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I'm using Chrome right now, used firefox a lot before but felt it got bloated, Chrome is OK.

Why not use ff at first place?

Chrome/Opera/Maxthon

Firefox has been running like shit lately. The performance is horrible. Explorer9 runs so much better but I don't want to use Explorer9.

If you don't want to use IE9 then go with Chrome. It's reliable, clean and very fast.

Well it is memory hog, that's for sure. I have habit of using it, but you have the point it's getting ridiculously slow.

My laptop is decent and when I use Firefox, it is like I'm using a netbook...

Personally I think that Firefox is the best choice right now.

Chrome is also very popular, but many people are suspicious about Google's tendency to grab and evaluate every bit of data it can get. Supposedly the browser has been made less intrusive over time, but I don't really trust it.

Opera was a great browser for years - efficient, innovative, very customizable. Since version 11 however, its quality is declining steadily. From version 12 onwards I had so many problems with it (for some reason some of my games would stutter and become unplayable while Opera was running in the background, closing Opera solved the problem immediately) that I finally switched to Firefox.

Internet Explorer is always available, and has much improved security now, but it's still a Microsoft product. Many people use it as a second option if their main browser doesn't work on a given page.

Why are you looking for alternatives to Firefox in the first place? Do you have any plugins active?

Firefox by itself is pretty fast, or at least not considerably slower than any other browser. Plugins are often programmed very inefficiently though.

I have 8 plugins active and one extension(Flagfox).

It's slow as hell once you are running out of RAM. Also, it has tendency to lose all my tabs from time to time.

Seriously, check Mahtxon out. It was great last time I used it.

For a detailed comparison of browsers, check the Web Browser Grand Prix at tom's hardware. This site regularly checks the performance of browsers for a couple of years now, they have a pretty sophisticated testing parcours.

The detailed results show strengths and weknesses of the browsers in various scenarios (for OS X and WIndows 7).

The end results (next page) show Chrome leading slightly before Firefox, with IE and Opera trailing far behind.

you can try palemoon, which is a customized firefox buiklt to optimize performance in windows

Ok, thanks for the information.

I'll add my vote for Opera. I've loved it since I started using it a few years ago. Right now I've got Opera for the majority of my browser usage, and Firefox basically only for a handful of sites that don't like Opera.