Firefox

But beyond the slow factor (which may or may not be a short term thing), there's the ugliness factor. By default it shows a bunch of irrelevant stuff that I don't care about. Sure I can customise it so it shows content I'm interested in - but that takes effort to learn how, and Ma and Pa Bloggs from next door aren't going to go to the effort. Sure it can be customised to what I want - but so can the bookmarks in my browser. It's incredibly simple to set up buttons in Firefox that will bring the local weather up with one click, bring the white pages up with one click, bring google search up with one click - bring my other most used sites up with one click. It's a hell of a lot more simple to do this with the browser than it is with Live.com. Also - why would I want to deal with an overloaded screen each time the browser loads? The answer is - I don't. There's too much noise in my life - I want less. (MS packaging of Ipod anyone?)