What browser do you use and why?

[#1]

As I'm about as enthusiastic a Mac user as you're likely to get, my main browser is Safari - it's simple, it's reliable, it has nice touches - it does the job for me. Having said that, when the beta of Safari 3 came out I upgraded to that, and I have found it a bit unstable, but I like its added features so I'm sticking with it - the new search facility's great, for example. (I can excuse beta software for not working perfectly.) I do however keep copies of FireFox, Opera and IE (yes, for Mac) on hand; I've set FireFox to open under Rosetta so I can use it with old non-universal-binary browser content plugins.

[#2]

Firefox all the way

[#3]

Ok...
I use Firefox for work....
Opera most of the time though getting more and more into IE7 but i am still a Opera man.

[#4]

Opera for choice! - and I switch to Firefox if there is a pdf download needed as Opera seems to freeze on that.  Firefox is ok.........but Opera is elegant

[#5]

Opera's fine for me with PDF's, check opera:plugins to see if there's multiple plugins listed. If not go to the Preferences and Downloads and you can set PDF's to open with Adobe Acrobat rather than the plugin.

[#6]

Well I'm a  stick in the mud I suppose    I still use Internet Explorer.
It does what I need and seems to do it well.
Must admit that I've not tried the other alternatives but there's time yet 

[#7]

@dave
Thanks for that dave - however I don't use any Opera Plugins or Widgets.  My system is set to use Adobe Acrobat with PDFs but doesn't seem to be able to - it just freezes and so I switch to Firefox to deal with the PDF element.  In spite of that I still prefer to use Opera as much as poss!!

[#8]

Quote from: dave

What I always find funny is that Firefox users say it's a good day when Firefox only crashes once or twice. If you crash your car once or twice a day would you be on the road?

What are you talking about? As far as I am concerned it's a bad month when Firefox crashes once. I can't remember when it last happened!

[#9]

It's happened to me 3 times today!
Probably 'cos I use a few add-ons, but without the add-ons I wouldn't be using FF at all, bit of a catch-22 me thinks.

[#10]

I'd suggest you try disabling the add-ons one at a time to see if the culprit is one you can live without.
My list:

[#11]

That is a lot of add-ons!!

[#12]

Quote from: Brad

That is a lot of add-ons!!

Yep, and in spite of that it is still absolutely stable!

[#13]

There is a FireFox extension to list your Firefox extensions available at http://mozilla.doslash.org/infolister/ BTW 🙂
The extensions on this install of Firefox are:
British English Dictionary 1.19
DOM Inspector 1.8.1.4
Firebug 1.05
Forecastfox 0.9.5.2
FxIF 0.2.2
Google Browser Sync 1.3.20070523.0
InfoLister 0.9f
Live HTTP Headers 0.13.1
PlusNet Service Status 0.1
SwitchProxy Tool 1.4.1
Talkback 2.0.0.4
Web Developer 1.1.4

[#14]

You didn't mention that it could produce the BBCode (complete with URLs) ready for posting!
Extensions (enabled: 17, disabled: 1; total: 18)

• British English Dictionary 1.19
  
• Copy Plain Text 0.3.3
  
• DOM Inspector 1.8.1.4
  
• Fasterfox 2.0.0
  
• Firebug 1.05
  
• FireFTP 0.97
  
• FlashGot 0.5.99
  
• InfoLister 0.9f
  
• Java Console 6.0.01 [disabled]
  
• JavaScript Debugger 0.9.87
  
• PageZoom 0.3.3
  
• PDF Download 0.8.1
  
• Print/Print Preview 0.4
  
• Style Sheet Chooser II 1.5.0.5
  
• Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.1.1
  
• Talkback 2.0.0.4
  
• Titlebar Tweaks 1.8.0
  
• URL Link 2.01.0
  

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Thanks Colin

[#15]

You can customise the template to include the description - nice!
Extensions (enabled: 17, disabled: 1; total: 18)

• British English Dictionary 1.19 [br]
  
• Copy Plain Text 0.3.3 [br]Copies text without formatting
  
• DOM Inspector 1.8.1.4 [br]Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.
  
• Fasterfox 2.0.0 [br]Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
  
• Firebug 1.05 [br]Web Development Evolved
  
• FireFTP 0.97 [br]FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox.
  
• FlashGot 0.5.99 [br]Enables single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".
  
• InfoLister 0.9f [br]Lists installed extensions and themes
  
• Java Console 6.0.01 [disabled][br]
  
• JavaScript Debugger 0.9.87 [br]
  
• PageZoom 0.3.3 [br]Adds page zoom functionality.
  
• PDF Download 0.8.1 [br]Allows to choose what you want to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML!
  
• Print/Print Preview 0.4 [br]Replace the default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview" toolbar button/menu. Adds new options to context menu as well.
  
• Style Sheet Chooser II 1.5.0.5 [br]Choose author-provided alternate style sheets.
  
• Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.1.1 [br]Enhances control over some aspects of tabbed browsing.
  
• Talkback 2.0.0.4 [br]Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla.
  
• Titlebar Tweaks 1.8.0 [br]Tweak your browser's titlebar text.
  
• URL Link 2.01.0 [br]Allow navigation to broken/unlinked URLs