too bad not much ppl know about OPERA... its so far ahead of ff3...
fact is ff is always lagging behind opera but i must admit that mozilla's marketing plan is awesome.

What are you talking about, OPERA is a piece of junk compared to firefox.

opera is such a piece of junk that firefox is just copying them.....

FF is taking the VERY few good things from Opera and doing a better job at it in the process

I've tried Opera many times, it's n o where close to FF3, it is tons better than IE but that's like comparing manure to perfume

FF is the best out there. Opera is alright, but FF still wtfpwns it. IE is slow and not as secure as FF or Opera, but it still gets the job done. Safari is probably the 'leech' of the bunch with Apple trying to leech every idea they discover.

I use both IE7 and FireFox3 (and previously Mozilla and then FireFox 2). They are all pretty much the exact same. The one thing that I have found, though, is that occasionally I do find sites which FF3 does not render properly, but they work fine with IE7.

The only thing about FF3 that keeps me using is the ease of porting my profile from computer to computer and OS to OS. I also like the fact that I can view my stored passwords w/ FF3. No other browser offers this, that I know of. It may be an 'insecure' feature, but it is a feature I enjoy having available.

I have to agree that Opera is not so great. I have used it on the desktop, Wii, and Windows Mobile. It does not provide a satisfying experience.

Finally, as for Apple, Safari is just a modified version of Conquerer (I believe). So, as usual just as with their OS, Apple has not innovated anything. Run FreeBSD w/ KDE and you have OSX.

FireFox FTW! W00t!!

Btw, under the shell OSX IS Linux/UNIX.

IE7 renders some pages faster than FF3 when those pages have large, fixed backgrounds. Hopefully Mozilla fix that up. I still much prefer FF though. Never really used Opera. Safari... well I've never really been able to keep it running stable.

FF kills IE in just about every way (@ the guy who said some pages display properly in IE and not FF, that would be because the pages have non-valid html made to work in IE... its a web dev's nightmare)

and Safari is not built on Conquerer, its build on WebKit (google it)

I use Safari, as I am on OS X, and Safari 3.1 is by far the fastest browser on here (FF3 made some pretty good performance jumps over FF2, but it still isn't in the range of Safari)

I'm not sure what version of Safari I used last, but it was higly unstable and much slower than FF2. This was on OSX 10.4 so probably an old version of Safari.

Opera 9.5 is the best browser I ever use
I was using Firefox for more then 3 years
but this browser is just great
ok u don't believe me
go and download opera
and try out some feature
1. Opera zooming feature
2. Opera Scroll Pages smother then any other browser huge difference
3. Hide all images form page in one click also
4. Boolean image of tabs (like vista tabs)
and more

That would be nice, but I wouldn't use any of those other features.

i am in love with firefox since 5 years
but i hate it when it cant render ASPx page like other

Well first, I don't use Google as either a search engine or a verb. I'd really like to know how FF3 'kills' IE7. As I pointed out previously, I use both and they both appear about the same and perform about the same. They have the same feature set as well. So far, the only comparisons I have seen throughout this thread are subjective comparisons. No one here can really quantify the differences between any of the browsers.

And let's face reality. People whose preference is to use something other than IE/IE7, they generally have a negative (unfounded/biased) attitude towards Microsoft, or use a non-Microsoft OS. The differences between all of these browsers is minimal at best.

Regarding pages using "non-valid HTML made to work in IE," that's for Mozilla to deal with. IE was (and is) the dominant browser with specific features which developers (like myself at times for our corporate intranet sites) target because it is the most widely used browser. In most corporate intranets, it is the only officially supported browser. I seem to recall that Netscape's custom features were targeted at one point in time which made the shift from Netscape to IE a bit of a headache.

Oh, I forget to mention ...

As I said before Safari >IS< based on Konqueror.

What is Safari?

First available in January 2003 as a public beta, and released as version 1.0 in June 2003, Safari is the web browser developed by Apple, Inc., for Mac OS X. At its core is the Konqueror KHTML rendering engine, which has been further developed by Apple into the WebCore rendering engine and released back to the open source community. Safari is fully standards-compliant, and even supports some non-standard abilities and quirks from Internet Explorer. Beginning October 24, 2003, with the release of OS X 10.3 (Panther), Safari became the default web browser for OS X.

I try firefox too, but opera is wonderful, tone of features and settings, performance is enough .The market share is not reflecting the reality, IE is poor but win because is preinstaled in windows, Firefox is very pretty, and the marketing strategy is good, Opera is wonderful but no marketing.

The market share does reflect reality and the pre-installation. And what is good about the Firefox (or Safari) marketing strategy? The only thing they can really say is "well, at least it's not IE."

smlong, I think many people just like the idea of choice, and since you are basically forced to run IE on Windows by default, people want to use something else because they can. The anti-M$ attitude plays a part also. My reason for liking FF over IE is the GUI layout and the fact that FF has so many more FREE addons compared to IE. I looked up an ad blocker addon for IE7 once and I was going to be charged nearly $80 for it. Checking now they do have a free ad blocker (Adblock Pro), but it blocks some non-advertisement images too, so I don't think it is as well matured as something like Adblock Plus.