I know enough about the internet to use any browser. If I have a problem, I open the page in another. Normally I have two browsers open at any given time.

But what’s the BEST browser?

I would love to say that Safari (Apple) and Internet Explorer 7 (Microsoft) should be avoided. That they both come undermined with corporate agenda.

Internet Explorer 7 does suck worst of all browsers, in my opinion. Happily they do not make a Mac version.

I try to avoid Safari too. Yet it’s quite good. I don’t understand why Apple has not integrated all their other proprietary software (more like Flock). If they did, I’d probably use it.

I should recommend those browsers built and improved by volunteers. Non-profit organizations including Firefox and Camino. Their only motivation is to build a better browser.

In fact, Camino has been my primary browser. Then Firefox. Next Safari and Opera.

I did some testing on a new MacBook Pro:

Safari vs Firefox 3 vs Opera vs Camino vs Flock

I simultaneously streamed high resolution video on each. One hogged CPU badly. Firefox 3.0b1 (beta). Firefox has been criticized for memory leak for a while.

Firefox is GONE. At least until they fix that problem.

Now … there is one feature critical to me that has not caught on with the general public. FULL PAGE ZOOM of text, images and video simultaneously. I’m ticked off at the number of websites that post tiny font and tiny thumbnail images.

Only 3 of these browsers ZOOM properly: IE7, Opera and Firefox 3.

Since IE7 and Firefox are disqualified, I will be switching to Opera as my primary browser.

That’s just me, on a new Mac. Your experience may be quite different.

I may try Flock as my second browser. Perhaps the one I use to blog. Or Camino, which has been best for me over the past year.

Safari vs Firefox 3 vs Opera vs Camino vs Flock

Comparison of web browsers – Wikipedia