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Firefox 2 (Windows, Free)
Everyone's favourite web browser and why shouldn't it be? Easy to use, more secure that others being open source software. Has a large library of plug-ins, add-ons, themes etc. Easy customization, built-in pop-up blocker, password manager, rss feed reader etc make this <i>the</i> best. - CrabNebula

Safari 3 (Windows/Mac, Free)
From Apple's software house. They claim it is faster than Firefox and better.
Low on plug-ins and add-ons but that is because it just came out. Has a nice interface though, sweet and simple as Apple has always been. - CrabNebula

Gmail (Multiplatform, Free)
Its fast, its awesome, its...Gmail. Lots of storage space so you will never have to delete anything. You can also search through your mail, has chat feature through which you can chat with people on your contacts list. Has feature to retrieve your mail from other email accounts. It even checks your mail for viruses. No need to use anything else. - CrabNebula

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 (E-Mail: Multi platform, Free)

From the makers of Firefox, Thunderbird is an easy to use SMTP/POP3/IMAP client. It has all the basic features, but also has access to add-ons. The only one I can think of though to get is Minimize to Tray. It is very light on system resources. - Sonuis

Opera Browser (Internet Browser: Windows, Free)

Claims to be the fastest internet web browser. Has awards to back up its claim (though I don't know how old they are). It's not so heavy on system resources, which is a bonus. There are no add-ons like Firefox. It does however support many devices. This is the same browser used for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS Web Browser. Please note though that both of them were modified for each respective system. - Sonuis
 
7, not 2 lol

I... really wouldn't recommend people use IE7 over alternative browsers.
 
If it is okay to recommend Firefox extensions then here are the ones that I use:

AdBlock Plus (Free)
It blocks every banner ad that you can think of. Subscribe to the Easylist and EasyElement when you get the choice (it's the only English language version)

CustomiseGoogle (Free)
Rewrites the google code to remove "sponsored links", redirect image search results, provide quick links to other search sites and much much more.

Download Statusbar (Free)
This addon replaces the annoying popup download box with a toolbar at the bottom of the screen. The mini mode is better than the full mode as it takes up hardly any space.

Firebug (Free)
A complete web testing solution. Allows you to inspect CSS, Javascript and plain HTML and then dynamically alter it for previewing without affecting the original files.

HTML Validator (Free)
Validates the currently displaying website (local or remote) - easier to use than the official W3C version and has HTMLtidy integrated as well.

FireFTP (Free)
Proper FTP in a firefox tab. The keep folders in sync option is awesome!

Personal Menu (Free)
Adds an option to remove the menu bar (like IE7) useful with themes such as Vista-aero.
 
Mozilla Thunderbird (Windows, Free)
A free and trustworthy e-mail receiver platform and news client developed by Mozilla, same developer from Firefox.

Mozilla Browser (Windows, Linux, Mac, Free) An all-in-one internet browser and e-mail receiver that contains basic stuff like ad blockers, 'find as you type', the pretty much required tabbed browsing, and doesn't occupy too much space on your disk.

Also, pretty much all that's downloadable, and developed by Mozilla can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
 
[Opera] runs on a variety of operating systems including many versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
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It's not just Windows. I'm surprised at how many it supports, actually.




Shiira (Mac OS X, [Panther, Tiger], Free)
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Cocoa-based browser that makes use of Tiger features such as Core Image.

Shiira Mini (Max OS X, [Tiger], Free)
Dashboard browser that supports flash, bookmarks and bookmarks among other things but it remains lightweight and useful for quick browsing.

Camino (Mac OS X, [Tiger], Free)
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Uses the Mozilla Gecko rendering rendering engine that FireFox uses but features better integration with OS X due to being programmed in Cocoa.

OmniWeb (Mac OS X, [Tiger], $14.95)
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Apparently it's very quick. It offers built-in session saving and ad-blocking.
 
I'm using Minefield 3.0b2pre(which, for those of you that don't know, is a nightly build of Firefox 3) and, despite being beta software, it is very reliable and fast. Plus, all the extensions I use are either already compatible, have beta builds that are or work after Bumping
 
haha just installed minefield; it imported my extensions so i ran nightly tester tools on it. bad idea.

right click menus = crash. theme = incompatible.

and not that much faster, i don't think, so back to firefox for me.

also regarding thunderbird:

From the makers of Firefox, Thunderbird is an easy to use SMTP/POP3/IMAP client. It has all the basic features, but also has access to add-ons. The only one I can think of though to get is Minimize to Tray. It is very light on system resources. - Sonuis

it really isn't. if you're looking for light, stick to outlook or outlook express (the older versions aren't too shitty haha). thunderbird turns into a hog over time, as firefox does.

i still use thunderbird, simply because i'm used to it.
 
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