Don't even mention IE. I didn't want to switch to Chrome unless I absolutely had to because it's easier to switch between browsers when you have multiple email accounts open than to log in and out again. My G+ account is on my webdesign email; I use Firefox for that, keeping my default browser open so I can read my personal emails. Chrome is for my work email account. I don't like using it because it's not compatible with all Google products. You'd have thought they'd have sorted that out by now but they haven't. So yeah, due to compartmentalisation I don't want to use either of those, so where do I go?
I've used Safari before but was put off by its layout. Webkit rendering engines back in the day were slow to support CSS and we had to find workarounds for them. Gecko always seems to have been on the bleeding edge, and to be perfectly honest a decent fork of Firefox would have done me. This is what I found.
Maxthon
"Trident and WebKit rendering engines supported," it promised. And Gecko, apparently. Does it 'eck. It's IE 11, okay? Features are minimal and there are no options to transfer your passwords, etc. I don't like the hard-edged look, the jagged feel, or the fact that it turns my right-click commands into Chinese. I don't like having to guess what those unfamiliar squiggles mean so I ditched it.
Avant

Seamonkey

Opera
You know I like something if I stick with it. I've been using Opera for the last few hours and it's working out well for me. Okay, so it uses Chromium/Blink as a rendering engine but it's much more compatible with Blogger than it used to be. The look and feel are comparable to Cometbird and while I STILL can't transfer my passwords, etc., it's pretty damn fast for typing emails, tweeting, and the other things I use browsers for. It's got some lovely add-ons (there's one for translation, a fair few for privacy, one that speeds up YouTube, and one for web development in case I want to play around) and it's not messing with anything I work with.
The market share winner
Well the overall winner of the latest round of the browser wars is unquestionably Chrome, which has over 59% of the market share as of June this year. Opera has barely 2%, probably because so few of us have heard of it. Mind you, it isn't widely advertised.
If I change my mind or Cometbird sorts itself out, I'll let you know but for the moment I use Opera for my personal online activity.
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