Measure twice, cut three times, start over. Repeat as necessary.
FF and IE both crashed and burned on my wife's laptop.
(Under the hood, FF and IE are like two peas in a pod.)
I tried to download Opera for her, but, I forget why that never happened.
I stuck Chrome on it and she's been using that for about a year now.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
Firefox on linux. I hear claims that Chrome/Chromium is faster. I don't find that. Firefox has a LOT of useful add-ons. I also find secuity on Firefox more 'granular' though that may be just my feeling. I may find myself installing Chrome because newer versions of Flash are not available for linux. Hasn't been an issue so far though, flash 11.x does what I need it to do. I'm pretty sure Google knows enough about me, they don't need to know more.