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Originally Posted by beepbeep

Firefox uses lot's of resources,

Do you know what's funny about your statement? (I'm a FF user, and I'd have thought you were right, but) according to two of the links that were posted by Foxpaws, Firefox is almost universally the lowest memory user of the whole lot of them. Think about that for a minute!

but is IMHO most robust. Also, there is this little Ad-On called "Adblock Plus" which is best thing that happened in browser scene for a long time.

Basically, you subscribe to list of sites that are to be blocked and voilá, banners, adds and other bandwidth-heavy things are filtered out. Pages load much more quickly and you don't need as much bandwidth.

Yes, adblock plus is great. If you want to get even more secure and more anonymous (well, slightly less unique at least), then install "noscript". With noscript you will have more initial configuration to do than with adblock, but I think it's worth it.

No script will essentially turn off everything on web pages that you visit except html. Then, as you visit your normal pages, you can start turning stuff back on based on the source of the script. For instance, when you pull up a webpage, you may pull up 3 or 13 different scripts from pages like facebook, ad sites, and assorted tracking sites. But, there may be one script that is for the site that you actually went to. You can tell no script (very easily) allow the script for the site and keep blocking the scripts from every where else. It'll remember your choice next time. It seems to decrease memory usage and increase speed.