What are the best web browsers for Manjaro?

Many privacy preferences enabled by default. See More

score 54 · Answer 2

LibreWolf

Top Pro

Carefully hardened browser

Specs

License:MPL - 2.0

Browser Engine:Gecko

Based On:Firefox

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

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

score 111 · Answer 3

Brave

Top Pro

Safety and privacy well taken care of

Top Con

Sync issues

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

ReasonableBorysthenis's Experience

Fast and smooth! Earn money while browsing with Brave Rewards! See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

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

Based On:Chromium core

Top Pro

Built-in adblock

Top Con

New crypto currency feature brings ad shown feature by default

Old Brave versions are much better. New versions brings crypto currency feature which show ads by default. See More

UnderstandingDhakan's Experience

Spunk little browser... fast approaching > 40M monthly users! 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

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

MotivatedHelios's Experience

Went from cautious about using Brave to using it the most! See More

Top Pro

EFF's Cover Your Tracks

Scores the best of any browser on EFF's Cover Your Tracks test!!! See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chromium. See More

ThriftyAdrestia's Experience

IMO best browser out there at this time. See More

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. 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

ImpartialBeChuille's Experience

Works well. See More

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Top Con

Brave is an Ad company

Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.) See More

MotivatedNinlil's Experience

Tried abunch this works best. See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

Top Con

No cloud sync like Firefox

PreciseCaerIbormeith's Experience

I checked out 19 browsers and Brave was the best for me. 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

Translate is messed up

NeighborlyKotharWaKhasis's Experience

Blocks annoying time consuming ads!!! See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblocking

Other apps make it difficult to block ads without rooting your phone or going through unoptimized add-on stores, but Link Bubble blocks them out of the box, making browsing much less crowded. Contains an optional "Allow Brave Acceptable Ads" So you can support the site you truly enjoy. See More

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

Quite ironic for the "privacy" browser. See More

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

Superb - after having issues with Chromium missing out on Chrome action, Brave saved the day with no issues whatsoever, but many benefits. See More

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

It's now a faster, less intrusive Chrome. 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

Takes care of privacy and security

Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. 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

No user sandbox

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 Pro

Planned optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

Basic Attention Token; you will be able 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 Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

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 Pro

Sync is now available

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

Top Pro

Supports the latest technologies

Brave regularly adds new functionalities like decentralized domain support and a native crypto wallet long before Chrome considers them. These features to be disabled in settings. See More

Top Pro

Blocks fingerprinting

Fingerprintiing is a more advanced technique used to track and identify users. Brave does a good job preventing this tracking technique. See More

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

score 69 · Answer 4

Pale Moon

Top Pro

Still supports some very good extensions not available on Firefox anymore

Top Con

Insecure

HumbleKingu's Experience

Fast and low memory usage See More

Specs

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Is not spyware like Chrome or Firefox. See More

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Top Con

Insecure

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

CuriousLyssa's Experience

Pale Moon has been shutting down my Screen in Manjaro. I have to disconnect the battery and shut the Computer down in order to use it again. See More

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

EarnestAstraea's Experience

Didn't like it. See More

Top Pro

Independent from Google and Mozilla

Pale Moon is based on some old Firefox code, but it's a completely different browser. See More

Top Con

Unsecure

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

MotivatedNinlil's Experience

Not supported on macOS which I use. See More

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Incompetent developers

NeighborlyKotharWaKhasis's Experience

The rating they gave this is unbelievable! This is NOT even in the top 4! See More

Top Pro

Stable

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

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

CromulentDamasen's Experience

very good See More

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

Top Con

Uses Goanna

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

ToughPirwa's Experience

It does have web content isolation is not a one-man show and does not have a outdated rendering engine. Don't believe in FUD spread about it. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22399 http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml https://old.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/evywwj/how_secure_is_pm_really/ffzc5iw/ See More

Top Pro

Supports complete themes

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

Top Con

Based on very outdated Firefox code

Top Pro

Open source

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

Top Pro

Good community support

Top Pro

Support for existing web standards

Top Pro

Customizable

Top Pro

Support for GTK themes

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

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

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

Don't believe in FUD spread about it

It does have web content isolation is not a one-man show and does not have a outdated rendering engine. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22399 http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml https://old.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/evywwj/how_secure_is_pm_really/ffzc5iw/ See More

Top Pro

Optimized for modern processors

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

score 49 · Answer 5

Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

High performance

Top Con

Pocket integration

FantasticMacGreine's Experience

Snappy, fast, decent 1080p youtube performance. I'm using the Arm version of Manjaro linux using the KDE plasma desktop on a raspberry pi 4 8GB. So that performance is amazing! See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

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

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

Default Search Engine:Bing

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 Pro

Free, open source and community driven

Top Con

Mozilla once partnered with George Soros to fight misinformation

Mozilla once partnered with George Soros to fight misinformation. See More

ThriftyAdrestia's Experience

Not as good as Brave but probably the 2nd or 3rd best... Brave , Firefox, Tor. See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

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

MellowTriglav's Experience

A very good Browser, i dont have problems. See More

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. 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

Yanis's Experience

The fox is back 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

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

Uses Less Resource and has lower memory fingerprint than its 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. Firefox 57 (Quantum) and newer uses less resources than ever. It is proven with benchmark done by AppleInsider. See More

Top Con

Abandoned XUL for webextensions

Top Pro

Strong developer tool

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

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

Terrible user interface

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Unstable add-ons

E10s has already caused many extensions to not work properly. Also, in November, only add-ons with WebExtension API can be installed. 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

Partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. 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 Con

Experiments

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 Con

Devtools for WebExtensions are buggy

Top Pro

Mobile

Firefox has a solid mobile app. See More

Top Con

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 Con

It's Mozilla

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme

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 Pro

Automatically updated

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

Screenshots tool: easy screenshots without extensions

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. Within the browser itself, you can easily take screenshots and save them to your computer. 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 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

The same company that bought Startpage See More

score 59 · Answer 6

Waterfox

Top Con

Owned by an advertising company

Top Pro

Less bloated than Firefox

Pocket is removed Telemetry is removed Data collection is removed Startup profiling is removed See More

LoyalXantico's Experience

an excellent browser on manjaro , not slow, not laggy and unlike FF doesn't phone home. See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

Browser Engine:Gecko

Based On:Firefox

Default Search Engine:Bing, Startpage

Need to do something about it. See More

Top Con

Laggy

Top Pro

No tracking

Other browsers track you, even if they say they don't, and even if you tick the boxes to stop tracking. See More

Top Con

Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze

Need to do something about it. See More

Top Pro

Never Ever Freezers

High Reliability See More

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

Top Pro

Works with Firefox addons

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

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

score 26 · Answer 7

Iridium Browser

Top Pro

Privacy enhancements over Chromium

Top Con

Definitive unique browsing-fingerprint

MotivatedHelios's Experience

Virtually non-functional for me. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (BSD)

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

Based On:Chromium

Top Pro

Disabled features

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

MotivatedNinlil's Experience

Terrible. See More

Top Pro

BSD license

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

Top Con

Extensions MUST be updated manually

Top Pro

Extensions are updated manually

They won't update automatically in the background. 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

Simple installation

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

Top Con

Dependent on Google

Top Pro

Lots of extensions available

Due to access to the Chrome Web store. 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

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 Pro

Based on Google Chrome

Supports all the modern web features See More

Top Pro

Fast

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

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption. See More

score 7 · Answer 8

Midori

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Little buggy

It comes with immutable shortcuts that sometimes misfunction. For instance on my manjaro midory does not let me type '/' occasionally. Backspace as well works intermittently, most of the type I have to type shift+backspace to erase characters on address bar. See More

ThriftyAdrestia's Experience

Download site gets a security warning!!! See More

Specs

License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:WebKit

Based On:N/A

Default Search Engine:Lycos

License:OpenSource (GPLv3)

score 17 · Answer 9

Falkon

Top Con

Linux-only

Top Pro

Lightweight

Specs

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Based On:QupZilla

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Top Con

Weak multimedia support

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

Top Pro

Free and Open Source

GPLv3 license. See More

Top Pro

Developed by KDE

It's possible to change and add keyboard shortcuts for basically all commands. It also has single key shortcuts to execute actions with one click. See More

score 22 · Answer 10

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Full of customizable keyboard shortcuts (can be completely keyboard-driven)

Top Con

Not available on the iPhone

There is an Android version Vivaldi, but no iOS version. iPhone and iPad users are out of luck. See More

AwareCopacati's Experience

Fast and very easy to modify and personalize. I like to have bookmarks and everything on the side, at the end gives a quite big screen. See More

Specs

License:BSD+Proprietary

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

Based On:Chromium

Top Pro

Notes

A notes panel allows to save notes from webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them. Thumbnails are too small and Notes do not have separate page in settings, but it should, there are a lot of things to improve. See More

Top Con

Telemetry

According to its privacy policy, Vivaldi sends an approximate location, randomized ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message every 24 hours. See More

FantasticMacGreine's Experience

Slow, laggy. Youtube performance is horible. won't go above 480p. See More

Top Pro

Built for power users

Vivaldi includes lots of niche functionality such as the ability to move tabs to any side of the screen, turn images on and off, or render pages with monospace fonts. See More

Top Con

Extensions miss hotkeys

You can set your shortcuts at vivaldi://extensions, but they do not work. See More

CourteousLibitina's Experience

Full featured, smart and user focused browser, it don't depends too much on extensions and can also be used as a POP/IMAP/SMTP multi-accounts email client, RSS agregator and calendars manager. Very good tabs management, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, customizable UI, security and privacy oriented at all level, like web pages translation See More

Top Pro

Synchronisation

Everything can be synced with a Vivaldi account. Though there's still no mobile version, you can sync between computers and OSes. See More

Top Con

Advertisements in the bookmarks

By default: Vivaldi has a number of websites (such as Amazon) already bookmarked. New bookmarks may be added to the speed-dial when the browser updates. These bookmarks can be deleted, same as any other bookmark, but that will not stop new bookmarks form being added. See More

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

This is great to use. Customisable keyboard shortcuts can also be mapped to mouse gestures, and with so many very useful shortcuts. Now I use only Brave and Vivaldi - Vivaldi has the 'power' and Brave is the default 'safest' system option. See More

Top Pro

Custom search engines

You can add as many search engines as you like. For example you can set up one for YouTube, one for Wikipedia, or whatever you want: you need only the URL of the search and it can be used from the URL bar (by prefixing it's nickname, yt for YouTube for example). See More

Top Con

No silent background updates

Unlike most modern browsers, Vivaldi doesn't have the option to update silently in the background. It gives you a dialog box when an update comes out. Worse, the box doesn't warn you that not updating the browser could lead to security risks. That could be pretty bad for your average joe, who doesn't know computers that well. See More

Top Pro

Tab bar position can be changed

You can change tab bar position to top, bottom left or right. See More

Top Con

Developers do not care for your privacy

Top Pro

Manages bookmarks well

Vivaldi has an excellent bookmarks system. Bookmarks can be easily accessible via Speed Dial, side-bar, bookmarks bar, quick commands. No more messy bookmarks bar is needed and location bar suggestion is improved thus! See More

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

Vivaldi 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 Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Built-in page capture

Vivaldi can grab a picture of the whole webpage or part of it and saves it automatically inside a note or as a file in your disk, or in your elected directory. But I have problems with images of full windows shown on monitor (using X Window System in GNU/Linux). Here I use system XWindow screenshots. See More

Top Con

No guarantee that you won't lose your session

The browser window may freeze at any time, and you lose all your progress, open windows, and session without an option to restore it next time you open your browser. See More

Top Pro

Built-in ad and tracker blocker

Vivaldi has a built-in blocker that allows you to select between blocking just trackers or both trackers and ads. With customizable blocking list sources, good performance, and support for all the standard blocker list features you find in ad blocker extensions (with more to come), you might not need an ad blocker extension at all. This also comes in handy on Android, where Chromium/Vivaldi doesn't support extensions. See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Top Pro

GDPR compliant

Top Con

No touch bar support

Top Pro

Fast and safe

Top Con

No option to open saved tab stack as... tab stack!

You may save stack, but you can open it as separate tabs. Interesting that when you save session with stacks, you'll be able to open the stacks with inner settings of page tiling (size and zoom) as well. Contradiction worth of shame. See More

Top Pro

Saving sessions

It saves oversights many options and functions implemented in Vivaldi. See More

Top Con

Feature Creep

Top Pro

Compatible with all Chrome extensions

Since Vivaldi is built on Chromium, the same base as Chrome (among other browsers) is built on, it was possible for Vivaldi developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser. See More

Top Con

No automatic page translation

Unlike Chrome, it doesn't automatically translate pages that are not in your language. See More

Top Pro

Tab behaviour can be customised

The order you toggle, open, close or clone tabs can be modified to match a workflow that best works for you. For example you can choose tabs to toggle in recent order so you can go back and forth between the last most useful tabs without needing to change their position on the tab bar. See More

Top Con

Can't disable all spyware features

Top Pro

Reader mode

Vivaldi has a built-in reader mode so you can remove all the clutter in news pages and read only the content, you can also customise the reader mode, like font size, style and colours. See More

Top Con

Freezes often

Top Pro

WebRTC IP leaking can be disabled

A built-in setting called "Broadcast IP" will stop the IP leaking with WebRTC when disabled. See More

Top Pro

Analytical history

View graphically your most visited pages on a monthly, weekly, or daily basis. See More

Top Pro

Mouse gestures

Integrated mouse gestures. Fully configurable as of Vivaldi 1.2 (snapshot available now). Allows for navigating the web, switching tabs, closing windows, opening settings etc. with a flick of the mouse. See More

Top Pro

Web Panels

Web Panels allow for easy access to any site from the side panel. They are useful for reading two websites side by side or for chatting (i.e. Facebook) and surfing at the same time. Panels can be hidden when not in use. See More

Top Pro

PC Cross-platform

Vivaldi is available on Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS, so it covers the most used PC operating systems. See More

Top Pro

Ability to search through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks in one place

A feature called Quick Commands (accessed via Ctrl + Q) allows quickly getting to settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with incremental search. See More

Top Pro

Tabs can be stacked

Tabs can be grouped under a single tab to easily keep track of all open webpages. See More

Top Pro

Lots of features and customizability

Vivaldi has a lot of features and customizability. Far more then most (perhaps all) other browses, and many to list them all individuality as separate pros. See More

Top Pro

Compatible with most Chrome extensions

Since Vivaldi is built on Chromium, the same base as Chrome (among other browsers) is built on, it was possible for Vivaldi developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser. See More

Top Pro

Programmable user interface

For you programmers out there: Since Vivaldi uses JavaScript, React, Node.js, Browserify and multiple npm packages to build the browser, it can be customized with ease by anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. See More

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

score 14 · Answer 11

Chromium

Top Pro

Latest Blink

Top Con

No official builds

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

NonchalantPodarge's Experience

Lotey See More

Specs

License:Opensource (BSD)

Unlike Google Chrome, Chromium is completely open source. See More

Based On:N/A

Top Pro

Completely open source

Top Con

Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware

ThriftyAdrestia's Experience

Too many problems. See More

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

High RAM usage

Just like Chrome, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM, which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM. See More

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

Doesn't read cookies properly

... and for this reason it only remembers the user logins only in the session. Once the browser is restarted for whatever reason, it forgets everything and the user has to login again everywhere which can become annoying very quickly. See More

Top Con

Misses some proprietary multimedia codecs

Unlike Chrome, Chromium misses proprietary multimedia codecs per default. There might be some ways over ffmpeg and co but it is still a gray zone. Also by enabling, it removes one of the core features of Chromium of being open source software. See More

Top Con

Not possible to disable WebRTC

Top Con

Can be dangerous

There are plenty of 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 Con

Simple, dull, bare-boned

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

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

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

score 1 · Answer 12

Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.9.0

score 23 · Answer 13

Google Chrome

Top Con

Online tracking by default

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

ThriftyAdrestia's Experience

The epitome of trackers and ad servers and privacy violators. See More

Specs

License:EULA

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

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

Default Search Engine:Google

Google Chrome is proprietary software, meaning that it is not open source. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

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

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

I love Chrome - but it's so evil. Now there are great alternatives... Brave is better - but almost the same; Vivaldi is so much better and offers so much more in function. Uninstalled Chrome finally! See More

Top Con

No mobile extensions

Chrome on Android and iOS does not support extensions. 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

It's Google

Data collection! 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

Top Con

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

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

EFF’s Cover your Tracks

Fails this test of privacy. 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

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

Chrome is faster than Firefox

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

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

Customizable by user

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

Top Con

Bad quality control on extensions

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

Top Pro

Can translate text directly

Top Con

It's google

Data collection !? 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

BIG TECH!

Globalist Big Tech tyrants. 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

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

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

No reader view

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

No menu bar on Windows

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

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

Excellent HTML 5 feature support

Top Con

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

Top Pro

Plays more media formats than any open source browser

Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats. See More

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

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 Con

Basic

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

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

No menu bar (except on Mac)

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

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

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