I'm convinced all browsers suck
Yes. It is true. They all suck. What's worse is how many there are, all of which suck. I've had Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, and the ubiquitous IE7 on most of my network for, well, forever. What kills me about each one is this...
Firefox - 2.0 is too bloated and buggy. Memory leaks and poor handling of Flash/Shockwave objects with respect to CPU and memory. Too many sites I *HAVE* to use won't work at all with it. They *REQUIRE* IE, period. Two of the sites I use to pay bills, my company's time-keeping system, one of my vendor web sites - all work with IE and not at all with anything else. While I really, really like 3.0 so far, it doesn't look like it can do much to remedy those sites crappy limitations.
Opera - They waited too God-damned f-ing long to go "free". While Netscape was free and clone add-ons for IE like MyIE2 and Maxthon were busy cloning Opera's feature set, they still insisted on charging for it. Then when it went free, it was too late to gain any marketshare. That's not what bothers me though. I tried using it with those crappy sites I mention above, using the IE emulation mode, and they still don't work. They sometimes will at least render, but none of the DHTML and JS effects work so the pages are unusable. Nice try.
Maxthon - Bloated. It has the best ad-blocking system of any browser or browser plug-in I've ever seen in my life. Period. Bar none. Actually too good. I spend more time allowing things than tightening down things. That's not really a bad thing. But the cost of that is a huge hit on CPU and RAM. Pages render slower than molasses while it's busy recursively scrubbing the source stream. Too bad. It actually makes IE useable, but the performance is just too poor for me. I'm not that patient.
Safari - The only question I have is "Why?" Holy crap. Same question I have for Konqueror also. Why? Do we REALLY need another f-ing browser? It's like another infomercial or late night talk show. Another cereal. Another cigarette brand. Geez. I can't see any revolutionary or unique with Safari that makes any sense other than Apple wanted it to glue features together between Leopard and the iPhone. Maybe. It doesn't work with any of the sites I've mentioned that only work with IE, so it's useless and doesn't do as much as FF or Opera do already.
This brings me to IE...
IE7 - I can't compare IE6 to others because that wouldn't be "fair", and because I don't use IE6 anymore, not even on my XP boxes. I use Vista mostly and that means IE7. IE7 on XP is not that bad actually, but the UI is just lame. Firefox and Opera have much better UI features. Maxthon has superior features as well, but alas, the slowness. No. What bothers me the most with IE7 is on Vista. The secure process handler that forces a new window when you're in a trusted zone and the link you're opening is not. That sucks! The worst situation is logging into Passport enabled sites (oops, I have to say "Live ID" now, don't I?) like TechNet and MSFN and MSDN, etc. If even one of the bazillion interim links fired off during the authentication hand-offs is not in your trusted list, and some are (like technet.microsoft.com for example), the results are painfully ugly. I call it "window thrashing". It gets stuck in a lurch opening windows both in and out of the trusted zone process boundary. Half of them spit out an error that they can't display. The end result being the session info isn't passed back to the final window and the login fails. It SUCKS!!!! I have to stop and figure out all of the in-between URLs like live.com, passport.com, msn.com and so on, and don't forget: You have to enter both HTTP and HTTPS for each f-ing one! Ahhhh!!!!
It's 2008 - can't we get a browser to work properly?!?! This is stupid.