Use Firefox or Safari

I currently recommend using Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari as your primary web browser.

Why?

• The IE browser is too tightly integrated into the operating system. If something goes wrong with it you can't just easily uninstall/reinstall it to get it working again: Often you will have to reinstall your whole system to get it working.
  
  
• IE's update support for older operating systems is usually dropped long before the other browsers. If you plan to run your computer longer than MS's planned obsolecense of the OS, you'll be better served by another browser.
  
  
• At the time of writing (Mar 2009), IE is still not 100% standards complient: Although *they* are now working on it, many features break the rules of web-design standards and foster incompatability. All other browser developers have committed themselves to observing industry standards.