browser wars.

pros and cons of each major browser-

internet explorer:
- pros: default browser on windows.
- cons: poor css support, security crap, almost 6 years old.

firefox:
- pros: extensions/themes, open source, decent rendering.
- cons: memory usage, umm.

safari:
- pros: amazingly fast, looks cool, passes acid2.
- cons: proprietary, not that customizable for the average user.

opera:
- pros: passes acid2 test.
- cons: slower than safari, bloated, has ads in the browser, costs money, proprietary, shoves a lot of useless features in your face [blog and my opera? no thanks], copied apple with the widgets.

IE has the advantage of being fast and low footprint (it's about the same if not better than Opera in this aspect.) Also moar compatibility with plugins and badly coded sites (which still outweigh the amount of Linux faggots who put up blocks for IE in their .htaccess files.) IE also has the disadvantage of nagging you to shit about safety every time you do anything ever.

Opera has the advantage of being fast (it's still generally faster than Safari though Safari edges ahead with javascript performance and some other things) with the best caching and partial-rendering capabiity so it generally should get the title for speed and responsiveness. Opera should also get praise for being vastly more customisable in terms of interface, not being run by a shitty egocentric dishonest user-hostile organisation like Mozilla, and a vast array of extra features built in. And a whole heap of things I totally forget because I just take for granted the idea I can customise every shortcut or use mouse gestures or do proper text zoom and all sorts of things Opera has done for like 5 years.

Konqueror guy forgot the con that it doesn't render anything right and they just steal from Apple's work nowadays. True story