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Windows comes pre-packed with Internet Explorer, which has picked up its game quite a bit in its past few iterations, but Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome still dominate the desktops at Download.com. Most of us have switched back and forth between the two browsers at least once, so both earn the right to show up here.
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Mozilla Firefox
For customizability, stability, and (for now) the widest range of add-ons, Mozilla Firefox is your pick. Firefox spent a decade catching up to Internet Explorer in market share, only to see newcomer Google Chrome (below) steal some of its thunder over the past few years. The open-source (yes, even you can submit bugs) browser shifted to a more accelerated release schedule this year to stay in step with Chrome, and made large strides in improving its memory usage issues in 2012.
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Google Chrome
Chrome is Google's attempt to make the For speed, memory usage, and full compatibility with those cool HTML5 Web sites (that Google commissions like Jam with Friends on that fancy Arcade Fire interactive video), Google Chrome is your pick. Developer have been ramping up on the extensions too, to which the popularity of the Chrome Web Store testifies.
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Google Chrome also does a better job of locking down the browser, making it harder for toolbars and other add-ons to change your browser or system settings. We also find that creating custom keyword searches and managing search engines works better in Chrome.
