I would use adblock if i actually cared, I think of ads as a way to support the webpages i frequent...
and if they happen to show something relevant to my interest.., that benefits everyone (though the ads themselves rarely have the lowest price, and thus don't receive my business.)

Just remembered IE on Xp. Version 7 was ok. Tried V 8, it really slowed down to a crawl,
saving everything in memory for the next crash recovery.
It didn't like saving a webpage to hardrive, would stall. It really needed a can of V8.
V 9 slightly better on win 7.
V 10 on Win 8 desktop very good.
The alternate full screen version sucks big time.
Refuses to open links on some pages, unless I make a new window.

Yeah, I used to use adblock for awhile, forgot it was even there.
Would still let in some popup ads. Guess didn't update list.
I hope the adds are harmless in themselves.
It's more of what we are clicking on and typing consistently,
that gets us profiled by anyone who wishes to use that information,
for their good and bad reasons.

Here is a good reason. e.g. I can find stuff fast if not faster, just by typing in
say "classicshell the Bingbots and Googlebots" I don't have to be on this site.

I will only use IE myself. I have hated every version of Firefox since it started. Chrome is okay but Comodo Dragon is better. IE10 is my default and I'll move to 11 when it's available.

actually I used to use IE exclusively, before chrome came along. I just liked it better than firefox at the time.

I suppose you can't impress everybody
But is there a problem with FF?

I had a few issues with trojans on IE, though i have a feeling most of them were user error.. movie.exe ect

Either way thats what a good Antivirus/Remover is for like Malwarebytes and Avast

Or a great malware blocker like Comodo. Nothing is better for the zero day stuff.

Doesn't Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials cover malware?

I am big fan of IE and refuse to use Chrome, Firefox or Opera as my main browser I love IE's excellent RSS integration and many other configurable behaviors.

The main reason I love IE is because it includes most functionality out of the box so you don't really need many addons (except Classic IE of course ).

Of course, for certain specific tasks, nothing beats Firefox's addon ecosystem. But Firefox's UI also keeps changing constantly, lately Mozilla have been making Firefox dumbed down, making annoying changes and keeping options only in about:config or entirely removing from there as well.

Chrome is just too minimalistic (no "Match whole word" or "Match case" in the Find dialog, seriously?). Opera was excellent till 12.xx but had many UI related bugs and then Opera pulled a Windows 8 with version 15 and turned into Chromium. I mean seriously? Giving up Presto, and everything they had developed so far?

I do keep all the major browsers installed because IE isn't perfect either. But being a usability obsessed person, I find IE > Opera 12.x > Chrome > Firefox.

So SeaMonkey is a great choice it uses the FF layout engine and all

@Dch48 - I heard that Comodo has a lot of false positives

Yeah I've been recommended SeaMonkey by another close friend too. So far it has survived the dumbing down and nonsensical changes that Firefox is going through each revision. I used to use it a long time ago. Must try it again.

That's absolutely wrong. It has almost none. What they are calling "false positives" are new and unknown things being restricted by the behavior blocker or auto sandboxing. A real false positive is something being detected by antivirus signatures as malware when it isn't. That very rarely happens.

Most of the testers are not familiar with the way Comodo works because it takes a different approach than other products. Therefore they say it produces "false positives" because they really don't know what is going on. Only new or unknown things will be restricted and most of them will quickly be white listed if they are found to be safe. That is not a false positive but rather a notice that the file is unknown to the system. All you need to do if you get a restriction alert for something you know is safe is tell the program not to restrict it again and restart the application. It will be in the trusted list from then on.

My personal favorite:
I also consider this page very interesting...
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php
...as it sets the guidelines for non-IE browsers.

All non-IE browsers?
because I doubt all of those thing are in Firefox or Konqueror.