I've tried all the big browsers, and they all had issues that were irritating to me
Safari 4 - lagged a lot when switching between tabs, or in general; loaded pages quickly when it worked
Chrome - met a lot of "this webpage could not be displayed" errors and such; continuous loading on meebo.com; also loaded pages pretty quickly when it worked
Opera 10 - is a beta, but so far the only real thing that annoyed me was that it didn't work in facebook
Opera 9.64 - works about the same as FF for me, without the extensions
Firefox - runs fine, with occasional lag; disabled a lot of add-ons that were unused/unecessary and it ran much better.
IE 8 - it's IE, what can I say. like people have said, it runs fine. probably the only real alternative to FF for now if FF is crapping out on you for whatever reason.
Before running the individual browsers, I ran ccleaner.
My computer is running on:
AMD Turion 64 1.6GHz processor
446MB of usable RAM
I am running it at "best performance"
I ran TuneUp Utilities beforehand
My laptop is slow, relatively speaking, but then it's about 2 years old. I'm buying some memory to increase performance, eventually.
I figure that I would have no issues with Safari 4 if I had more memory, but then the same thing is probably true for
I actually like Google Chrome simply because of the the UI.
Opera 10 would be amazing if it worked for facebook, lol, since it's one of my more traveled to sites.
I still don't like IE.