Which is the fastest browser in your opinion, among those you've tried using?

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I've used five broswers in my life thus far. Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and....guess what? The fifth one? Nah, not Netscape or Safari; it's Real Player!! I was surprised to discover that the real player could even be used for a web browsing tool. I did surf with it for sometime and it was actually strangely amusing to browse from a media player. However, I quit it soon as I don't reckon it to be nearly half as secure as e.g. Firefox. Coming back to the topic, which is the fastest browser in your opinion, among the ones you've tried so far? Let me share my experiences, starting from the worst (w.r.t browsing speed of course). The worst I encountered was Internet explorer 6.0 - I was so fed up with the sluggishness of this edition that I developed a kind of aversion towards I.E. And so, I didn't upgrade to the later versions of IE. Firefox was great, exciting with its wide array of add-ons - but it's speed relatively bothered me since I had already used Opera which was undoubtedly faster than firefox. But ever since they came up with their third edition, the current one - I'm full praises for them. They have successfully emulated Opera providing for a faster surfing experience. Meanwhile, Google tossed in their own new broswer, chrome, which I feel still has a long way to flank the likes of Firefox and Opera. I find chrome a bit quirky - I suspect it's a victim of MPD; while it can zestfully drag some very sophisticated sites at your feet within a fleeting second, it knows to bear as well a bitter indifference to some of the simpler ones. So, what has been your fastest browser? And what broswer have you been currently lingering over? For basically what reasons? Do share your experiences!