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score 4 · Answer 1

Boat

Top Pro

Flash support

The browser can play Flash videos, Flash games, etc. See More

Top Con

No directory for add-ons

The only way of finding add-ons is by searching for them in the Play Store. There's no well organized directory available. See More

Top Pro

Floating tabs

You can open a page as a floating window, you can open as many floating windows as you need. The windows can be individually resized and positioned wherever you want. The window can float on top of other applications as well. See More

Top Pro

Functionality can be extended via add-ons

You can search the play store for "boat borwser addons" to find add-ons for social media, productivity, etc. See More

Top Pro

Built-in QR-code scanner

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score 9 · Answer 2

Lightning

Top Pro

Free and open source software

This means you can help developing new features if you would like to contribute. Moreover you can inspect the code if you are concerned about privacy. See More

Top Con

No bookmark folders

Bookmarks can't be organized into folders. See More

Top Pro

Slide-out tab switcher

Tab switcher can be quickly accessed by swiping from the left. See More

Top Pro

Built-in reading mode

Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the content. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience. See More

Top Pro

Incognito mode

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score 30 · Answer 3

Flynx

Top Pro

Articles can be saved for offline reading

A simple double-tap will save an article that can be pulled up at any time. All this is done in the background as to not interfere browsing. See More

Top Con

Asks for unnecessary permissions

Asks for phone state permission which is not required for the app to function. See More

Top Pro

Built-in reading mode

Blogs and articles can be opened in a distraction-free mode that even removes ads, saves memory and uses up less data. See More

Top Con

No desktop sync

Although there's a sync option to sync across devices, it has no web client. If you want to view the links on your desktop, there's no feature for that. See More

Top Pro

Loads links in the background

Flynx can open up to 4 links simultaneously in the background. This can eliminate having to wait for each page to load. See More

Top Con

Messes with any video played full screen

The screen flickers in full screen video mode if any Flynx bubble is open. See More

Top Con

Could be a little buggy sometimes

Slows down your phone occasionally. See More

Top Con

Doesn't support drop down menus

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score 113 · Answer 4

Free Adblocker Browser

Top Pro

Blocks all ads

You don't get interrupted or annoyed while browsing. See More

Top Con

Not really free

To use advanced options you have to pay. See More

Top Pro

Less data consumption - therefore, less money for mobile traffic

Almost 50% of data consumption goes to downloading ads and trackers. And you have to pay for this. With Free Adblocker Browser, you don't have this problem. You get more at a lesser cost. See More

Top Pro

Blocks trackers and keeps your online privacy protected

Because no trackers are downloaded to your device, advertisers and third parties can't track what you are doing online. See More

Top Pro

Keeps you safe from malware, viruses, and other scams

The Browser warns you if the website can bring some damage to your device. See More

Top Pro

Friendly interface

Top Pro

Ensures fast browsing

Because no ads and trackers are downloaded, pages load very quickly. See More

Top Pro

Doesn't ruin the page when it refreshes

It reloads the last loaded webpage when it tries to refresh and you don't have internet service. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android (Browser)

Blocking:Browser Only

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score 42 · Answer 5

Puffin

Top Pro

Built-in reading mode

Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the content. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience. See More

Top Con

Logs browsing history

According to their privacy policy, they log the URLs of all websites visited by their users. See More

Top Pro

Renders Flash

Games and videos. Most mobile browsers don't support it. See More

Top Con

Blocked in some countries

Puffin is blocked in China, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. See More

Top Pro

Data savings

Puffin servers can compress pictures before you download them for faster page downloads and data savings for capped data plans. See More

Top Pro

Optional touchpad and cursor

Some websites require hover. See More

Top Pro

Seriously fast

In tests performed by PhoneArena, Puffin consistently outperformed any other browser both on synthetic JavaScript speed tests as well as real world cold page loads. See More

Top Pro

Loads banned websites

It loads websites which other browsers don't. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Android, Android TV, macOS

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score 279 · Answer 6

DuckDuckGo

Top Pro

Very protective of user privacy

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

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

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

Horrible 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

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

DuckDuckGo has no 3rd party certifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

Top Pro

Can disable advertisements

The search engine allows freely disabling ads. 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 Pro

Has a .onion site

Only accessible from Tor. See More

Top Con

Needs a clearer vision of the future

What's duck's goal or quest? 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

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

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

Search using language other than English is not so great

Korean would never use it. 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

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 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

Hosted on Amazon servers (EC2)

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

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(https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/duck-duck-go-series-unknown--5d9c6644). DuckDuckGo generates it’s income from advertising (Bing Ads) and collects affiliate revenue (Amazon, eBay). 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 Con

Doesn't do personalized searches

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

Top Con

Bing = DuckDuckGo

It uses Bing for the query. See More

Top Con

DuckDuckGo and Yahoo Partnership

https://web.archive.org/web/20161003060630/https://duck.co/help/company/yahoo-partnership https://duck.co/blog/blog/post/311/yahoo-partnership See More

Top Con

Cloud saving still needs work

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

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS

Category:Search

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score 48 · Answer 7

Opera Mini

Top Pro

Very light weight

Great for phones with lower RAM or performance issues. See More

Top Con

Has issues while playing video

It will crash when you are playing video. See More

Top Pro

Completely free

Top Con

Many bugs

In extreme data saving mode, it sometimes won't load page correctly. See More

Top Pro

Has built-in ad blocker

Top Con

Doesn't support some common modern browsers functionalities

Some web pages might look a bit broken but from personal experience it doesn't happen often enough (or at all) to be a major issue. See More

Top Pro

Has a data saver

Opera mini's data saver has two modes - regular and extreme. great for people with smaller data plans when not on wifi. Has also the ability to control the quality of downloaded images and some video optimizations. See More

Top Pro

Optimized for Facebook

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score 29 · Answer 8

Firefox Focus

Top Pro

Keeps your activities private

It automatically blocks any ad trackers and erases your browsing history which includes your passwords and cookies. See More

Top Con

Notification spam

Tells you to clean the browser every single time you open it. See More

Top Pro

Simple to use

Top Pro

Good loading speed

Since it blocks ads, trackers and other things that can slow down web pages, you'll be able to browse the web faster. See More

Top Pro

Suitable as a secondary browser for everyday use

As it is very fast and private it can be used for everyday use together with a browser with your passwords and login information. See More

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score 257 · Answer 9

Tor Browser

Top Pro

Tor sets the standard for safe and private browsing

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

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

Extremely slow

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

Top Pro

Portable

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

Top Con

Does not guarantee perfect anonimity unlike what most users would suspect

Top Pro

Free and open source

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

Relatively fast

Top Con

You will hang on every recaptcha

Top Pro

Uses the Tor network

Top Pro

NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default

Specs

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

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score 14 · Answer 10

Samsung Internet

Top Pro

Ad-blocking features

Samsung Internet supports Ad-Blocking features such as AdBlock Plus, AdBlock, AdGuard, Disconnect etc., but must be installed separately through Google Play, which these apps can also used in other browser which supports Ad-Blocking. See More

Top Con

Not supported by Password Managers

BitWarden and LastPass do not work with the browser See More

Top Pro

Sync with Google Chrome desktop app

Samsung Internet can sync the bookmarks and history to Google Chrome desktop app, where the Samsung Internet extension for Google Chrome is available. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/samsung-internet/epejdmjgfibjaffbmojllapapjejipkh?hl=en-US See More

Top Con

No data saving mode

Unlike Google Chrome or Opera, Samsung Internet does not comes with data saving mode which is a disadvantages for users who relies on limited data usage. See More

Top Pro

Can be installed on any Android devices

Samsung allows this application to be installed to non-Samsung Android devices starting with Android 5.0 Lollipop https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16576880/samsung-internet-android-mobile-tracking-blocker-privacy See More

Top Con

Only for Samsung Devices

While the competitors are vendor-agnostic, this browser is only limited on Samsung devices and can't be found anywhere else unless you pull the APK for the browser itself from the device. See More

Top Pro

Clean GUI

Top Pro

Picture-in-picture (PIP) video

Samsung Internet supports picture-in-picture (PIP) video, which means the video that played in this web browser can be pop-out and visible in the Android screen even if the browser is minimized. See More

Top Pro

Do Not Track features

Samsung recently collaborated with Disconnect to include do not tracking features to prevent any websites to track with each other. https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/introducing-disconnect-for-samsung-internet-f23b29a05463 See More

Top Pro

Notifications

Samsung Internet supports web notification from various websites such as Facebook, Telegram etc. which it will also works even if the browser is closed. See More

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score 698 · Answer 11

Brave

Top Pro

Safety and privacy well taken care of

Things like https everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best. See More

Top Con

Hypocritical/deceptive stance on privacy and advertisement

Brave is advertised as a browser that respects your privacy and blocks ads while still supporting content creators. However, at the same time the company is making deals with Facebook, Twitter and others to whitelist their trackers and ads. See More

Top Pro

Built in Adblock

Contains an optional "Allow Brave Acceptable Ads" So you can support the site you truly enjoy. See More

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

On the desktop: Brave 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 may also hack Brave. However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts. See More

Top Pro

Free/libre software

Released to the community under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), this software respect the FSF's four freedoms, including the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute with or without modification freely. See More

Top Con

Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers

Per default Brave enables hardware acceleration which results in a much higher energy (battery) consumption than the most other web browsers. See More

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Top Con

Dumbed down in the latest versions

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar. See More

Top Pro

Option to pay supported sites based on view time percentage

Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit. And/or, you can decide which sites get what percentage of your donation. It’s called pinning. See More

Top Con

Sync issues

Unable to sync extensions, no cloud sync (only device sync). See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

Top Con

Download package is very large considering it as a browser

Brave take on a lot of rolls besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file. See More

Top Pro

Optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

Basic Attention Token; you can decide to opt into a new blockchain-based digital advertising system, giving publishers a better deal and users a share of the ad revenue for their attention. See More

Top Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension though. See More

Top Pro

Very Fast and built in adblock.

The fastest browser out there. With the latest update Brave is my favorite browser on my PC and on my Phone. The built in adblock and the rewards system are amazing. See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

It's now a faster, less intrusive Chrome. See More

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

Quite ironic for the "privacy" browser. See More

Top Pro

Faster than Google Chrome

Brave consistently beats Chrome in speed, might have to do with less tracking being run in the background See More

Top Con

The iPhone version has some odd behavior

When I reopen Brave, it often returns me to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage I had previous browsed to from the search results page. Might just be my configuration. See More

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Top Con

Bookmark button located on the left side of the URL bar and can't be moved

Top Pro

Built in torrent client

Top Pro

Sync is now available

The CON from below (no sync) is now added. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android; iOS; macOS; Windows; Linux

License:OpenSource (MPL 2.0)

Price:Free + gives money sometimes

Based On:Chromium

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score 1383 · Answer 12

Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

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

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

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

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

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

Awesome customizability

Great library of add-ons. 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

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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

Top Pro

Android version allows installation of addons

Unlike other browsers, Mozilla uses almost the same codebase as with the desktop version so extensions work as-is without code modifications - something other browsers cannot do due to their breaking and sometimes unrelated code branches to the mainline desktop branch. See More

Top Con

Devtools for WebExtensions are buggy

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

Top Con

Partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. 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

Multi Profile are not user friendly

Multi profile require 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

Good font rasterizing

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

Top Con

Mozilla once partnered with George Soros to fight misinformation

Mozilla once partnered with George Soros to fight misinformation. 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

Promotes a political agenda

Promotes a political agenda in your browsing experience via Messages and Pocket recommendations 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

Abandoned XUL for WebExtensions

Top Pro

Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Con

It's Mozilla

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 Con

Terrible user interface

And you can't even fix it anymore because they removed XUL 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

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

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

False positives in virus-scanner

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

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. 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

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 Con

Experiments

They run experiments with users as a form of data collection. See More

Top Pro

Really independent browser

It is really independent browser, unlike many other that are based on Chromium. See More

Top Con

Sometimes buggy

Top Pro

Easy screenshots without extensions

Within the browser itself, you can easily take screenshots and save them to your computer. 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

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

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

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

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

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

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score 275 · Answer 13

Dolphin

Top Pro

Can split views

Dolphin supports splitting the view in two navigational areas, this way you can navigate two different directories at the same time. See More

Top Con

Can hang on remote file systems

It doesn't cope well with remote file system nicely like sshfs or any samba, like when network is not responding/very slow. It just hangs. See More

Top Pro

Immenseley configurable

As with any KDE app, Dolphin, allows adding or modifying toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts. See More

Top Con

"Type" column too verbose

Despite having a large enough monitor, if you keep the size of the browser window small, the "Type" column (in "Details" view mode) insists on including the complete multipart MIME string, making the column so wide that trying to limit its width makes the column useless. Sorting by "Type" renders the list into an incomprehensible mess. See More

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

Pressing F4 with any opened folder on a mounted path opens a console within dolphin. See More

Top Con

Poor optimization on later versions

Top Pro

Also has a refresh option

Dolphin is without a doubt the best fully functional and easy to use and multitask with. Dolphin also has a refresh button which no other File manager has. It's great for tracking a large files transfer; that's what file managers are for - good common sense. See More

Top Con

May be a little slow on startup

Dolphin can be a little slow on startup (depending on distro, hardware etc...). Startup time can vary from a couple of seconds to up to a minute. See More

Top Pro

Easy to extend with plugins

Dolphin follows KDE's philosophy of being extendable and configurable. It can easily be configured and customized through plugins. See More

Top Con

Too simple

Feels weird on KDE because it has less customizing options Konqueror and any other KDE app have. See More

Top Pro

Auto mounts flash drives

Dolphin automatically identifies and mounts external flash drives. See More

Top Con

Can't perform ROOT actions

Developers set a constraint in Dolphin that deny Dolphin to run with root permissions. Hence, if you want to perform an action that require root permissions, such as rename a file in /etc/ folder, you are forced to use terminal or switch to another file manager. See More

Top Pro

Fully supports HiDPI

Supports HiDPI displays. See More

Top Pro

Fast at opening graphics folders

Pictures with or without previews is optional and selectable at the touch of a button. See More

Top Pro

Does not use third party libraries

Unlike all those GTK-based file managers it does not have to rely on external written software for its functionality because KF5 is KDE SOftware and developed alongside. See More

Top Pro

Automatically centers items

In icons view mode, the space between files gets stretched so that there is never and annoying empty space at the right side of the window. See More

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score 388 · Answer 14

Opera

Top Pro

Built-In Adblocker

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

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

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

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 and fast VPN onboard, includes Germany, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Singapore. 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

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

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

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

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

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 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

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

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

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

Cannot stop auto update

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

Extension icons not directly moveable

Top Pro

Battery saving mode

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

Portable

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

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

No reader view

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 address bar in fullscreen mode

Unlike in Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Con

Built ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Pro

Built-in currency converter

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

Top Pro

Lightweight

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

Top Pro

Touch bar support

Top Pro

Fast video loading

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

Specs

License:Proprietary

Based On:Chromium

Browser Engine:Blink

Default Search Engine:Google

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score 3 · Answer 15

Atlas

Top Pro

Built-in ad blocking

The browser uses EasyList data to remove ads from sites. It can further be supplemented with EasyPrivacy data to limit website ability to track you. See More

Top Con

Abandoned

Atlas was last updated on September 19, 2014. See More

Top Pro

Stores preferences on per-site basis

The browser can be set to remember which sites need to be shown in desktop mode, with certain content filtering settings, etc. See More

Top Pro

Can browse two tabs at once

Atlas has a dual pane view that shows two pages side by side. See More

Top Pro

Can be set to very low data usage

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score 63 · Answer 16

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

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

Lightweight

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption. 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

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

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

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 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

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

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score 131 · Answer 17

Chrome

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

Proprietary

Top Pro

Supports the latest web standards

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

Top Con

More resource hungry

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

Lacks ad-blocking features

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

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

Use websites offline

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 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

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

Lacks a download manager

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

Top Pro

Preinstalled in most android devices

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

Doesnt support extensions

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

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score 8 · Answer 18

CM Browser

Top Pro

Fast

The browser attempts to preload pages you're about to visit, so when you click on the link to switch to a different page, it's already loaded and ready for you to use. See More

Top Con

Fullscreen will auto landscape

Will be troublesome if you want to view it portrait See More

Top Pro

Built-in popup blocker

The browser prevents sites from distracting you with pop-ups. See More

Top Con

Night mode has issues

as example it cause instagram image and story content gone See More

Top Pro

Good looking UI

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