Just pinging a couple Freepers whose names I recall ...
no offense intended to anyone I left off.
Thank you, I am honored to be listed in such company.
I work and play on a wide variety of machines every day, about 30% Windows, 30% Linux, 30% Mac, and the remaining 10% split among FreeBSD, SunOS/Solaris, etc.
** For me, the single most important characteristic for a browser is solid cross-platform synchronized support on Win/Lin/Mac.
** The second most important characteristic is technical accuracy and a wide variety of available tools, extensions, add-ons. I use them.
** I ignore ideology. If I chose my browser based on ideological purity of the company or its parents, I'd be outta luck, so I hold my nose and ignore politics and social position.
As an aside, if I chose my operating system based on ideology, I'd have to drop Linux (given that pair of socialists, Torvalds and Stallman), and of course Apple and Microsoft because of their social/political impurities, so what the hell is left? Nah, can't do that.
So, bottom line.... I mainly use Firefox. Chrome pisses me off so much I can't use it effectively. Internet Explorer pisses me off a lot more than Chrome, and it's out anyway because it's Windows-only.
So I guess if you're going to stay away from FF because of their social stance, I can't help you much with a recommendation I've tried. Sorry about that.
Fortunately I see that a number of other FReepers have suggestions. Best of luck with them, and thanks for asking!
FRegards, Dayglored