I am no big fan of M$, however IE has good points guys. It was one of the first to support most of the CSS tags. Netscape lagged behind big time.
Aside from that, screw jscript, screw vb script, and the j# V/M
I prefer phoenix for speed.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ Opera is sexy and highly functional.
Netscape and mozilla just bug me for some reason. I think it is the size of them. If I use one of them I use Mozilla.
In Linux I usally use Lynx
http://lynx.browser.org/ because it is just that much quicker and I am never surfing anymore to see how prety a site is. I mostly look for the content.
I am intersted in Safari though
http://www.apple.com/safari/ But....
Check the system requirements:
Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar” or later
Any Macintosh computer
No go there. It probably rocks because they are only building it for one platform. I imagine that makes it less bulky, and the project is moving much faster.