This was true a while ago. More recently it crashes only every few days or so.. (I'm currently using version 4.0.224.2_p29794 on gentoo)

Chromium...

So what will be the default search engine then. None? Bing? No thanks, Microsoft has been more evil than Google.

I don't know, been using Chrome 4.0 for months (I get the dev releases).
I like the url bar being a google search bar, the incognito mode, the bare-minimum apposed to 'very bloated'.

Is Chrome faster than Firefox? Yes.

Oh I totally agree - to each his own. I'm a simple man, I use what works best for me without too much worries what particular corporation is behind them (ok, well I guess I do try to stay away from anything Apple so I may be just as 'bad' as you ).

Then again there are much bigger things that I worry about than who built my browser. Mortgage, college funds, health care, etc. God, now I'm all depressed.

I use several browsers because they have different strengths, and because how "good" they are change for the better or worse and back again over the years.

I use Firefox with web pages that more or less demand that I do. But Firefox has this super-annoying habit of insisting to use an already running Firefox if you enter 'firefox http://something' at the command line. I want it to leave the existing windows alone, but it won't, and as I'm running with more than a dozen virtual desktops this behaviour is even worse. In order to have multiple, real different Firefox instances up and running I've had to resort to having multiple accounts (easy to handle in the same desktop on Linux). Oh, and before I finally got a ton of RAM on my box I had to keep stopping Firefox a couple of times a week to recover memory.

So, for all the random URLs that I want to open in a particular desktop window I use Konqueror. At times when Konqueror isn't too good (I'm running a distro which gives me continuous upgrades) I use Galeon, or, lately, even Midori. At times Galeon is bad and Konqueror is good, so I change back. Modori seems very fast, which was important when my box was slower. It used to crash a lot, which isn't good, but later releases appear to be stable.

There are a couple of other browsers I use too, as needed.

Doh. See e.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

That is with every browser a matter of how much you have open, and how much crap you use (like Flash).

I think the fastest browser with UI on X was Dillo, but that anecdote is from 5-6 years ago, running on top of TWM on Linux/alpha on an undocumented PATA interface yielding 1 mbit/sec I/O.

On my fast computers, I don't see what the big deal is about speed, really. I find Firefox fast enough, and Chrome fast enough, and Opera fast enough, and I don't run Internet Explorer.

So speed isn't the issue for me, it's features. I like Firefox add-ons.

I shall not have to fiddle with additional command line arguments just to open a URL (I always knew that was possible, but it's not good enough). I also don't want to hack the firefox startup script, as that would mess with apt-get upgrade.

[about memory footprint]
Firefox has always been worse than the other browsers I use, for the same sites and the same stuff (Flash). It used to leak a lot of memory too, just sitting there it could grow another 200-300MB in a week, or worse. This has improved quite a bit with the 3.x versions though.

In any case, I find that choice is good, also for browsers.
(and that's why I've not ticked any of the options in the poll )

MicroB FTW!

Regards,
Roger

Perferred browsers:
Firefox on Windows
Epiphany on Linux

Secondary browsers:
Opera and sometimes Chrome on Windows
Firefox and Opera on Linux