The quest for the perfect browser

There's a significant advantage to having one kind of browser in the world; web page designers only have to support one standard. Unfortunately, the de facto standard is Internet Explorer, which although a competent browser, is hardly ideal. Microsoft has just released a new version along with SP2 that still doesn't incorporate tabbed browsing. I consider this a must have. Once you try tabs, it's hard to do without. At least it finally has a pop-up blocker.

Right now I'm running Avant through its paces. It starts with a significant advantage since it's built on top of IE. Although it doesn't render pages as fast as Firefox, it renders more of them more accurately. As is true of so much in life, it all boils down to tradeoffs.