realkman666: After 5 years of making excuses for the shitty, laggy, buggy and frustrating Opera, I'm kicking the bitch to the curb. I'll be keeping Explorer as secondary only.
TL;DR => Firefox
Longer version:
I used to like Opera because it was lean and mean, and wouldn't constantly get cluttered with unwanted search bars and plug-ins like Firefox (and IE). At some point they apparently removed the menu bar completely, and I just find it less intuitive than before, so not using it that much anymore (I didn't find a way to enable the menus anymore in the very latest versions, apparently the menu bar is gone for good).
I think the forced changes were to make Opera more touch-friendly, same problem to a desktop user like me as with the introduction of the Windows 8 Metro view. I dislike having an access to the menu options only through one hub button, and some of the configuration screens just irritate me. E.g. when I select the option to remove cached offline data, it has to bring this completely separate page, from which I need to do it.
One good thing about Opera though, even if I don't have much use for it: its Turbo Mode seems to be a handy way to bypass any ISP issued firewall filters or blacklists, as it automatically reroutes all data through Opera servers, I gather. Yep, even PBay is accessible with it from Finland (the Finnish ISPs are forced to try to prevent people from accessing any PBay servers).
IE, I don't use it that much (except at my work, where I'm stuck to IE8 for some reason, in Windows 7; fortunately I have also Firefox on the side). I don't like how the latest IE versions are usually restricted only to the latest Windows version(s). Firefox and Opera latest versions are also available for older Windows versions... and Linux! Also in the past, IE used to be the slowest one to adopt new functionalities that were already found for a long time in other browsers.
Chrome... I just don't fully trust Google. Maybe there are some unofficial Chrome versions that don't have Google spyware embedded, but I see no real reason to even look at Chrome anymore, e.g. due to Firefox.
I use Firefox currently most of the time, both in Windows and Linux, and Android! The main thing I like about it that it is one of the few, if not the only, browser that can automatically remove all cached data, history, cookies etc. when you exit the browser (without having to use any separate "private mode"). Now even the mobile version has that functionality.
One more browser I decided to try for the heck of it: TOR Browser (privacy, yay!). But it doesn't seem to work without fiddling from e.g. my workplace, so I guess it is less useful to me for now.