It may just be the way I use the net but after 15 years of internet use, I really see no difference between them.

Yea, it really is full featured... They introduced an innovative, amazing new feature called Print Preview few weeks ago.

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What exactly is noscript?

Don't forget the integrated omni-tracking feature: Google owns you and your life anally, and you are more than happy to give your ass to the company. For a greater good!

Firefox with occasional use of Chromium (chromium is the open source version of chrome, I use it mainly because it's in the ubuntu repos).

I prefer firefox for a few reasons though:

1. Chrome's extensions aren't as good as firefox's. You can duplicate most of the important ones, but the still don't work as well (NotScript, Adblock, etc.)

2. It really irks me that Google seems to have some of their pages hard coded into the browser with special treatment. Go to the Chrome Web App Store, and you'll notice that none of your extensions are working. AFAIK, Google has that page hard baked into the browser to disable extensions for 'security'. I could understand this, but there is no switch to disable it.

3. The EULA you sign with chrome is annoying, although not the end of the world I guess. Still, you can install Chromium without signing a EULA, but you don't get nifty features that are closed source (pdf reader for example).

http://noscript.net/

Very useful though it pretty much blocks everything(java,externally linked sites etc) probably the most secure way to surf the net, takes a little getting used to as you have to enable features for each site, but will greatly reduce any chance of you getting a virus,spyware as only you can choose what you allow through.

Safari for me :)

(continues) ... of the companies that would pay Google to find out more about you before hiring you.

(stands true for most social networks too)

Preferred? Not sure, it's mostly a question abou which icon I'm used to clicking on. That means I use Safari about 40% of the time on Windows (with the rest of the time being split between Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and Explorer - not in any particular order), almost exclusively Safari on Mac OS and similarly for Firefox on Linux.

Google Chrome.Simple and fast. And the only extension I really need is Adblock.

Well a browser is just a tool for me, I certainly don't have any favourites. I do most of my general browsing using Srware Iron (chrome variant focussed on privacy) because it is light and minimalist. I quite like IE9 for when a website won't work with Iron, but to be honest that hasn't happened for a very long time now.

Opera used to be my preferred browser for years, but the recent changes in version 11 seem like unnecessary bloat to my eyes and I use it less and less. As for Firefox, I just don't use enough extensions to warrant using it.

As I said, though, I've never been one for the browser wars simply because I can have them all installed and use them as necessary.

Seamonkey, mainly because I want an integrated email client. And they're not pulling all the same crap as Firefox, though their development cycle is also becoming worryingly quick.

Opera.

Firefox 99% because of TabMixPlus and Firebug.