I tried Chrome, and the computer started doing strange things,and trying to connect to strange sites that I hadn't asked for. ZoneAlarm blocked it. I removed Chrome.
Firefox doesn't do that.
I bought Opera for the XDA (there's no free version of that edition), and it was such a load of rubbish that I've not tried it on the desktop. It would freeze for 20 seconds or so, locking the device up, then resume as if nothing had happened. It did that far too often to be useable. Others had the same problem.