Posted 08/22/2009 at 01:08:04am

I used Netscape during the Windows 3.1 days and it was pretty good as there were not many options those days. Shifted to IE from Windows 98 and again it was equal to Netscape, but than Netscape was screwed big time or was it a well thought out stragtegy to push in IE. In between tried Opera & a few others but moved back to IE. Than came along Firefox and that changed everything. A highly lite and flexible browser and also free. With it was if you buy windows than only you get IE  (whether you want it or not. ). The add-ons  are also too good and so is the interface. Tabbed Browsing was introduced way before Microsoft introduced it. Than you had the new Opera and the Safari both are good & now comes Chrome which to is excellent, but still I believe nothing can beat a Firefox, Ok adding the Add ons is a bit troublesome after reinstallation but it is worth the trouble.

My ratings as of now would be as below

1. Mozilla Firefox

2. Google Chrome

3. Safari

4. Opera

5. Internet Explorer. ( use it only if you have to. )

I have installed all 5 on my pc but I use Firefox.