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Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning. This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better. I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser. Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money. But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

For a browser that runs quickly and doesn't crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

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