When I got fed up with the lack of responsiveness from IE, I tried Opera.

I really liked Opera, but found that far too many sites did not work well with Opera. Opera's stance on this was (and maybe still is) that their offering was highly compliant and that the problem lay with the websites rather than Opera. But that didn't really help me.

So I tried Chrome and have stuck with it ever since. It is extremely fast (as is Opera). The only real downside is that the Bookmarks (aka Favourites) handling isn't the best.

Opera has a vast multitude of user settings that you can set. Chrome has very very few.

On the odd occasion that Chrome has a compatibility issue with a site, I switch back to IE and oh what an absolute pain it is. Apart from being painfully slow, it constantly switches focus back to itself time and time again and so interferes with my flow. That was something that always really bugged me about IE and Chrome (and Opera) were a real breath of fresh air.

PS - I also have Incredimail and Skype running (but not in use at the moment) in Task Manager, each showing 0% CPU.

I am still having trouble with lost pictures on Firefox, they appear as an empty square, I thought I could overcome this by updating to FF 14 but it's still there, all is OK in IE9 so can't be intrinsic in my system. Last time this happened about a year ago I cured it by opening a new profile.

I prefer FF to IE because of all the add ons etc but I've now got used to running both, I have two windows of each open with about eight tabs in each one, never seem to have crash or speed problems.(W7)

My downloading is lightning fast since TalkTalk put fibre optic in last month.

rDave, I get these messages about having to close etc but I ignore them and instead of clicking OK, I click on red cross to delete message.

Flash and Adobe Air etc seem to have a lot of updates recently, be sure you are up to date with updates!!