What is the best alternative to&#x20;Brave?

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. Though not as strongly as Chromium/Chrome browsers do. See More

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Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

With their new "pocket" feature, they offer advertisements built-in. See More

Top Pro

Syncs between devices

Firefox Sync is an optional feature in Firefox that allows syncing bookmarks, passwords, and add-ons between devices. See More

Top Con

Cannot directly translate page

Unlike Google Chrome, if you visit a website with a different language, you cannot translate it, which is a bad user experience for some. See More

Top Pro

Free, open source and community driven

Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here. See More

Top Con

Lack of keyboard shortcuts customization

Keyboard shortcuts can not be changed in a user-friendly way. It is also difficult to manipulate addons with hotkeys. See More

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Mozilla is one of the first browsers that advocates privacy. They believe that internet should be in the user's control and not those who run the websites, and so they give tools inside the browser to make the user be more in control. See More

Top Con

When you search in a website (Ctrl + F) there are no marks appearing in the right scrollbar

All Chromium based browsers have this feature. See More

Top Pro

Strong developer tool

The built-in developer tools have been merged with the popular FireBug extension since FF57. See More

Top Con

Installs Addons with updates

Mozilla is installing/integrating addons with every update like the Mr. Robot promotion - it also has integrated Pocket that spams you every time you open the browser or a new tab with partners of Pocket. See More

Top Pro

High performance

The Firefox Quantum update (FF57) greatly increases the render speed and general performance of the browser, by taking better advantage of the user's hardware. See More

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

Which is pretty ironic for a browser that's focused on "privacy". See More

Top Pro

Reader View

Reader View in Firefox allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode). See More

Top Con

Sometimes very buggy and slow

On sites like twitch.tv chat scrolling is still not fixed. Compared to other browsers Firefox is still very slow and feels sluggish. See More

Top Pro

One of the few browsers not using Chrome's Blink engine

Firefox uses its own rendering engine (called Gecko), instead of Google-controlled Blink like the vast majority of other browsers. See More

Top Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

This makes the integration on non-GTK Desktop Environments very hard. See More

Top Pro

Fast

With new integrations focused on security and performance, Firefox is faster and less likely to have problems during use than ever before. See More

Top Con

Multi Profile is not user friendly

Multi profile requires commandline -no remote to use and open about:profiles to create manually (on Chrome, you can instantly create them on right top user button). See More

Top Pro

Open Source

Open Source means that you can see the source code. So everybody even if they don't work for Mozilla is able to look what the browser does in the background. So you can be 100% sure that Firefox doesn't have hidden "spy features" unlike Google Chrome. See More

Top Con

Antivirus has False positives

All Downloads in Firefox are scanned for viruses, but there are a lot of false positives. See More

Top Pro

Good font rasterizing

Font rasterizing on Windows is much better than in competitors. Even smaller text is clear and contrast. See More

Top Con

Doesn’t support multiple languages for spell check

If you write in multiple languages, you need to manually switch the spell check language. See More

Top Pro

Automatically updated

Firefox is automatically updated on the platforms where it makes sense. See More

Top Con

Terrible user interface

Top Pro

Uses less resources

Firefox 57 (Quantum) and newer uses less resources than ever. It is proven with benchmark done by AppleInsider. See More

Top Con

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme

Beyond the toolbar and tabs, it darkens UI elements such as the URL-bar, pop-downs, new-tab page and more. See More

Top Con

Major updates may break any installed add-ons

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Great library of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Now forces install and use of snap

Only on Ubuntu See More

Top Pro

Tagging bookmarks

Firefox is one of the few browsers that you can tag your bookmarks. You can view a list of tags and can search your bookmarks in the address bar with tags. See More

Top Con

New icon looks ugly

Top Pro

Really independent browser

It's not dependent on Google. See More

Top Con

GTK Themes styles the HTML forms

If you're in Linux and you use a dark GTK theme that uses white text and come to a webpage that forces black text on html-forms buttons you will get black buttons with unreadable black text. See More

Top Pro

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Con

Doesn't care for its original guidelines/goals

Mozilla originally aimed to be the "good guys" with user choice and privacy in mind. Their current leadership cannot be trusted to hold those goals in high regard: 1) Added Pocket - a privacy data sensitive plugin, made it mandatory 2) Tried to sneak in advertisement as "drive-by hack", backpedaled unconvincingly once users complained 3) Tried to randomly inject a small percentage of Firefox downloads in Germany with a data collecting plugin (Cliqz) that tech-savy Germans consider adware (no opt-out question asked). See More

Top Pro

Ethical and pragmatic company mission

The Mozilla Manifesto outlines the company's mission and principles. Paraphrasing, they want the Internet to be a free and open resource, and to enable individuals to get the best use of that resource. They do this by creating open source software to which anyone may contribute, so long as such contributions fit with their principles (both ethical and technical). See More

Top Con

It's a memory hog even though Mozilla claims it is not

Mozilla claims it's using 30% less RAM than Chrome but in real life tests it uses much more. See More

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. See More

Top Pro

Fast bookmark management

In order to add an open page to the bookmark bar, the tab can be dragged down and is added immediately. See More

Top Pro

Built-in privacy protection

Blocks tracking cookies, finger print scanners and Cryptominers by default. Can be changed to the user's individual needs. See More

Top Pro

Lower memory fingerprint than competitors

Firefox used to be a trailer in memory usage, but as of 2017 it's less hungry for memory than competitors like Edge, Chrome, Safari and Opera. See More

Top Pro

Text-to-speech (with adjustable speed) without add-ons

Firefox Reader Mode includes Narrate, a feature that adds text-to-speech functionality to the browser. See More

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Pro

Firefox experiments

FF experiments are Mozilla projects available from FF Test Pilot, such as Firefox Colour, witch lets you customise your browser theme to your liking! See More

Top Pro

Firefox Lockwise password management

Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked! See More

Top Pro

HTML5 video preload

The only web browser that only preloads entire HTML5 video which is useful for slow internet. See More

Top Pro

Mobile

Firefox has a solid mobile app. See More

Top Pro

Integration with Pocket

Firefox comes with built-in Pocket integration that can allow users to quickly save the article for a read it later function to easily find any articles saved in Pocket from various sources and devices. See More

Top Pro

Installed by default on many Linux distributions

Many Linux distributions come preinstalled with Mozilla Firefox See More

Top Pro

About:config

Master about:config and uBlock Origin, and all Firefox-based browsers will be yours. See More

Top Pro

WebRender

The newer versions of it will soon use WebRender to render webpages, which'll make it much more efficient by utilizing GPU to paint webpages. See More

Top Pro

UI

UI is better than any other chromium-based browser. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android,iPadOS

License:MPL-2.0

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

Browser Engine:Gecko, Webkit on iOS(since Apple does not allow third party web engines)

Microsoft Edge collects less information than Chrome, but still is collecting data about you and your interests. See More

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Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Top Pro

Fast

Top Con

Microsoft sends all your browsing history to Microsoft and tracks you by default

Top Pro

Supports Chrome extensions

As it is built on Chromium. See More

Top Con

Synchronization between PC and phone is weak

Although synchronization between computers is similar to Chrome, synchronization between PCs - phone is weak. See More

Top Pro

Better web compatibility

Uses the same engine as Chromium so web pages render better. See More

Top Con

Unlike the legacy version, it doesn't have the option to set aside tabs which was a very useful feature

It does give you the option to give feedback for people who want setting tabs aside back, but it's not likely they're going to add it. See More

Top Pro

More private

During the launch of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, the company claimed to have removed more than 50 services intended to collect user data. The improvement in this aspect does not come only from the hand of privacy, but also from optimization. The privacy settings are also a lot simpler to understand, more robust, and better than Chrome. There are three modes, basic, balanced and strict. See More

Top Con

(Integration with) Windows designed by Microsoft so that deinstall/ install of browser of user choice is extremely elaborate

Let's just wait to see history repeat itself, and Micorsoft being fined for it. (Again!) See More

Top Pro

Faster than Chrome and other browsers

It uses less RAM, has tracking prevention and accelerates the hardware when possible. See More

Top Con

Design similar to Google Chrome

Top Pro

Built on Chromium

Microsoft are contributing to Chromium. See More

Top Pro

Great UI

It will soon get a new UI codenamed Phoenix. Very cool. See More

Top Pro

Consumes much less battery than Chrome and other alternatives

Top Pro

Preinstalled in most Windows 10 devices

Most Windows 10 devices have Microsoft Edge preinstalled. See More

Top Pro

Has built-in ad blocking features

If you select the "strict" option in the Microsoft Edge settings, it practically becomes an ad blocker. See More

Top Pro

Fast enough, fair privacy protection and compatible with chrome extensions

Top Pro

Has its own built-in plugin web store

Microsoft edge support both, microsoft edge add-ons and chrome web store See More

Top Pro

Replaces the old pre-installed Edge

Since the old Edge isn't removable on most PCs. See More

Top Pro

You can earn money with this Browser

with microsoft rewards and Edge you can earn money See More

Top Pro

Free integrated VPN

Top Pro

Good features for teams to work together, like workspaces

free Office integrated See More

Top Pro

Lots of features

Top Pro

Sidebar with AI features and new Edge Drop

Edge drop is a good way to integrate your phone into windows See More

Top Pro

Useful features like the reader mode

Specs

Platforms:Windows, iOS, Android, XBox One

License:EULA

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

Chrome allows opting out of tracking by going to Settings > Advanced > Privacy and un-checking any unwanted services. Alternatively Chromium can be used to get a similar browser experience without Google's services on top of it. See More

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Google Chrome

Top Pro

Excellent HTML 5 feature support

Top Con

Online tracking by default

Top Pro

Syncs between devices

By logging into Chrome using a Google account it's possible to sync history, extensions, passwords, bookmarks and other settings between devices. This makes it great for anyone working with multiple devices as it allows experiencing consistent context when in the browser. See More

Top Con

Huge memory hog

Each tab and extension in the browser uses significant chunks of RAM, giving the browser poor performance on machines without enough RAM to supply. See More

Top Pro

Simple user interface

For example, the address bar is also the search bar. Google calls it Omnibox. See More

Top Con

Bad for battery life

Drains battery life on both Windows laptops and Macs much quicker than the alternatives. It can shave hours off the battery life of any non Chromebook laptop. See More

Top Pro

Great built-in developer tools

Chrome comes with built-in developer tools, making testing and enhancing web pages simpler for those of us involved in working with such technologies. As well as being beneficial to developers, this also has some benefit to non-technical users; in that by making testing simpler for developers those developers are more likely to use Chrome for their tests, and can spend more time making improvements over investigating underlying causes of issues. See More

Top Con

Not fully open-source

While most of Chrome is open source: Chrome does have some closed-source components to make it possible to play some closed media formats. See More

Top Pro

Plenty of extensions

There are far more available on this browser than any other, and that may matter for some. See More

Top Con

Increasingly slow

When Chrome first came out, it was known for being lightweight and very speedy. Over the years, more and more features have been added to Chrome. Because of this, crashes, errors, and general laggy-ness has increased noticeably. See More

Top Pro

Good performance

According to TopTen Reviews, Chrome is currently one of the best performing browsers for initial (cold) startup, average startup, and navigation times. Works very well with the uBlock Origin adblocker. See More

Top Con

It's Google

Data collection! See More

Top Pro

Automatically updates

Chrome updates in the background ensuring you're always on the latest version. This makes it much more likely that sites will work on your browser, since (almost) all Chrome users will be running exactly the same version. See More

Top Con

No mobile extensions

Chrome on Android and iOS does not support extensions. See More

Top Pro

Multiple account login

You can have multiple Chromes with different accounts logged at the same time. And it is really easy to manage different accounts. See More

Top Con

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

Top Pro

Works great with many extensions

Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome can keep its fast performance regardless of how many extensions are installed. With more than 10 extensions Firefox gets slower and slower in a geometric progression rate. Google Chrome doesn't care how many extensions the user has installed - 3 or 133 it still performs great. See More

Top Con

Big target for hackers

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. That makes it the most targeted browser in the world by hackers. See More

Top Pro

Customizable by user

Each of the managed users can have their own configuration (themes, extensions, ...) See More

Top Con

Hard/impossible to transfer passwords to a different machine without uploading them to Google

Top Pro

Can translate text directly

Top Con

Bad quality control on extensions

Some just plain don't work while a few actually break the browser. See More

Top Pro

Uses Blink

It uses the blink rendering engine which has removed many legacy khtml/webkit code to be much lighter and faster. See More

Top Con

Basic

Unlike Brave and Vivaldi which are more stable and have more features, Chrome is pretty basic. See More

Top Pro

Only one distributor

Unlike those various unofficial Chromium builds, there is only one distributor, so all Chrome releases follow the same standards. See More

Top Con

Blurred fonts on Windows

Fonts on Windows are blurred, that is especially noticeable in light fonts on dark background. Small italic text is hard to read. See More

Top Pro

Sandboxed Tabs

Every tab runs as their own process, so if one crashes or becomes unresponsive, the whole browser isn't affected. See More

Top Con

No menu bar on Windows

There's no menu bar, except on Mac OS or Linux appmenu. See More

Top Pro

Chrome is faster than Firefox

Top Con

Does not hardware accelerate HTML5 video correctly

Chrome is unable to hardware accelerate HTML5 video correctly which makes playing 4k video on laptops a poor experience filled with lag. Though there is a workaround for YouTube in that a plugin can be installed to force Flash playback instead of HTML5, which plays smoothly and has no HW acceleration issues. There's another plugin (h264ify) that will force to use the h.264 codec video if available instead of the VP9 one which is the resource hog. See More

Top Pro

Simple interface

Top Con

No reader view

Unlike most other browsers, Chrome doesn't have a reader view function. See More

Top Pro

Data collection

Chrome uses online services to collect our data and improve our browser experience. But this also means it spies on you. See More

Top Con

American agents may track you

Top Pro

Engine is open-source

Chromium is open source, except the proprietary media codecs like AAC, H.264, MP3 and Adobe Flash, that can't be legally open-sourced. See More

Top Con

Soon to disable AD blocking and create DRM for the web

Top Pro

As of March 2015, Chrome is the most popular browser on the internet, with a 43.9% - 63.7% market share, Its rendering engine Blink is also the most used rendering engine and used in many products including: Opera, Vivaldi, Qt, Brave, Steam or Electron meaning most developers will be testing their sites against this browser to ensure compatibility. See More

Top Con

Gives too much weight to Google on the future of the Web

Top Pro

Backed and supported by Google

Whilst Chrome is based on the open source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and build on top of it. This means it takes (and contributes to) a number of the benefits of the open source model whilst having the resources, support and investment of a major company. See More

Top Pro

Plays more media formats than any open source browser

Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats. See More

Top Pro

Multimedia Plugins and Codecs included

Google Chrome comes with its own flashplayer and the most common multimedia codecs so you don't have to worry that they are outdated nor do you need to install them as a third party package. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS

License:EULA

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

Browser Engine:Blink, Webkit on iOS (since Apple does not allow third-party web engines)

The built-In adblocker is faster than any extension. It's possible to add your own filter lists. However, the adblocker isn't enabled by default. See More

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Opera

Top Pro

Built-In Adblocker

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

Who certainly need to conform with Chinese government requirements to let them infiltrate everything you do online. See More

Top Pro

VPN onboard

Free VPN onboard (but it's slow and it leaks your IP), includes Germany, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Singapore. See More

Top Con

Trash VPN (Slow and Leaks IP address)

Terrible VPN service. Super slow. It's just a proxy service that leaks your IP address, not a VPN. Not recommended! See More

Top Pro

Video pop-out feature

You can pop-out any video and it will stay on top while you are surfing on other tabs. See More

Top Con

Cannot select tabs

Unlike in Chrome and Vivaldi, one cannot select multiple tabs to move to another/new window. See More

Top Pro

Compatible with Chrome extensions

Since Opera is built on Blink, the same engine Chromium is built on, it was possible for Opera developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser. See More

Top Con

WebKit/Blink is not customisable or lightweight

Opera is built on WebKit/Blink, which means it shares cons of Chromium: high RAM usage (Not lightweight), lack of customizability. See More

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Con

Uneditable default search providers

It can not delete or replace already built-in search services such as Yahoo, Google, DuckDuckGo, and Wikipedia. See More

Top Pro

Opera Turbo

Opera has a functionality called Turbo which increases browsers speed and reduces data consumption considerably by compressing the data that's found in a web page. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

While Opera is currently available gratis (without monetary charge), it is currently not libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefor neither free nor open-source software. See More

Top Pro

You can install extensions on the sidebar

Unlike other browsers, you can install add-ons such as tabs, bookmarks, history, sessions, notes, and extension manager in the sidebar. So you have the flexibility to use it for your purpose. See More

Top Con

Unable to sync extensions

Imagine having 100 extensions and Opera link cannot sync them, which will be troublesome. See More

Top Pro

Opera Sync

Opera Sync allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, passwords, and more from any computer, phone, or tablet. See More

Top Con

No address bar in fullscreen mode

Unlike in Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Opera is full of user controlled settings. Everything can be imported and exported even RSS feeds. It can be skinned in a variety of different themes or it can be extended through the use of a large number of plugins available. See More

Top Con

Buggy

Some buggy or confusing behavior with the bookmarks bar and moving tabs, and entire windows turning black after a while. See More

Top Pro

Battery saving mode

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

Opera uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome will also hack Opera. See More

Top Pro

Opera can have extensions from Opera Addons & Chrome Store websites

Opera supports cross-browser extensions. Opera Addons site keeps quality up compared to Chrome Store. Full of useful extensions, Opera also supports extra APIs like Speed Dial API, Extension Sidebar API and Stash API meaning wider variety of extension possibilities than in Chrome. See More

Top Con

No reader view

There is a great reader view extension which is available. See More

Top Pro

Speed Dial

Opera's Speed Dial (new tab page) has the ability to hold as many websites as you want, and you can customize it almost however you want. You can also organize the websites on the Speed Dial into folders. See More

Top Con

Built ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Con

Basically a Chrome clone

The latest versions of Opera are basically Chrome clones, so they really don't add anything new. See More

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Pro

Portable

You can save the Opera's setup files on a USB hard drive and run its portable version anywhere. See More

Top Con

The advertisements are terrible

There are too many advertisements in this browser. See More

Top Pro

For Opera 2017 & 2018 gonna be time of new

Opera got Reborn UI as the first implementation from Opera Neon concept browser. Snap -feature is next. Opera constantly improves its basic functionality - unlike Chrome. See More

Top Con

Extension icons not directly moveable

Top Pro

Free vpn

Without any cost unlimited and working. See More

Top Con

Cannot stop auto update

Top Pro

Lightweight

It doesn't consume much RAM, unlike Chrome. See More

Top Con

Needs user prompt to install from Chrome web store

Every time you install an extension, you need to say install first from Opera extension list to proceed. See More

Top Pro

Touch bar support

Top Pro

Built-in currency converter

Just highlight price on a website and see this price in your currency. See More

Top Pro

Fast video loading

Opera loads videos faster, making it useful for slow internet connections. See More

Specs

License:EULA

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

Browser Engine:Blink / Chromium core engine

Default Search Engine:Google

The browser comes with 15 addons installed by default, most of which are useless or ruin one's browsing experience. See More

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GNU IceCat

Top Con

Too much bloat

Top Pro

All the benefits of Firefox, but with 100% free software

Top Con

Mainly just an old Firefox

It is mainly a renamend older version of Firefox that comes preinstalled with some extensions. See More

Top Pro

LibreJS

LibreJS blocks proprietary JavaScript code, ensuring your user freedom. See More

Top Con

Not up to date

Latest binary is still version 60.7 ESR and was last updated over a year ago See More

Top Pro

Protects your freedom, certified free by the FSF

Top Con

Requires too much unnecessary configuration to use

You have to manually delete all the bloated addons from your files (only for them to show up again when the browser is updated) and manually install some addons and themes that the browser labels as "corrupt". See More

Top Pro

Extra security and privacy features

Top Con

Very slow boot time

It takes 10+ seconds for the browser to load up See More

Top Pro

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

Top Con

Can't install some Firefox themes/addons

"Installation aborted because the addon appears to be corrupt". See More

Top Pro

No spyware

Top Con

Includes LibreJS by default with no way to remove it

Top Pro

Https-Everywhere by default

Top Con

Very slow boot time

It takes 10+ seconds for the browser to load up See More

Top Pro

SpyBlock

Blocks privacy trackers. See More

Top Con

Dependent on Mozilla

Since IceCat is based off Firefox, it's dependent on all of Mozilla's decisions. See More

Top Con

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:Gecko

Chrome for Android supports HTML5, CSS3, and many APIs. See More

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Chrome

Top Pro

Supports the latest web standards

Top Con

Allows Google to track essentially everything you visit with your browser

Chrome sends usage data to Google. See More

Top Pro

Syncs with desktop browser

Chrome for Android will sync bookmarks, passwords, history, and open tabs from your desktop. See More

Top Con

More resource hungry

Top Pro

Very user friendly UI

Top Con

Chrome favors Google's products and tries to satiate Google's data appetite, what hurts the user experience

Top Pro

Backed by Google

Like Android, Chrome is a Google product, which means the two technologies can be expected to grow together and remain compatible. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Top Pro

Preinstalled in most android devices

Most Android devices have google chrome preinstalled as part of ROM. See More

Top Con

Lacks ad-blocking features

Chrome mobile does not support ad-blocking features unlike the Chrome desktop app. See More

Top Pro

Use websites offline

Top Con

Excessive permissions

The permissions required are excessive and intrusive (including record audio) - a few browsers require this, but there are several available that don't See More

Top Pro

Same Product from Google

Best integration solution with OS #MadeByGoogle See More

Top Con

SSL Nanny

It is nice that Chrome is strict about SSL warnings, but it would be nice to have an option to connect anyway without needing a secondary browser. See More

Top Pro

No competition for chrome on android

Some says firefox, actually firefox is completely numb and buggy. Opera, firefox, uc browser this all are very much slower in front of chrome. O.K one and only faster browser than chrome is Puffin, but this one is very sticky and ugly user inerface. See More

Top Con

Slightly heavier than other options

Chrome uses more system resources than most other browsers, which means it will run slower especially on lower end hardware. See More

Top Con

Lacks a download manager

Unlike most competitors, Chrome has no built-in download manager. See More

Top Con

Doesnt support extensions

All extension from chrome web store cannot be used on android version. See More

If you follow their instructions religiously, Tor is the nec plus ultra in terms of safety and privacy. For the time being at least. See More

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Tor Browser

Top Pro

Tor sets the standard for safe and private browsing

Top Con

Must adapt new browsing habits

It is not recommended to do several things TOR browser that users would want to do in a normal browser, such as visiting social networks and banking. See More

Top Pro

Access hidden .onion sites

Top Con

Not made as your daily browser

It does not support many modern features due security and is pretty slow. See More

Top Pro

Portable

Can be installed and run on a portable device such as a USB stick. See More

Top Con

Extremely slow

Caused by the tor network the browser depends on. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Con

You will hang on every recaptcha

Top Pro

Uses the Tor network

Top Con

Not secure

Firefox isn't as secure as Chrome. See More

Top Pro

NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default

Top Con

Tor is very outdated on Firefox code

It's not that it uses the same browser engine, just look at the logos. See More

Top Pro

Relatively fast

Top Con

Dependant on Mozilla

Since it uses gecko. See More

Top Pro

The only browser package which includes a gateway built-in into TOR, a network where you can actually browse the web completely anonymously

Privacy. It's fundamental. And this browser has enabled and keeps enabling people to lookup things they don't want their ISP/ government or surveillance marketers to see. And what's better they won't know a thing about what you searched. What is visible to the outside world however is the fact: you make use of TOR and probably the TORBrowser this client / citizen of ours is using TOR to obfuscate his /her traffic (=~anonymize ). See More

Top Con

Did not install

Will also not delete either. See More

Top Pro

Safe

Tor is just as safe as Chrome or firefox, as long as you don't visit malicious websites. See More

Top Con

Does not guarantee perfect anonymity

Unlike what most users would suspect. See More

Top Pro

Based on Firefox

Firefox is a great browser, and tor is built on it See More

Top Con

Using Tor on Android is still not great

Samsumg users will never use it. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Open source builds trust on using the program See More

Top Con

Open Source

Anyone can hack the source code and insert malware. See More

Top Con

Too many supporters

Tor has so many supporters such as brave, which makes it more popular. This is another thing how tor will be unsecure. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Browser Engine:Gecko

The rendering of the pages and the browser compatibility with OSX works smoothly, when compared to other browsers. Also you get very high battery life with Safari, when compared to Chrome. See More

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Safari

Top Pro

Works elegantly in OSX

Top Con

OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5. See More

Top Pro

Extremely fast

Top Con

Does NOT block Ads

Doesn't block ads, unlike browsers like Brave and Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Sleek design

– No distraction stuff like favicons in tabs, all that borders, bevels and embosses in panels like in other browsers, no ugly shaped tabs. – Neat adress bar. – Good looking start “show all tabs” screen. See More

Top Con

Poor support for new web technologies

Safari usually takes its time when it comes to adopting new and useful web technologies meaning that the user gets an inferior experience compared to other modern browsers. See More

Top Pro

iCloud syncing

Tabs, passwords, bookmarks and, history all sync across devices. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

While Safari er is currently available gratis (without monetary charge) on Mac OS X, it is currently not libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software. See More

Top Pro

Safari uses Webkit, a great open source web engine

Webkit is very light compared to Blink, renders web pages at an incredible speed, great CSS support and is also constantly evolving. See More

Top Con

Outdated Rendering engine

All other browsers and toolkits (Qt/GTK) have shifted to Googles Blink-fork of KHTML/Webkit so Apple is currently the only main contributor left. See More

Top Con

Terrible support for open source formats like .VP9 or .ogg

Apple does not support open source formats. Instead, they use H.264 and H.265. See More

Top Con

Even on OSX not the best Experience

Video controls are bad esp. on youtube. Only few browser extensions. See More

Specs

Platforms:macOS, iOS, iPadOS

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score 1074 · Answer 10

Pale Moon

Top Con

Unsecure

Pale Moon lacks the sandboxing and other privacy protecting features included in latest Firefox releases. See More

Top Pro

Has its own add-on ecosystem, built on time-tested technologies such as XUL (plus JS and CSS) and XPCOM

"Classic" Firefox add-ons can work, but they are not supported and should be updated or forked to become a Pale Moon add-on. See More

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

Default homepage is spyware and search suggestions and automatic updates are enabled by default. See More

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

It is an really old fork of Gecko that misses many of the newer web features. See More

Top Pro

Light on resources, although it's not its main focus

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

Top Pro

Independent from Google and Mozilla

Pale Moon is an independent fork of an older version of Firefox. Therefore, it is independent from Mozilla and are not affected by their terrible decisions such as removing XUL, adding telemetry, pocket, etc. See More

Top Con

Uses Goanna

It an old Gecko-fork that is developed mainly by one man. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

It doesn't have ublock origin and umatrix. See More

Top Pro

Stable

Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

Top Pro

Support for existing web standards

Top Con

Android version has odd behavior

Clicking does not work. See More

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Contains much less spyware than Chrome and Firefox and all of it can easily be disabled. See More

Top Con

Pale Moon's website is cloudflared

Top Pro

Open source

So we can verify that the browser is not spyware. See More

Top Con

WebAssembly enabled by default

Top Pro

Supports complete themes

Pale Moon supports complete themes, something which Firefox used to have before version 57. See More

Top Con

Lead developer loves Cloudflare and hates Tor

Website is cloudflared and he thinks most sites should be hostile towards tor. See More

Top Pro

Support for GTK themes

Pale Moon supports your GTK theme while Firefox does not. See More

Top Con

Incompetent developers

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

Unlike most other browsers, Pale Moon uses its custom engine. See More

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

Top Pro

Very Independent

It isn't controlled by Google nor Mozilla, has its own engine. See More

Top Pro

Good community support

Top Pro

Optimized for modern processors

Top Pro

Legacy Firefox

Specs

Platforms:x86-32, x86-64

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

DuckDuckGo does not collect or share any personal information. Their privacy page has a great rundown on why privacy is important. The most important repercussion of this is that DDG doesn't use the data collected to tailor results, avoiding exposure to the "Filter Bubble". See More

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score 541 · Answer 11

DuckDuckGo

Top Pro

Very protective of user privacy

Top Con

No date information in search results

In search results, there are no dates when the pages were published, which doesn't allow you to immediately know if the page is outdated. See More

Top Pro

Infinite scroll of search results

DuckDuckGo results page is an infinite scrolling page, so you don't need to be clicking through pages. See More

Top Con

Downranks misinformation results

Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results about the war by Russia media, after Russian's invasion of Ukraine. See More

Top Pro

Ads are non-obstructive and don't track you

The ads are clearly labelled as ads and are non-obstructive. The ads are based on the searched keywords and there's no tracking involved on their visibility. You just need to remember that the site the ad links to might track you. See More

Top Con

Irrelevant search results

They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for. See More

Top Pro

Can disable advertisements

The search engine allows freely disabling ads. See More

Top Con

Owner would compromise his service/customer privacy

In a question to Weinberg, “if you were served an NSL or were commanded to compromise your service/customer privacy in any way, would you and could you just pull the plug like Lavabit did or would you run into opposition from shareholders/investors that would prevent you from doing so?” Gabriel Weinberg said: “No one is preventing me from doing that.” See More

Top Pro

Allows searching from specific sites using bangs

Bangs are commands that allow searching via a different website's local search engine, using keywords or abbreviations with an exclamation mark (!). For example searching "world war ii !wiki" will automatically redirect to Wikipedia.org and show results for the query "world war ii" there, instead of DuckDuckGo, using Wikipedia's search engine. The more common sites have shortened alternatives for these commands. Such as !g for Google, !i for images and !yt Youtube. The whole list of bangs can be found by typing "!bang" in DuckDuckGo. See More

Top Con

Still not better than Google

Results are quite often not as good. They just lack resources to do it, for now. See More

Top Pro

Has a wide spectrum of instant answers

For select queries DDG pops up a box that supplies the exact answer. For example, searching "stopwatch" will pop up a stopwatch, asking for "words like..." will show a list of related words, typing "password" will generate a password, etc. See More

Top Con

Based in US, so they cannot guarantee there is no backdoor

Top Pro

Many customization options for appearance

DDG allows customizing almost any aspect of the search engine's appearance including fonts, page width, alignment, header behavior, site icons, etc and has a selection of premade themes available as well. See More

Top Con

DuckDuckGo has no 3rd party certifications

Top Pro

Lets you watch YouTube videos from the site

Duckduckgo lets you watch videos right from their site, so you can have more privacy than watching on youtube.com. See More

Top Con

Activism censorship

They started to block results based on activism. See More

Top Pro

Has a .onion site

Only accessible from Tor. See More

Top Con

Search using language other than English is not so great

Korean would never use it. See More

Top Pro

Sometimes results are better than Google

Sometimes the search results are better. Most of the times, they're at least as good as. See More

Top Con

Referrers

A referrer is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested. By checking the referrer, the new webpage can see where the request originated.” Basically it tells a website where you came from. DDG does give this out. See More

Top Pro

Has many fun features

For example, if you search "Color Picker" , you see a color picker. See More

Top Con

Bing = DuckDuckGo

Duckduckgo depends on Bing for the query. See More

Top Pro

Can function without JavaScript

Of course, it's nicer when enabled, but it's not required. Some browsers are too limited (mobile, terminal) or turn it off for security reasons (tor, etc.), and DDG still works. See More

Top Con

Search results are often unrelated and limited

Common conversions do not work, i.e. searching for 15F to C does not give you the conversion but just a bunch of conversion websites. Very frustrating. It's a simple thing but makes a huge difference to the browsing/searching experience. Also location based only works for the country you're in. Searching for, say, McDonalds only gives country results for McDonalds and no local results such as where a local restaurant may be. Not very helpful. See More

Top Pro

Good for Linux users

DuckDuckGo has an API with some websites. With the help of this API, if you search for a fix of a problem in Linux, you can easily find an answer to the problem. For example, if you search for "How to update linux", you will get a message like this: How to install updates via command line Try this: sudo apt-get update # Fetches the list of available updates sudo apt-get upgrade # Strictly upgrades the current packages sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Installs updates (new ones) --SirCharlo See More

Top Con

DuckDuckGo has many 'Owners'

DuckDuckGo is owned by Gabriel Weinberg who is is the founder, current CEO and controlling shareholder. Investors/shareholders include Union Square Ventures and several others. DuckDuckGo generates its income from advertising (Bing Ads) and collects affiliate revenue (Amazon, eBay). See More

Top Pro

No filter bubble

DuckDuckGo does not filter your search’s with the data that they have. You get to see everything the Internet has to offer in a safe, private way. See More

Top Con

Needs a clearer vision of the future

What's duck's goal or quest? See More

Top Pro

It's mainstream

This is the biggest private search engine there is See More

Top Con

DuckDuckGo and Yahoo Partnership

See here and here. See More

Top Pro

Lets you go to other sites

You can go to the Wikipedia page for pigs by doing !w pig. See More

Top Con

Shows too few images

When searching for images only, it shows too few of them and only a handful are related to the search terms. See More

Top Con

Hosted on Amazon servers (EC2)

Top Con

Bangs do not protect user privacy and can be misleading

Using these bangs will instantly connect you to the service you requested. For example typing “!g white cat with green eyes” and hitting return, drops you off on the Google website to display your results (thus logging your IP, search term and browser info immediately). It does not get you Google results inside DuckDuckGo. It is reasonable for DDG users to assume and expect a private search engine warns if there is a risk to that privacy being lost, like it does with Youtube videos but in the case of Bangs this does not happen. See More

Top Con

Saving settings in Duckduckgo's Cloud still needs improvement

Cloud save and the ability to pull up your settings on any device is a nice idea but the implementation needs work. See More

Top Con

Doesn't do personalized searches

Since they don't track you the results are not tailored to your interests. See More

Top Con

Form over function (overall search experience is poor)

It's nice to adjust the settings and all but after a couple of days you will want to go back to a more functional search engine. Sure DDG looks shiny and !bangs are great but many wouldn't consider it as a viable alternative. Better results for search queries is more important than fancy looking CSS. See More

Specs

Category:Search engine

Default homepage is spyware and searches are enabled by default. See More

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score 190 · Answer 12

Bromite

Top Con

Still contains spyware

Top Pro

App optimization

Installation size 88 to 105 MB (depends upon OEM manufacturer & usage by user). See More

Top Con

Big target for hackers

Bromite is a big target for hackers because it's a Chromium fork. See More

Top Pro

Respects your privacy better than all other Chromium based browsers

DNS over https (require more flexibility if possible). See More

Top Con

Not secure

Bromite lacks ad blocking and other privacy protecting features. See More

Top Pro

Optimizated RAM usage

Average (depends upon web page complexity). See More

Top Con

Eats up battery life

Because it's very fast, which puts pressure on the RAM & hence ultimately on battery. See More

Top Pro

Excellent bookmarks management

Import & Export Bookmarks, very few browsers have this rare functionality. See More

Top Con

Bromite = Google Chrome

It uses Chrome for the query. See More

Top Pro

Up to date with the Chromium releases

Top Pro

Developer options

Can be enabled. See More

Top Pro

Browser aside app

Browser has “optional (additional app)” functionality of acting as SYSTEM WEBVIEW support (but requires rooting Android). See More

Top Pro

Customizable adblock filters

Top Pro

AV1 codec support

Top Pro

Allows playing videos in background tabs and disable pause on switching tabs

Top Pro

Shows warnings for TLSv1.0/TLSv1.1 pages

Top Pro

Removes click-tracking and AMP from search results

Top Pro

Supports DNS over HTTPS

Help in detail by guide on "Enter a correctly formatted url" (require more flexibility if possible), check clarification for more. See More

Specs

Default Search Engine:Google

Mobile Platforms:Android

Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays See More

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score 545 · Answer 13

Chromium

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

Top Pro

Sandboxing

Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers See More

Top Con

High RAM usage

Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM. See More

Top Pro

Latest Blink

This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside. See More

Top Con

No official builds

There are no official builds available so you have to rely on a third party distributor See More

Top Pro

Completely Open Source

Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses. See More

Top Con

Not possible to disable WebRTC

Top Pro

Access to Chrome's extensions

Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium. See More

Top Con

Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware

Top Pro

Supports all of Google Chrome features

As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome. See More

Top Con

Lacks support for certain common media formats

As Chromium avoids bundling any proprietary software, media that requires proprietary codecs or formats such as AAC, H.264, MP3 and Flash will not play by default on Chromium. See More

Top Pro

Bare

It does not have any extensions preinstalled and focuses to be a web browser. See More

Top Con

Can be dangerous / only available as Source

There are plenty of unofficial Chromium distributors and every one of them can disable specific features (like sandboxing) for their build, so you will never know what you get. See More

Top Pro

BSD license

You can do almost anything with the code. See More

Top Con

Under BSD License

Top Pro

Gets constant updates

While the Chromium-based browser haev to adapt their code to the update before release, original Chromuim doesn't need it so it gets updated more constantly and frequently. See More

Top Pro

Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing

Since Google Chrome is the most used web browser, and that browser along with many others is based on Chromium, Chromium sets the standards for the internet and for security, and Firefox will always be years behind. See More

Top Pro

Backed by Google

Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well. Nowadays Chromium is a large project with a huge community that's standing behind it but still Google continues to take an extremely active role in Chromium development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser. See More

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement. See More

Specs

License:Opensource (BSD)

Based On:N/A

It has some issues with multimedia content eg. Non-playing videos on webpages. See More

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score 301 · Answer 14

Falkon

Top Con

Weak multimedia support

Top Pro

Developed by KDE

Top Con

Now under the KDE umbrella

Qupzilla is now discontinued and renamed to Falkon. It will also now be a part of KDE and will probably need more dependencies like kde-frameworks in the future. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Linux-only

Top Pro

Free and Open Source

GPLv3 license. See More

Top Con

Bookmark management not the strongest part

It often requires quite a lot of clicks to add and remove bookmarks. See More

Top Con

Nobody uses it

Specs

License:OpenSource (GPLv3)

Based On:QupZilla

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Disable "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors" Disable autocomplete through prediction service when typing in Omnibox Always send "Do-Not-Track" header Network/DNS prediction is disabled by default Block third-party cookies by default Link auditing (<a ping="...">) is disabled by default Fetch plugins list from iridiumbrowser.de where it will be updated regularly Site data (cookies, local storage, etc.) is only kept until exit, by default Passwords are not stored by default Input form autofill is disabled by default For IPv6 probes, use a DNS root server instead of Google The default search provider is Qwant Load "about:blank" on new tabs instead of the currently set search engine and/or promotions. Don't report Safe Browsing overrides. Don't use autofill download service. Disable cookies for safebrowsing background requests. Disable the battery status API. See More

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score 303 · Answer 15

Iridium Browser

Top Pro

Privacy enhancements over Chromium

Top Con

Slow updates

Since the whole Chromium Release need to be scanned, PC users may wait half a year while the Chrome base gets updated five or six iterations. See More

Top Pro

Lots of extensions available

Due to access to the Chrome Web store. See More

Top Con

Buggy

Sometimes, removing extensions won't work. Some websites downright refuse to load, no matter the settings. See More

Top Pro

Extensions are updated manually

They won't update automatically in the background. See More

Top Con

Extensions MUST be updated manually

Top Pro

BSD license

You are in control and you can do almost anything with the code. See More

Top Con

Poor debian support

current versions miss support for debian-based distributions which is by far the most widely used group of linux distributions. See More

Top Pro

Simple installation

Provides installers and packages for the most operating systems and linux distributions. See More

Top Con

Definitive unique browsing-fingerprint

Top Pro

Security improvements over Chromium

Increase RSA keysize to 2048 bits for self-signed certificates (used by WebRTC) Generate a new WebRTC identity for each connection instead of reusing identities for 30 days Generate a new ECDHE keypair for each WebRTC connection instead of reusing them for multiple connections Disable using system-provided plugins (i.e. Java, Flash, etc.) See More

Top Con

Google Safebrowsing enabled by default

Top Pro

Fast

It is fast since all background services have been disabled or removed. See More

Top Con

Based on Chromium

Since iridium is based off chrome, it is depend on all of Google's decisions. See More

Top Pro

Disabled features

Disable background mode Disable EV certificates, so they are shown just like "normal" certificates Disable Google cloud printing Disable Google hot word detection Disable Google experiments status check Disable Google translation service Disable Google promotion fetching Disable Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) status check Disable Google Now Disable automatic update check Disable profile-import on first run See More

Top Pro

Based on Chromium

Supports all the modern web features. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (BSD)

Although it has many privacy and security features, Opera is owned by a Chinese company and everything you do online is spied by China probably. See More

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score 60 · Answer 16

Opera GX

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

Top Pro

Customizable

Browser is highly customizable, with dual colors, sounds, effects, bookmarks and tabs and much more. See More

Top Con

GX Control not so effective

RAM, CPU and Network limiter is not so effective. See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblocker

Top Con

May not be for everyone

It's a gaming themed browser with dark and colorful interface. May not be everyones taste. See More

Top Pro

Built-in tracker blocker

Top Con

Opera GX for Android is bad

Slow. See More

Top Pro

GX Control

Lets you limit the network traffic, RAM and CPU usage of the browser. See More

Top Con

Slow opening time

When compared to Edge, Chrome and Brave, this browser starts up a little later due to many features it has inside. See More

Top Pro

Built-in messenger services

It has built-in Whatsapp, Telegram, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and much more and this feature itself is better than most of the browsers out there. See More

Top Con

Practically spyware

Owned by a Chinese company. See More

Top Pro

Built in music player

It has a built in music player which you can listen to Spotify, Youtube Music and Apple Music in the background. See More

Top Pro

Very fast

Using the chromium engine, this browser is as fast as Chrome and Edge. See More

Top Pro

Lots of Add-Ons

Opera Store and Chrome Store is available for this browser with millions of add-ons. See More

Top Pro

It is good for gaming

Top Pro

Opera Sync

You can sync everything via other devices and it is password protected apart from a standart login. See More

Top Pro

Built-in news reader

Apart from other browsers like Edge which forces you to read only their feed, you can add any feed and news channel, and read them anytime. See More

Top Pro

GX Cleaner

Lets you clean browser data easiliy. See More

Top Pro

GX Corner

It's a page designed for game lovers with news, prices, deals and much more about the latest games. See More

Top Pro

My Flow option

The browser has a built-in software which lets you send everything from files to pictures, and messages to yourselves via "My Flow" to your other devices and phones. See More

Top Pro

Built in dark mode system

Top Pro

Built-in VPN

It's a free service and unlimited (but it leaks your IP address). Perfect and very easy to use. See More

Top Pro

Built in Ambient Music player and button sounds

The dynamic background music is an ambient downtempo that will immerse you further in your gaming-themed browser. Actively browsing, clicking and typing intensifies the music, for example, while slowly scrolling and reading will take the music down a notch. This dynamic reaction to your activity blends into the background when you’re in focus-mode, so you often don’t notice it until you miss it. Also when you type via keyboard , a very nice click sound is there to feel like The Matrix computer engineer. You can switch these sounds off. See More

Need to do something about it. See More

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score 300 · Answer 17

Waterfox

Top Con

Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze

Top Pro

Fast

Even faster than firefox. See More

Top Con

Owned by an advertising company

The same company that bought Startpage/ Ixquick, System 1. This is a company that gathers information about what you look at and do, analyzes and profiles you, and then sells it off to third parties. See More

Top Pro

Offers excellent privacy

Does not phone home. See More

Top Con

Goodish, but still bad

Removes crap from FF, but doesn't offer anything you can't already do in FF. Also, doesn't help they are owned by an ad tech, System1. See More

Top Pro

Never ever freezes

Highly reliable. See More

Top Pro

Works with Firefox addons

Firefox 56 add-ons compatibility, including unsigned XUL extensions and complete themes. See More

Top Pro

Less bloated than Firefox

Pocket, telemetry, data collection, startup profiling is removed. See More

Top Pro

Extremely customizable

It has almost every setting imaginable. See More

Top Pro

Multiple add-on support

Top Pro

Works with major streaming services

Includes widevine plugin and suitable user agent for viewing major streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux.

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score 153 · Answer 18

Midori

Top Pro

Very fast

Midori is considerably fast. It starts up in no time and renders pages as fast as many other more well-known browsers. See More

Top Con

Development stalled

There have been no recent updates. Lags other browsers in supporting modern web standards. Many distributions have replaced it with other browsers. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption. See More

Top Con

Abandonned

Top Pro

Allows using webapps as if they were desktop apps

Midori has a built-in functionality with which you can create web apps that can be launched from the desktop. For example, you can create a web app for the desktop to launch Gmail or YouTube or any other web app that you use. See More

Top Con

Misbehaves with Google Web Apps

On some distributions Midori may not work very well for Google Web Apps. On openSUSE for example, Midori starts misbehaving when you are going through Google Drive's folder hierarchy. See More

Top Pro

Available on several distributions

Midori is used as a default choice for a web browser for some distributions (like Elementary OS) and it's available for easy downloading for many other distros through their official repositories. See More

Top Con

Supports insecure cipher suites

This browser supports RC4 encryption which is known to be insecure compared to other encryptions such as AES. See More

Top Pro

Useful plugins are built-in

Some very popular and useful plugins are built-in and available out of the box. For example, there's an RSS feed reader plugin and an Adblocker built-in. See More

Top Con

Another bloatware as Firefox

It is described as a lightweight browser but it is just a bloatware. It crashes sometimes. It is a clone of Firefox which is said to be a RAM-eater. See More

Top Con

Unfamiliar UI

The UI can take a little to getting used to because it's not very conventional or similar to other browsers. For example, it uses a trashcan icon to view recently visited links. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource

Based On:N/A

Browser Engine:WebKit

Default Search Engine:Lycos

With suggestions/auto-complete to reduce the learning curve. See More

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score 530 · Answer 19

Qutebrowser

Top Pro

Vim-style keyboard shortcuts and commands for rapid navigation

Top Con

Software rendering only with Nouveau Drivers

Top Pro

Fast and light on resource usage

Top Con

Steep learning curve

If you're not a vim user, it will take some time to get used to the shortcuts. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

And quite easy to configure. You can even write your own config. See More

Top Con

Slow

As it is mainly written in Python, it's startup is slower than the competition. See More

Top Pro

Great for Privacy

Makes no unexpected network requests by default, unlike most other browsers (Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Firefox, etc). See More

Top Con

Requires additional support and plugins for video playback

Top Pro

Userscripts

Call custom scripts on web pages or links (hinting mode). You can use this for downloading of videos (youtube-dl, adfree), saving web pages as pdf or adding news sources to your RSS reader (newsboat). See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (GPL-3.0)

Based On:N/A

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium. See More

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score 337 · Answer 20

Slimjet

Top Pro

Fast and stable

Top Con

Still based upon Chromium/Chrome

Can yield to bloat if clogged with too many plugins and apps from the webstore. See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblock

Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats. See More

Top Con

Has some CSS issues on some websites

Has problems loading Sourceforge.com See More

Top Pro

Allows for no tracking

Has advanced settings to reduce web presence footprint. See More

Top Con

Stores your history/settings into google servers

Top Pro

Built-in download manager

Multi-threaded streaming download manager with resume functionality. Interrupted downloads will resume when the program is launched again; number of threads and download location customizable on a per-download basis. Actually downloads Linux ISO's from most popular distributions faster than deluge, utorrent, transmission, etc. See More

Top Con

It spies on you

Top Pro

Still compatible with Google's ChromeSync functionality

Sign in to back up your extensions and settings, just like always. See More

Top Pro

Notes plugin available

Top Pro

Easily customize to stop spying verified by OpenSnitch

Just have to dig into all the Settings and disable them starting with SlimJet search. See More

Top Pro

Customizable options to add additional buttons next to the address bar

Optional buttons such as go to home page, reopen closed tab, go to downloads, go to history and many more. See More

Top Pro

Built-in Youtube/html5/flash downloader

Allows for downloading both video and extracted mp3 audio, a la Youtube2mp3. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform, with zipped portable application available for Windows

You can still bring it with you on a flash drive, even when you're not on Linux. See More

Top Pro

Screen recording tools built in

Top Pro

Separate from Google's servers and tracking

Top Pro

Integrated shopping and share-to-social-media function

Button is linked to cookies, so doesn't work if signed out (for security/privacy), and also doesn't include any additional tracking like a browser extension would (Facebook, Amazon, etc.) See More

Top Pro

Verbose resource management

Has a setting to unload tabs from RAM and CPU usage after a customizable threshold number of tabs are open built in. See More

Top Pro

Idle tab unloading and other advanced features not found in Chrome/Chromium

A lot more configuration options for everything from built in "share to facebook" buttons to options meant to enable optimization on low powered/low RAM systems. See More

Specs

License:Proprietary

Default Search Engine:Google