely. IE's bad rep comes mostly from IE6 (IE7 and 8 were slightly better), which most businesses still mandate despite its utter lack of security measures.

I usually switch between Firefox and Chrome. I like Chrome for the speed, and Firefox for the extensive plug-in ecosystem.

I prefer Chrome over all of them because I can get my webapps, extensions, history, bookmarks, and themes synced across multiple computers on Chrome just by signing on with my Google account.

I used to heavily use Firefox myself but stopped because it just seems to get slower and more bloated with each new release.

None of the above options. I prefer Opera. Opera is seriously powerful, and way more than just a browser. It has it's own email client built-in, IRC client,... heck, even a BitTorrent client. Whilst I never use any of these (they aren't exactly perfect), they do exist.
Unfortunately, Opera seems to be getting less and less compatible with the web, mainly because it is an unsung hero. Sadly (contrary to popular belief) they did NOT invent tabbed browsing, however, they were the best at it (back in the day).
One feature I find really handy is tab stacking, which (last time I checked) is currently a feature only available in Opera. I for one end up at the end of the day with lots (25+) different tabs open that I don't want to close (I dislike adding things to favorites as then they get lost and forgotten). So, I just stack a bunch of tabs together, and there, the tab area is instantly less cluttered.

Opera is undoubtedly the king when it comes to features (whether they're hand or not is a different matter :P), and is still fairly usable in today's web (version 12 is currently in a rather dodgy alpha and seems to work better with certain sites than version 11 and earlier do/did). If you want to use the web quickly and compatibly, use Chrome. If you want to use the web powerfully, use Opera. If you want to use the web 'classicly', use IE (as it's so popular by default, it tends to be compatible, though with Chrome's recent birth and huge popularity, less and less of the web is anymore). If you want to use the web fairly compatibly, but in a rather bulky and sometimes slow interface, use Firefox.

Personally, I use Opera throughout the day, and when I come across a site that doesn't work (Twitter tends to break), I quickly open up Chrome.

Along with Tim and Andrew I prefer Chrome. I use it simply because, for me, it loads web pages more quickly than any other browser. I also like Chrome Sync.

I was a heavy Firefox user up until last year but switched off of it because I felt like the browser was becoming to slow and bogged down, so I jumped to Chrome.

Chrome has been performing really well and I really enjoy the built in bookmark & extension syncing. However I'm beginning to notice more and more frequent crashes with day to day browsing. I've been using Firefox as a secondary browser to handle certain tasks but am thinking of getting back up to speed with where Chrome is and trying to use it full time for a week to see.

As for IE, I can't completely abandon it because certain in-house built sites work better with it.

Firefox is my primary browser. The addons are a major draw, though from a commercial user perspective the way they deal with updates isn't. Generally speaking I like how it works, and how it can be made to work, the best.

However I use them all, although I think Chrome is slowly losing one of its key advantages (stability) as of late. Speed has not really been a huge issue for me since I've been pretty much 100% SSD in terms of what I sit in front of since 2009, and been a partial SSD adopter since 2007 - so even Firefox, when it was absolutely the slowest in terms of initial startup time, always started up in a tolerable time.

I've been unable to bash IE in any meaningful, real-world way since certainly 8, although once again IE9 is not my primary browser. I do find myself turning more to it than Chrome recently though as an adjunct browser.

i love chrome...i use three computers on a regular basis and love that all of my bookmarks are synced between them all. i also use android and really like the chrome to phone app if i need to read something on my phone.

i find chrome much faster and cleaner looking as well.

I use IE9 and Chrome. Both are pretty great performance wise. Both have pros and cons. Chrome has more plug ins and extensions than IE9. IE9 has more functional features compared to any other browser. IE9 is deeply integrated into the Windows 7 experience. You can pin websites to the taskbar and get notifications and jumplists. The site feels like a native application. Tab snap is pretty cool too. Also, I think IE9 looks and feels better than Chrome. It's a bit cleaner. Though I don't dislike Chrome at all. I use both depending on my mood :)

I Prefer Chrome. it seems to load quick with alot of tabs already open, it saves my bookmarks across multiple computers using my gmail account without any extra add-on's or setup (every time i reload my machines, which is often) and it almost never crashes

Firefox 8.0

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Chrome. Though I tend to use Chrome and Safari equally. Why? Speed and habit.

I use Crome most of the time, now i'm testing Comodo and i'm impressed with it. Just as fast (as i see it), seems very safe, reackt fast if i'm trying to open a page that has possible bad links, pishing etc etc.

I'm currently a Chrome user primarily because of the ability to sync my browser settings across multiple devices. Otherwise, I really like IE9. It is more minimalist than you'd expect in a Microsoft developed app, but I use it a lot if I don't need to use something that would benefit from my access to sync'd material (bookmarks, passwords, etc.). It's a lot snappier in general use for the way I operate. If Microsoft can get it to sync bookmarks and passwords with a Windows Live ID and more useful add-ons were made for it, I'd use IE9 exclusively. I despise Firefox. It is slow to start up if you have add-ons. That's changed in recent nightly builds, but its hardly a fixed issue.

I used to use Firefox as my main browser until it became unstable.

So now I use Chrome because I use Google products a lot and it all ties in nicely. I love the Sync feature. Chrome has been more stable and faster than Firefox ever has been for me.

I use a lot of extensions and 99% of the time, I find a perfectly good Chrome extension for whatever I'm after. Chrome does have a lot of good quality extensions available.

For web design and development, Chrome has a great collection of extensions that matches anything Firefox had. Having said that, I don't use the Web Developer or Firebug extensions any more because Chrome's built-in developer tools are excellent and easy to use.

I also prefer Chrome's UI over Firefox's. It feels cleaner and less cluttered.

I've been using Chrome for a long time (apart from a brief break when I decided to try Firefox again a few months ago. That didn't last long!) and I've never had any need for NoScript. On the rare occasion I stumble across anything fishy, it immediately gets blocked anyway. I've never had a nasty trojan or whatever through a website viewed with Chrome. Guess why? I don't make a habit of visiting dodgy sites. /wink