The best, for me is Firefox, the problem with Firefox is that it just flat out refuzes to run right on allot of systems, which is moronic because there is no reason, that and it takes up allot of ram, but, there are allot of accessible pluggins you can get for it off the Firefox addon website that help with running it, ram usage, and accessibility.
These addons aren't hard to install for any brouzer, and actually I'd say that Firefox is the easiest to install addons into even then, so only judging on how they perform at defaults is kind of silly IMO.
I didn't like google chrome when I tried it, first because at the time, every brouzer across the bord was having huge problems with flash, but google chrome just made it so yeah, it worked, but everything stuttered, which I guess was better, but then everything lagged on that page, you also couldn't see the page title with out alt tabbing and alt tabbing back, and all that speed, which is really overhyped by the way it's no faster than Firefox or newer versions of IE on 8 and above, is traded for truely massive amounts of malware breeding, brouzer slowing, OS confusing temp files.
Some of that may have changed, from the last time I used it, though not the temp files thing, I know because I clean out peoples computers allot and that bastard is always 75 percent of the damned problem...
Also remember, google has never been that great with accessibility, lots of their applications just suck with it, they love little flash and java controlled appplits with lots of big pretty pictures for the people to click and drag and play with... Because it's just soooooooooooo easy!
So don't be surprised if a bunch of important dialogs it comes up with are crap, though NVDA I heard gets better with the google chrone all the time.
IE well, the thing it's used for most, statisticly, is downloading other brouzers... Really do I need to say more? I do? okay...
It's horribly, laughably slow, vonerable to every security risk there is, including dirty looks, and it's feature set sucks.
To be fare, the newer versions are faster, but only if your on 8 or above, but you'll need to deal with metro apps, unless that's okay with you and then, I guess, more power to ya, you crazy person?
But yes, my Firefox is tricked out to the extreme and I love it, it took almost no effort to get it this way, and yet I can solve most Captchas, I have a download manager built in with throttle, multiple connection support, network limit bypassing for downloads and brouzing, I can download flash videos from the page, or several at once, I can do the same with all pictures on a page with out knowing where they are or having the original links, I can remove any element I want and put it back, I can stop all running scripts, I can load youtube videos with no adds and with out them autoplaying, then start them when I want and use all the controls sited people can, I can open any link with a vpn, I can see all the coupons for a site at the bottom of the page I'm on under an unobtrusive heading with a link to a page of them all, I can schedule actions to be done like going to certain pages, downloading something, opening the brouzer etc, for times and days, I can run Firefox with way less ram usage, I can compress the database with a keystroke, I can lock dynamic controls, I can go to the next or previous page in several with a keystroke from anywhere on it, I can make sites always put me on the mobile version of their site which is usually more accessible, and best of all, I get almost no popups at all.
I tried crap sorry on a mac once, I didn't understand why the hell you had to pick the element you wanted to jump to from a list that is long and raps around, I was able to remove and reorganize said list, but it still felt like spinning a giant wheel to pick which page you wanted to turn to in a book, or more accurately what line you wanted to read, or something equally as mideval and inefficient.
I heard you could quote'. set, it, up'. end quote'. to work with keystrokes for those options, my question was, why the hell is it not that way in the first place? And even if there's actual shortcut key combinations, why should I be performing keyboard acrobatics just to read some stuff on a web page that I may even find out I don't care about in a few seconds? I'd rather use letter navigation, or at least really short combos like command H.
The people that can use it seem to be really fast with it though, so if you can figure it out, it seems to get the job done, though it missed things that I was able to catch with Firefox on windows on the same pages...
On windows, saphari is sorta meh, kinda between IE and Firefox? least last time I checked, and a bit weird, it's set up also tries to get you to install a bunch of apple shit no one ever needed in the history of the universe on a PC, lol.
But it does work, I just don't see the point it's way different from mac saphari...
We can only hope that flashless iOS will continue to erode the need for Flash, but as long as even Google are keeping it alive, I don't hold out much hope that it will be any time soon. Perhaps the ultimate irony will be that EME, that is DRM in HTML 5, will be our saviour--though I have many reasons to absolutely hate that, too, it seems inevitable as content publishers want to have their cake and eat it too.