Opera is the best I have ever used. Starts up faster and loads pages faster than Firefox or IE, and looks much better too. It has a cleaner interface IMO and the widgets and other features like Mouse Gestures make for icing on the cake.

Of the three, I'd prefer Opera. However, because of browser driven development, I use IE7 alot. The current Hierarchy of browser usage for me is IE7, then Opera, then Browzar (standalone IE alternative that automatically clears its own caches when closed), and then Firefox.

to make IE7 more like Opera, I also have a FREE add on for IE7 called IE7Pro. Among other things such as forcing single instances, extra ad blocking, flash blocking (really really nifty) dictionary and spell checker, address bar macroing (like putting in "ts" for www.techspot.com/vb/ ), and custom user scripts, it also includes customizable mouse gesturing (what a fun feature in Opera. =), now it can be used in IE! ). Best of all, it makes IE just as feature rich as Opera, but its still more bloated and slower though. =p

FF works for what its worth, and is really nice in regards to its impressive library of extensions.

Relying on a program to be secure and to protect you is foolish, as I believe it is more up to the user to be wary of his or her surfing habits, and to practice safe browsing of the Internet and not open emails that you do not know who they are from (or blatantly spam).

As we say in the office, the weakest point in a security system is not necessarily the programs used within it, but the people who use the programs.

~madboyv1

Oh FireFox also has those mouse gestures too, I use them when im looking on alot of pages so I can switch tabs faster

Firefox is my first choice, but I leave my "Verizon Yahoo" browser as my default. It's a heavily modded version of IE6, but with slightly better security and TABBED browsing.
Firefox has a few quirks (in my experience). Certain websites can't be visited by direct window, but must be opened in tabs or else they open in the sidebar which is really annoying. "Webshots" won't display thumbnails in Firefox but they are displayed correctly in Opera. (Again referencing my installations).
At the end of the day I guess I'm easily moved by a pretty face (GUI), and I enjoy the many faces of Firefox.
I run the browser with "No-script" and "Flashblock".

yeah i hate that. thats why you dont use an inferior browser , about the wrist flicking gestures, thats a default one, i just prefer the clicking one.

whenever i used firefox i can never do a mouse gesture? you can do a tab one with opera, hold right click and scroll away

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39

In regards to this subject, it is still does not get better than the native gesture support in Opera. Though... can you put in custom gestures in Opera? I've never tried. I know in IE7+IE7Pro you can custom set what a decent sized list of gestures will do.

I used to use Firefox as my default browser. Now I use IE7 because it just looks so good!

I also like IE over Firefox because some pages aren't displayed correctly in Firefox, like Microsoft Outlook Web Access, which I use frequently.

I've been with firefox since alpha days, I can get it do what I want with extensions, IE tab is a handy one, also adblock plus with easy element and easylist, bugmenot, and tab mix plus. There are many more good extensions.

Opera does what i want and more, without extensions.

today my mom was messing with my computer and said "I CANT FIND THE DAMN AOL!!!" ( I deleted it the day I got this computer from my grandma ) and she spent like 30 minutes complaining about how AOL is WAAYYY better then FireFox until she opened it up and saw how über fast I made it with about:config ( lets you config firefox's settings )

ive used firefox for the last few years so its hard not to be biased

Yeah i used to use it a while back, then one day one of my dads friends was like ah you should use opera, its great (this was just after it became free pretty much) and i just thought pfft, FF is the best. untill one day i used opera and i've never gone back

Yeah, I prefer firefox. I don't like IE much, but have never tried opera.

i highly recommend it, it's got tonnes of great features built right into it, such as the mouse gestures and speed dial

FFF! firefox forever i mean i used IE for a long time (7 years) and then my geek friends started to push me like 'comon why don't you use firefox' and i've totally fell for tabs and addons, though it took me some time to get used to ff. i hate opera (please don't shoot me)... i hadn't had my pc for 1 year some time ago and i used my roommates computer and she was opera fan. that browser scares me till these days, i can't understand how some people find it user-friendly. maybe i'm too stubborn

Its more user friendly than IE or FF. It has tabs, its had tabs before anything else had tabs. FF is great if all you want to do is view a webpage completely like you would have in 1996, it takes several extensions to make it user friendly at all.
The only legitimate complaint I've heard about Opera from a FF user that held any water was that Opera doesn't use extensions, so that may be a legitimate fault. But when a browser requires extensions to be more usable than Netscape Navagator 3.0 that is also a fault.

Personally, I like the way that you can bolt as little or as much onto FF as you want, e.g. eBay Companion, Forcastfox (tells you the weather in the status bar ), Track Me Not and IE Tab (allows you to integrate IE into a FF tab - very handy)

Obviously IE7, FF and Opera all use tabs now but I find FF loads a lot faster than IE and i prefer the interface a lot more - that you can also customize easily with skins

I haven't used Opera for a few years but I didn't particularly like it when I did use it and i've grown very used to FF now to change Plus I just like it too much

hahahahahahaha, yes!

Opera has it's own sort of extensions, the Widgets. I know they're not as extensive as FF's extensions, but there is still the basic stuff in there like weather and currency converters and stuff like that. The Block Content feature built right into Opera is far better than AdBlock (so i've read anyway) which you have to seperatly download for FF

i loveeee Opera....its nice, cool feature, convenient, good speed..less problem compare to de other two browser

I voted other-meaning I use Maxthon (formerly IE2)-and it has become my browser of preference, but I do use FF and Opera and IE on occasion as well...