Opera
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Well, for starters I could use the classic "Microsoft and everything related sucks"-argument, but I guess I don't feel it applies all that much. IE does a lot, and does it well. And it's also the most used browser, so people design for it. Opera can't do everything IE can, so it might feel limited. That was a much bigger thing a version or two ago though, when Opera didn't support any kind of CSS. Now it's so close it even does some things better than Netscape, so with the other features it's easy to just sit around using Opera and only jump into IE when you really have to.
Keeping everything inside on main window, and the features connected to that, is probably the greatest thing about Opera. Never again can a site expand to fill the entire screen, unless you've given Opera the whole screen already. And your taskbar won't get cluttered either, always just one Opera window there. And the tabs for each window become so much better placed than when using IE. If you like (and I do!) Opera can remember what's inside each window on shutdown and reconnect everything when it's restarted. Just open interesting links in new windows and leave them there for whenever you like, not worrying about shutdowns making them go away or anything or them showing up all over the alt-tab menu.
There are so many more features in there, even if I don't use them. Page zooming, per-window acitvation/deactivation of image loading, all the options IE has of course, and more ...
All in a package less than one tenth the size of IE! Oh, and nowadays it's just as free as those two less interesting ones as well ...
