Browsing the Internet for your favourite music video requires something called a browser. With so-many browsers around the corner, the battle for dominance in the Web-access segment has become quite intense. Chrome 16, Firefox 9, IE9, Opera 11.6 and several others are knocking out new versions with appealing features to grab a bigger pie of the market.
If speed is what you are looking for then according to a Techradar report, Firefox 9 took an impressive 189.4 ms of response time in the Sunspider JavaScript benchmarks. On the other hand, Safari was next with 219.6ms, followed by IE9 (247.9ms), Opera (254.3ms) and Chrome (291.0ms). The tests were conducted on brand new installations without any plugins or extensions. 
Keeping aside speed, if add-ons is your top priority then again Firefox scores here above all. The browser from Mozilla has add-ons and Greasemonkey scripts in massive numbers that credits it to be the most expandable Web browser. Opera, on the other hand, has few unique features such as integrated e-mail, newsgroup, IRC Chat, Opera Turbo to improve performance on crappy mobile connections, and Sidebar-style widgets for games.
Going by operating systems, if you have Windows 7 installed on your PC then IE9 and Opera seem quite nice both in terms of functionality and appearance. They efficiently utilise the feature of taskbar pinning and jump lists in Windows 7. But, here too, Firefox leaps ahead in both speed and expandability. If you have not switched to Windows 7 yet then IE9 is a good bet for Windows Vista.
But if you use Windows XP then, you are left with options of Safari 5.1, Firefox 9, Chrome 16 and Opera 11.6 as IE9 lacks support for its ageing OS. Chrome takes the top spot for XP with its ability to consume least RAM and hard disk space. That implies that Chrome is best browser for netbooks too as its more modest on hardware requirements.
Moving towards the OS X, Firefox was surprisingly ahead of Safari in the Sunspider test. Firefox hammered through the test with a time of 153.8ms compared to Safari's 209.2ms, Opera's 214.7ms and Chrome's 225.3. However, Safari looks on Mac machine. But if speed is your top priority then go for Firefox.
Almost all the browsers offer excellent privacy features but if you are severely concerned about your passwords then IE9 has something unique to offer. The browser from Microsoft comprises a tracking protection feature that enables users to subscribe to lists that tell specific kinds of websites not to track you, which is potentially more useful than a global "do not track" option.
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