There are various browsers available for browsing. Out of which few are quite popular. Often users ask which browser to use or which to not.
Accroding to a survey
1. Internet Explorer from Microsoft is used by 65% Net Users
2. Firefox from Mozilla by 25% Net Users
3. Opera, Safari & Google Chrome by 9% users
4. Rest 1% users uses other browsers
Features supported by popular browsers
1. Operating system support: Internet explorer run on windows only. Rest all browsres are supported by major Operating systems
2. Download managing: Supported by all except Internet Explorer
3. Spell Checking: Supported by all except Internet Explorer
4. Security Configuration: Mozilla and Opera implements good security comperable to IE, Safari and Chrome
5. Tabbed Browsing: Supported by all except IE. Recently IE7 onwards are supporting this feature.
6. Full Text History Search: Supported by all except firefox
Acid Score: Acid test are standard tests to rate the performance of browser.
This score is out of 100.
Google Chrome: 100.
Internet Explorer: 20
Mozilla: 93
Opera: 100
My opinion
-->Internet explorer is the worst browser both technically and feature wise. Avoid this browser if you can. The reason for popularity of this browser is that it is embedded with windows.
-->Mozilla firefox is the best browser for a layman. It provides good security.
-->Opera is another good browser. Use it if you want to explorer its technical features.
-->Chrome is good light weight browser. But as its new, it has to cover a long distance to become popular.
Personally i have used IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Out of which i rate them as
1. Opera
2. Firefox
3. Chrome
4. Internet Explorer