I like Opera because it feels overall lean and mean. I dislike bloat. And nowadays Opera feels fully compatible with all web pages too. For me the real test is whether it behaves nicely with my web banking site, because that seems to be VERY finicky due to java and shit. Opera seems to work fine nowadays with it. I can't even use that banking web site with e.g. an Android tablet, and Linuxes also have many times problems with it too, even when installing the official Oracle java in Linux.

I wish that stupid bank would just stop using java applets... They have a lightweight java-free mobile version of their web site, as well as separate Android/iOS apps for the same, but unfortunately those alternatives are quite restricted in what you can do with them. E.g. you cannot send money abroad with them, for that you have to use the java-shitty web site from a Windows PC. For me: for some reason Firefox seems to accumulate a lot of plugins/addons/whatever that I don't recognize, so I don't even know if I really need them. Hence, when FF sometimes updates itself, I get a report that many of those plugins are not compatible with the new version anymore. At that point I'm a bit at loss what I should do, let them stay disabled, try to remove them, or try to update them manually.

Oh, and for some reason on my work laptop using Firefox seems to make sure the laptop will crash in n minutes. I don't know why, on my other PCs it works fine, so I presume there is something else wrong on my work laptop, and FF just manages to trigger it, while Opera or IE8 don't seem to.

In Linux I use Firefox exclusively, though.

This one is more reliable :-)

I've had severe performance problems with Flash in FF (and Pale Moon). I now browse with it disabled, and only enable it if I need it (or open the page in IE).

Hey, I finally figured which browser is best through a lot of testing. Better than Firefox, better than Chrome, better than Opera.

http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/images/AOLexplorer/UI.gif :P

Did someone just stab me in the eyes? That's how it feels.

Oh, and this.

What the ...? I can't even ...

Nice link. Bookmarked. ;)

I'm with you with Comdo dragon. It's kinda good. Have been using it for a while, which means over a year.

What you just posted is an abomination. If web browsers made movies and watched movies, then what is in that pic, would be in their next horror movie as the monster.

This is what I see whenever I visit my parents. Spend half my time at home uninstalling all sorts of crap LOL.

It's a bit late, but one of the problems which Firefox has is bloat to the database. It has serious issues dealing with my large number of book marks.

Also, if you disable sync and restore tabs that usually helps as well. I've found that most of the problems with it are from scripts that stall out.

With 8GB of RAM, Chrome isn't bad, but for lesser amounts of RAM, it's hard to beat the RAM use of Firefox. Most of the competitors blow through RAM much more quickly.

Hmm, when I have 15 tabs open in Firefox it uses 485.000K

AFAIK it mostly depends on what's open

True. I'm on facebook, streaming online radio, browsing various news sites and posting on a few forums. I guess it's not too taxing.