Comparison of web browsers

How are malicious plugins a con for Firefox? That's like knocking Seagate hard drives because they can hold malware. A malicious plugin will affect any browser that hosts it.
Firefox does not start up slowly. I have 70+ extensions enabled and it opens within 5 seconds. A stock Firefox should open within 2.

Give download destinations
Huh?

Cons-I'm not sure I have not ever used it except for on my wii
How is that a con?

Here is mine:

Google Chrome

Pros: Fast, secure

Cons: No Mac or Linux version (yet), no addon support (yet), privacy problems, official google version isn't OSS (only Chromium is)

Mozilla Firefox

Pros: Secure, addons support, OSS (sort of)

Cons: Not the fastest browsing engine anymore, brand is copyrighted

Opera

Pros: Fast, widgets, secure, runs on several different devices (Wii for example)

Cons: No addons, bloated interface (on the PC version at least)

Safari

Pros: Fast, secure (uses Chrome's engine, Webkit)

Cons: No Mac or Linux version, no addon support, freaking ugly on Windows

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Pros: Comes with Windows... uh... and that is all

Cons: Safety problems, drive-by downloads, bad standards support, latest versions only available for latest versions of Windows.

Maxthon

Pros: doesn't break IE made pages while having recent browser features

Cons: having the IE engine means it has most problems that IE has (safety problems, bad standards support)

Also, you can set up Firefox to ask the download place on Tools > Options, and checking "Always ask where to save downloads", or setup a different place to save downloads.

I've already tried all of the ones you said (except Maxton, but I know enough to review it, and I never tried even to know what the hell is the AOL browser, I only know it is baaaaaaad). So here is my opinion on all of them.

Google Chrome:
Pros: Fast, simple, clean
Cons: Lack of features (like RSS), no Adblocking (you can with privoxy)
(You can also use Chromium or Iron)

Firefox:
Pros: Fast, simple, addons
Cons: Memory, startup time

Opera:
Pros: Fast, many features, widgets(useless)
Cons: Cluttered toolbar, no adblocking (you can use fanboy.nz adblocking list), useless widgets

Maxthon:
Pros: Faster than IE
Cons: Trident Engine, Made in China

Safari:
Pros: Good in Mac
Cons: Bad in Windows

IE:
Pros: Website friendly
Cons: SLOW!!

MINIMO (firefox)
Pros: Great idea, support for many web based sites, tabbed
Cons: the most bloated browser for Win CE, Resource hog, unstable, no longer active, no support

Opera PocketPC
Pros: fast light and effecient PocketPC browser, Tabbed, works with most sites, stable
Cons; shareware, Costs $$

Opera 9.5 Beta
Pros; fast and effecent, upgradable, mostly stable
cons: ugly, Beta

IE mobile (windows Mobile 5)
Pros; very light, effecent, highly stable
Cons; based on the IE5.5 interface so some sites will not work, insecure, not upgradeable without upgrading the OS itself or even the whole device

Firefox
Pros: Can block every ad on the Net
...topic over. (At least for me. If the lack of an ad blocker ain't a deal breaker for you, carry on.)

Well, you can never make a perfect solution, but I strongly believe that currently Firefox is the optimal one.