Which Brower(s)?

[Harrison]

One big problem I had with 2000 was the boot time. It could take 5 minutes just to reach the desktop, then longer to finish loading. The XP SP3 system I still have boots completely in under 1 minute including loading everything on the desktop), and for Vista 64bit my system fully loads in under 30 seconds.

One thing I discovered recently is how much faster both XP and Vista load without a network connection. My internet went down, and my Vista machine booted in about 20 seconds!

As for overall stability. It depends on how the OS is setup. I never try to install anything I'm not going to actually use regularly, and I reconfigure the services and startup programs after every program install to make sure no additional rubbish is running that could cause instability or crashes. Also hardware is important. Some is more stable than others.

[woody.cool]

I reconfigure the services and startup programs after every program install to make sure no additional rubbish is running that could cause instability or crashes.

Just as a matter of interest (and an aid to improving my Windows installation), what services and startup programs do you 'reconfigure'?

I assume you disable a load of unnecessary services?

[Shoonay]

Firefox 3 of course, the latest 3.6a1pre (Build 20090615044733) version from yesterday
But I have all the other browsers installed just for the fun of testing something from time to time.

[xpect]

Only Firefox 3 for me on desktop. Using it since 0.7 version. Never looked back.

I use extensively my Windows Mobile browser which is IE only to login to WIFI hotspots proxy (i don't pay a dime) then Opera Mini.

[my_lo]

Same here: Firefox all the way! I tried Opera for a while but i just couldn't get used to it...

[demusse]

FF here and Opera for reading news.
Looked at Chrome for a while but can't get used to it...

[Sharingan]

Firefox at work, Internet Explorer 6 at home (because I can't be bothered to install/configure anything else), IE8 on the laptop and Opera on my mobile phone/PDA.

I like Firefox the best.