Question: I want to be able to launch multiple browser windows and get the html from them and interact with them like I can with the .net web browser control. The problem is the c# web browser control requires STA threading and that makes my program slower and error prone. Is their a way I can talk to the real IE browser or even Chrome, Firefox etc and do this?

I know there is paid third party solutions and stuff but I was wondering if anybody knew of any free libraries that are reliable and work. I can't use HttpWebRequest for what I am doing, so don't suggest that please.

I will be running on Windows and using C#.

Answer: 
I have used WebKit.NET. Its free and works great (supports flash, css, renders correctly, has a javascript engine). It may or may not be to extensive for what you are doing.

<http://webkitdotnet.sourceforge.net/>

There are plenty of guides, and the demo has a fully featured tab system.

EDIT: I was fooling around with it, and made an enhanced version of the demo

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BnHcR.png)
Or another webbrowser control: <http://code.google.com/p/geckofx/>

[Embeding Firefox Brower In C# Using GeckoFX](http://winform-net.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/embeding-firefox-brower-gecko-engine-in.html)