"I've not tried Chrome - due to an inherent distrust of google's all pervading information gathering, rather than for technical reasons. "
+1. Their latest trick is to "bundle" Chrome with RealPlayer - Chrome installed defaulted itself during an upgrade to the latter without any input from moi. One uninstall later, a very pointed (and unanswered!) e-mail was dispatched to Google and Real.....
Interesting that people have had problems with FF - I run 3.6.13 on both a netbook and desktop, and fnd it faster and more stable than IE8 on both.
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