Firefox is at first place.
It eats memory, but I know why - because I have some pretty heavy extensions. And I couldn't live without AdblockPlus anymore.
My friends stopped watching TV in realtime, they use tivo or some other service to record 24h, and they watch everything with delay
of 24hours, but without stupid & boring commercials.
For the same reason any browser who doesn't have possibility to strip down ads & banners is simply annoying as ads & banners
you can't avoid if you are using that browser.
Yes, I know that I can use systematic solution like proxy blocking ads & banners, which would then work for all browsers,
but I sometimes like to check web page
with ads & banners, and editing proxy rules & restarting just to see full
page is just overkill.
Other browsers which support extensions like Adblock & Greasemonkey are usable, and rest are plain garbage for users
who don't know better
P.S. Chrome is interesting, sometimes runs fast as lightning, sometimes it hangs forever before opening pages.
List would be:
1. Firefox
2. Epiphany
3. Opera
4. Midori
5. Chrome/Chromium
6. Safari
7. Konqueror
8. IE
I never experienced any delay using Chromium on linux, but Chrome on WinXP sometimes behaves erraticaly (WinXP is clean install, other pc's in network behave, so I assume Chrome has some glitches....)
That's reason 1 why Opera is before Chrome, reason 2 is Greasemonkey/JavaScript scripts support in Opera