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When it comes to surfing the internet, the one thing that you won’t want is a slow and sluggish web browser. Nowadays there are hundreds of web browsers available online. But among them these are obviously the most popular web browsers for a windows pc.

Best Web Browsers for your PC in 2010

These are the best and most popular web browsers in 2009-10.

1) Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source popular web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. More than 25% people all over the world us this popular web browser because of its fast user experience along with latest features like tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (also known as "geolocation").

But what makes firefox stand out from the list of popular web browsers, is the vast array of add-on and plugins, scripts and themes which makes browsing experience totally different and enhanced.

Links : Firefox for Desktop | Add-ons for Firefox

2) Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is another popular web browser comes default with the Windows Operating System. IE 8 is bundled with Windows Seven, and you can also download IE8 free for windows XP and Vista. Internet Explorer has been designed to view a broad range of web pages and to provide certain features within the operating system, including Windows Updates and useful .net applications. They have also made significant changes to the way it renders web pages.

Although there are various functionalities of IE8 but still its lacks performance when compared to firefox and chrome.

Link : IE 8 Homepage

3) Google Chrome

Google Chrome is currently anticipated that it might become the most popular web browser of the future. Hardly an year old Chrome is already the third most widely used web browser, with a 5.20% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. Following in Firefox’s footsteps Google has also launched Google Chrome Extensions [Link] Gallery, where users can install their favorite add-on extension to get better features in the browser.

Not only is chrome a fast loading web browser but also uses a new design structure for itself like tabs instead of title bar and an integrated search and url bar.

Link : Chrome Homepage

Popular Web Browsers > Comparison of Performance

Six Revisions has posted a very interesting infographic of the comparative study of the performance of these popular web browsers.

Clearly, the above results show chrome has the best overall performance with firefox having the fastest page load time. Now you know which browser to choose.