I'd use Waterfox due to the robust addons for security/privacy. The core browsers should be about equal.
Do your internet banking on a cheap laptop and use it exclusively for that.
not possible, but i use a different browser for all my porno and 4chan stuff.
Also i empty my %temp%, clear all cache, cookies etc, switch to a differrent browser, reconnect my internet and run ccleaner after each session.
close enough?
I would recommend to just do it and stop to watch porn and read that bad stuff on /b/thats too much of a hassle man..
Another suggestion is to use a virtual machine just for banking and nothing else. I use the Windows XP mode in Windows 7 for this. It's easy to make copies of multiple VMs. Or you can run something else like VMware. That keeps it completely separate from your main PC.
Doesn't stop a keylogger installed on your main OS :/ This could also actually be less secure, as your VM most likely isn't 100% up to date with the latest security patches and software updates.
Hmm well I'm not sure about the keylogger part but it's easy to keep the VM machine up to date and as long as you use it ONLY to do banking and nothing else it's plenty secure if you start with a clean VM install. But no system/scheme is infallible.
Do you really want to install a dozen OS updates and then reboot the VM before being able to log in to the bank website every time?
And a keylogger on your main OS would be logging every key you press *before* it gets sent to the VM. It's a man in the middle attack whether your keystrokes are going Keyboard > Keylogger > Browser or Keyboard > Keylogger > VM > Browser.