I use Safari usually, because I find FireFox to have too much clutter at the top of the window, limiting the screen size. I might install Google Chrome sometime soon, but I'm just too lazy, and Safari has been great.
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Firefox. Forever and always.
I'll leave this open for more discussion. I used IE 9 for a couple days, but found out a lot of the websites I visit are not IE 9 friendly so I went back to IE 8.
I guess I wouldn't call myself die-hard, but I'm an established Chrome user. Speed helps, but it wasn't the main factor for my preference.
Having access to new standards like WebGL is very nice (I don't care if FF and Safari have it as well; it's an example for anything in the future). And they get me with simplicity, as others have said. Speed, Security, Simplicity, Stability. The entire attitude of it all really gives off a good vibe.
All the cool little additions help. Desktop notifications, location tracking, speech recognition. Sync, oh gosh, sync. That was a big factor, indeed it was. I guess I could use FF for this purpose, but alas, you can't run FF in Chrome OS, now can you (not that I would want it any other way [and no, I don't want to install Ubuntu on my Cr-48 just for that purpose])?
Omnibox, Chrome Instant, drag-and-drop, compact navigation (currently in the Canary build), access to experimental features (through about:flags). I could go on forever about the endless exclusives (IE9 has the Onebox, sure, but it's too small for my tastes. And granted, Firefox has about:config, but about:flags is easier to understand).
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Having access to new standards like WebGL is very nice (I don't care if FF and Safari have it as well; it's an example for anything in the future). And they get me with simplicity, as others have said. Speed, Security, Simplicity, Stability. The entire attitude of it all really gives off a good vibe.
All the cool little additions help. Desktop notifications, location tracking, speech recognition. Sync, oh gosh, sync. That was a big factor, indeed it was. I guess I could use FF for this purpose, but alas, you can't run FF in Chrome OS, now can you (not that I would want it any other way [and no, I don't want to install Ubuntu on my Cr-48 just for that purpose])?
Omnibox, Chrome Instant, drag-and-drop, compact navigation (currently in the Canary build), access to experimental features (through about:flags). I could go on forever about the endless exclusives (IE9 has the Onebox, sure, but it's too small for my tastes. And granted, Firefox has about:config, but about:flags is easier to understand).
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Internet Explorer. I tried Firefox once, but it seemed to have all kinds of little add-ons and stuff that I never used much, so I stopped using it.
I use Google Chrome now. I used to use IE, but I got tired of it saying things like "Internet Explorer has stopped working" and the overall slowness compared to Google Chrome. I definitely still think IE is pretty good and I was even kind of sad to stop using it all of a sudden. But hey, as long as the internet browser is easy to use and pretty fast, it works for me. =)
IE9 is umpteenth times better than IE8. Almost all the add-ons and useless icons are gone, and it's sleeker and thinner, making your screen look HUGE. It's amazingly fast, too. I've never actually tried Google Chrome or Firefox. If I change to a different browser, but then decide I want to go back to IE9, will my computer let me?
…Just keep Explorer on your computer and open it whenever you want 
. It's not worth trashing or uninstalling browsers much anyway, they're not terribly big.
I just use Safari as a default, sometimes I'll use Firefox if images aren't copying right or if I have to do large file transfers (though usually I'll just do transfers over a closed network in Dropbox or using an iDisk). To that end I find Firefox slightly more powerful as a browser, but for general web surfing I think it's like killing a fly with a machine gun, the extravagant interface is great and all, but Safari is something you can just open and surf within literally a second-and-a-half with a bare window and a mouse/keyboard, and at the end of the day I'm not savvy enough to do much else with my browser, there's much more practical stuff you can do with open source software, and I'm too lazy to bother with Google. That being said, they're both great browsers.
And why isn't Netscape on the list?
. It's not worth trashing or uninstalling browsers much anyway, they're not terribly big.I just use Safari as a default, sometimes I'll use Firefox if images aren't copying right or if I have to do large file transfers (though usually I'll just do transfers over a closed network in Dropbox or using an iDisk). To that end I find Firefox slightly more powerful as a browser, but for general web surfing I think it's like killing a fly with a machine gun, the extravagant interface is great and all, but Safari is something you can just open and surf within literally a second-and-a-half with a bare window and a mouse/keyboard, and at the end of the day I'm not savvy enough to do much else with my browser, there's much more practical stuff you can do with open source software, and I'm too lazy to bother with Google. That being said, they're both great browsers.
Google Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Safari = MOST EPIC BATTLE EVER!!
No but in all seriousness I personally prefer IE over all the other browsers. I think it's pretty niffty how I can open a new tab from a link in another tab and the "related tabs" share the same color. This makes managing tabs alot easier unlike Firefox and Google Chrome where I usually get lost in a jungle of tabs, not knowing which tabs are related. The improved SmartScreen, which helps filter phishing websites, definitely earns IE points in my book. Although I really like IE I'm not very fond of the new IE 9. It's faster than IE 8 but it's just horrible. I did try it for a bit but I went back to IE 8 soon after.
When I first got my laptop, the browser I used was IE. It just seemed like the most reliable. Then a few people convinced me to switch to Firefox, so I did. And ever since, I haven't been able to use any other browser other than Firefox. While it isn't as fast as Chrome, it's fast enough for me, has a spell check, and the amount of add-ons, personas, and themes makes Firefox a more "user-friendly" browser.