I've never been particularly pleased with internet explorer, I've always had the occasional problem that irritates me, but firefox was even worse; constant crashes, pages not loading, irritating as crap.  Today, however, I downloaded a new browser called iRider, which gives me everything I want, and I love it.  I've visited all of my normal sites, like bbc, gamespot, metafilter, etc.., and it runs perfectly.  They have an excellent multi-tab system to switch between web pages, browsing favorites is easy, it's perfect so far.  If any of you are interested in checking out a new browser, give this one a try. 

http://www.irider.com/