Best browser?

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I want the most secure and fastest. Thanks.

I'd say Firefox atm.

Firefox, IceWeasel, Chromium, Opera.

Really, anything that isn't IE.

Firefox with add-ons: Adblock Plus and NoScript. I've also unistalled flash and Adobe PDF as they are perennial risks with new exploits being found and used all the time - if it's made by Adobe it's a security vulnerability.

Most secure = firefox
Fastest = safari
most stable = chrome
most supported (still) = IE

Thank you all so much!

TallyMan: Is there a more secure way of opening a PDF file?

^^Precisely and exactly this. =)

I run BetterPrivacy addon as well, I've found it to be helpful in sneaky situations.

Firefox may not be fastest, and it's kind of a memory hog, but it can be made very secure and isn't any laggier with even 100+ tabs open.

I seem to recall a certain SumatraPDF reader being mentioned here before. That's what I use on Windows.

On Linux, evince is usually what comes with the distros that I use. They even appear to have a Windows build available. I'd give that a try, as it's very lightweight and no-frills.

^ That's the PDF reader I use.

Yes, I use that too, forgot to mention it. It just sits there and does its thing without ever needing any intervention or action from me. It deletes so called super cookies that some advertisers like to stick on your computer that aren't deleted as part of the normal cookie clean up by the browser. They lurk around elsewhere on the computer allowing various parties to track you even if you delete all normal cookies.

I would guess that the Lynx browser is fast and secure, but I would hardly count it as being the best browser.

Sumatra?

Have installed BetterPrivacy too.

Yes.

I use Firefox, I like the layout, always worked for me, other browsers always seem to be lacking in something, and didn't have the right "feel".

I think at this point it's not a matter of which is the best browser, but which one sucks the least.

Chrome is a memory and burns up a lot of CPU, and the UI is annoying.

Firefox generally doesn't take up as much memory, but burns more CPU.

Opera used to be a memory hog, but since it now uses webkit it has the same issues as Chrome.

IE? Well, I haven't tried recent versions, but previous versions always had security issues. Considering the fact that it's the browser supplied with most of the computers out there, I'm sure that there's a lot of people working on malware that targets IE.

Smaller players suck as Qupzilla (WebKit and QT) are promising, but the downside is that layout. rendering and content display can sometimes be dodgy.

Chrome for me all the way, it has adblock plus, and quite a few more privacy add ons. I have no issue with it using up either cpu or ram, but then I run linux which is generally far less demanding of these anyway.