I've tried them all,except for firebird, (gotta get to the site and download it) and there all pretty good, each has some different features that I like, but overall I like opera the best, but it's all personal preference.

flash is extremely slow in my browsers!! Can someone help me fix this?

those who want something complete will choose netscape or the big mozilla(pretty much the same stuff) and the others will want something light like firebird/firefox-sylpheed/thunderbird etc...
I don't use opera but i used to use it when i was using windows but it was buggy with plugins on linux so i never looked back even if i liked the UI and disliked the ADS.

I keep hearing that there is no shockwave for Linux. Check out this link and tell me if this is what you say Linux doesn't have. I'm wondering if this is the same Shockwave mentioned. I know it says flash player but I had to download a flash player separately from this file. My browser said that I didn't have the Shockwave program installed and sent me to this link to download it. The site I was on required Shockwave and until I installed this, I was not able to view the page. I'm a relative noo-b to all this so I'm just throwing out this link for your consideration.

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...7_linux.tar.gz

Good day!

Mike