Oh yea, you can change Opera's icon to whatever you want.

Internet Explorer.

Face it .... everyone has opinions, no need to fight over it... But if we have to, I LOVE FIREFOX

IE/Maxthon

Perfect combo.

Internet Explorer 6.0 (W/ SP2) and Firefox 1.0

Firefox

Opera, its not bloated at all- the ads are simply google ads (just like neowin has...). Its a hell of a lot faster then firefox and ie for me.

Firefox. Tabbed browsing is godliness.

same here

I vote for the safest one. Acourding to the article The most secure browser is Firefox

its really a personal choice, firefix and IE are both good choices, dont tell me IE isnt secure, sure the default settings are not really secured (well its not bad by default in SP2) but if you tweak the settings a bit then you have a really secure browser. But FF is a great browser too, my browser of choice for Linux

I don't agree. IE still has 5 unpatched critical flaws, while FF and Opera fixed all the security holes

can we say Maxthon?

I see features in this browser which is based on IE that no other browser has put or used or ever thought of.. for those who didnt try it yet, I invite ya'll to give it a shot!

The problem is that Maxthon has the same security flaws as IE

Why the hell aint Avant in the options to vote?

Anyways, I'd have to say Internet Explorer

there, poll made a stick and poll edited a bit to inlcude all variations of the browsers.

bangbang: there is already a thread like this that has been around a lot longer, more post, more view, more votes, and has more browsers listed -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=142798

Please sticky that thread

that one is really old. This is fresher and simpler and all encompassing. I'm leaving this one.

opera for me,then firefox.

Exactly - I prefer IE - not because it's nessacarily any better than the others, but just because I like it!

what uses KHTML?

Firefox is the best

Konqueror (Linux/KDE)
Safari (OS X)

Firefox rules all!

I use Firefox everyday, but I still think that Internet Explorer is a much better browser.

Shouldn't the title of this be "Definitive Best Web Page Rendering Agent"?

I agree with you on that one.. to many glitches in FireFox

Mozilla Firefox.

The Mozilla (Gecko) engine is my favourite.

For me, Gecko without a doubt. !

Gecko...not even a question. IE sucks at standards

I use IE (Avant), and I would choose that (Avant) over Firefox any day, but the engine is clearly much worse than Gecko and Opera (never used KHTML). Gecko's the best IMHO.

God I hate Gecko. I hate the way it loads pages. I will never, ever like the current method of loading pages more than IE's way. IE just gets the page and loads pictures...whereas Firefox gets some text, pushes it far to the right, pushes **** down, moves stuff back over to the left, has glitches all over it for 10 seconds, then corrects itself. I ****ing hat eit with a passion.

Yes, sometimes Gecko does that kind of things. But that doesnt mean it's slower than IE engine. (IMO, I think is faster than IE's engine in most of cases).
But something in Gecko annoys me:
If in an img tag width and height values are given, IE whill show an space with that values while the image is loading. I dont think Gecko does this. For example, if the image is in a cell with no 'absolute' size values, in Gecko that cell will get 'bigger' when the image loads. In IE not.

IE engine may have had a great standars support in the past (comparing to netscape at that same time). But now it's proven that IE standard compliance is not as good as other browsers. (For example, in IE, the css for div:hover won't work, so you have to play with anchors to do what you want. Opera and Gecko will show it the right way).
As a web developer, I think IE's engine is not that good anymore. It hasn't been trully updated since 1998!

gecko for me, personally i dont know if there is a difference in speed but i just prefer firefox over any ie

Gecko!

IE got my vote because it hasnt let me down yet.

aww damn.. i've already voted

IE only because it's widely used and compatible across the web. Well actually I use Maxthon (based on IE)

I like the gecko engine, but none of the browsers that utilize it

Maybe you could make a browser implementing the Gecko engine. I am serious Todd, you could if you collaborated with others.

My thoughts exactly. once maxathon is done with the gecko engine, it will own all

terrible topic but IE 100%

I use Maxthon and love it. I get pretty much all the fetaures I would use in FF over IE (tabs, mouse gestures etc), but I keep the IE interface. I hate how it's so "uncool" to like IE right now. It's a good browser, get over it. I've never had any spy/adware problems with it in the last 7-8 years, I just run Adaware/SpyBot/AVG often, like everyone should...

Anyway, Maxthon gets my vote.

Peace.

camino!

I really like KHTML for it's speed but Gecko for it's "completeness." So I don't know which to vote for.

Mozilla Firefox.

How Internet Explorer's engine got more votes than KHTML is beyond me, but that's completely wrong. Safari is a great example of how KHTML works, and it works extremely well. I even prefer KHTML or WebCore (Safari's version of KHTML) to Gecko. KHTML is standards compliant, fast, and it doesn't have many security holes. Can't say the same about Internet Explorer.

Opera. However, I have used a browser from each rendering engine. I'd put them in this order:
Opera
Gecko
KHTML
IE

I chose Internet Explorer, although I'd prefer GECKO.

The only reason why I chose MSIE was because of its portability. GECKO can't be used externally, and even if it's possible MSIE is so much easier to deploy than GECKO.

I would of chose GECKO because it's:
- Open source based,
- Very fast at rendering pages,
- Complient to W3C Standards (although standards complience isn't absolutely necessary to me), and
- cross compatibility with other operating systems.