What are the best desktop web browsers?

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

Top Pro

Access hidden .onion sites

Top Con

Not made as your daily browser

Kobold's Experience

Pretty sure the NSA tracks you if you so much as visit the site. See More

Top Pro

Provides anonymity

Tor Browser routes traffic through the Tor network and deletes all privacy sensitive information (such as the browsing history or cookies) at the end of each session. Additionally, it encrypts all traffic. See More

Top Con

Extremely slow

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

DelightfulHidimbi's Experience

It was good. See More

Top Pro

Portable

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

Top Con

You will hang on every recaptcha

ShojiVR's Experience

Good for privacy but bad for speed and reliability See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Con

Not secure

Firefox isn't as secure as Chrome. See More

DecorousAlalu's Experience

DO NOT USE THIS BROWSER! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THE DEEP WEB! We should ban this browser and let the law enforcement do their job. See More

Top Pro

Uses the Tor network

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Tor is very outdated on Firefox code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

HumorousTriteia's Experience

you SHOULD be using this See More

Top Pro

NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default

Top Con

Dependant on Mozilla

Since it uses gecko. See More

Arby's Experience

While others only read their smart phones (Good luck with that in the emerging global biosecurity police State!), I read books. "Tor? Exercise Caution" / https://app.box.com/s/u09k7gv7kftqsmh40pje2l447hwradvb See More

Top Pro

Relatively fast

Top Con

Did not install

Will also not delete either. See More

Yanis's Experience

It's actually pretty good and handy. 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

Does not guarantee perfect anonymity

Unlike what most users would suspect. See More

Holo Deck's Experience

Unsuitable as your daily desktop web browser due its slow browsing speed and multimedia limitations. 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

Illegal

Accessing the hidden wiki or any other content on the dark web is illegal and people have even been imprisoned for this. See More

Akitake's Experience

Really not meant for regular usage. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Open source builds trust on using the program See More

Top Con

Dangerous

Hackers may insert something illegal onto your computer and get you arrested. See More

RationalChalchiuhtotolin's Experience

Good for accessing the dark web and bypassing censorship 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

ImaginativeChalcon's Experience

Great for getting around the web without being noticed! See More

Top Con

Open Source

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

SensibleUksakka's Experience

Not usable as your daily browser, would prefer brave instead since tor is optional there. 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

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

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

Gerard's Experience

Firefox is an admirable internet navigator, pushing the boundaries with its exceptional speed and intuitive interface. Its robust privacy tools and commitment to open-source development set a high bar in the realm of web browsing. All in all, Firefox offers a fluid and safe online exploration experience. See More

Specs

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

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

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Default Search Engine:Google

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

Top Pro

Syncs between devices

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

Janet K's Experience

Firefox has been the champ for the last 10 years. Though Microsoft Edge and Chrome are giving it a tough time but I m pretty sure, Firefox will outshine both of them very soon. So far, it is my preferred web browser. 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

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

Kobold's Experience

The Mozilla Organization basically screwed over its Fanbase. First they required all the addons maintainers to work their butts off to finish 64-bit support within a week. Without a heads up. Second a few days later after the authors finished converting their extensions Mozilla removed support for advanced features that the heaver add-ons used. Second as a user they added bloatware, aka pocket. They removed Tab Grouping, and killed the addons intended to maintain it. They went to a UI which was basically Chrome 2.0. Right now they have seem to understood they decisions were utterly the works of a dumbass and our working on fixing them. However, I would recommend avoiding them until they understand they are to work with and for the community. NOT their idealistic liberal overlords. 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

Uses Google as its default search engine

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

's Experience

Firefox Quantum has made Firefox the best browser again. It has vastly reduced memory usage while improved performance. It no longer freezes like it did previously. It also features full customizability with many extensions. 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

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

Thaniell's Experience

With many tabs open, at some point it will come down to a crawl and require a memory reset via about:memory (garbage collection etc) or a restart. Otherwise works well enough, but with each version there are more and more "features" that distract form the main purpose and that need to be dealt with (deactivated, removed from sight so the space is properly usable etc.) 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

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

Gunny's Experience

Firefox is more secure than other browsers. If it wasn't, then TOR would be using Chrome, wouldn't it? 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

Ray's Experience

I recently started using Firefox again after the beta release of FF 57 (Quantum). It's fast — faster than Chrome even. All the addons I use suprisingly already supports FF 57. The performance and addons were enough to convice me to switch back, but what really made me switch was Multi-Account Containers. It's a rather niche feature, but really neat. Instead of having lots of private/incognito windows open to sandbox web sessions/cookies, I can now do it on a per-tab basis. The design of this feature is intuitive and leaves no room for confusion — tabs are clearly labelled with colors, edit panel is straightforward, launching a new container tab is two clicks away. 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

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

Rick Gionfriddo's Experience

Firefox backdoor installed ad extensions for, what was probably the most ironic instance ever if you've actually watched it, the TV show "Mr. Robot" after being paid by USA Network. Also, they fund some shady, pseudo-political stuff for both left wing and right wing extreme/fringe ideologies, which is not only inappropriate for any entity associated with a non-profit of the nature of Mozilla, but also morally questionable. 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

Antivirus has False positives

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

Capuccino 's Experience

Redeeming itself after it's 57th Release Point - Known as Quantum, Firefox soars higher than any browser, and finally a sound rival to compete with Chrome's dominancy. 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

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

OptimisticAmatsuMikaboshi's Experience

Smooth operation, can build it to your liking 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

Terrible user interface

Maxim Stratan's Experience

My first love. After using Netscape, Firefox just blown my mind with it's resources and options. 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

Now forces install and use of snap

Only on Ubuntu See More

Daniel Lewan's Experience

Currently is best option for casual users that want FOSS browser 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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

DebonairBoreas's Experience

very good. tried brave but it's slow See More

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

Top Con

New icon looks ugly

DelightfulBulucChabtan's Experience

It's a great browser with a bunch of features, one really good thing is that it has a "default" theme that uses the colors from the system and looks really good on Linux distros with a dark theme like Linux Mint. See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Great library of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Major updates may break any installed add-ons

Gáhkko's Experience

Stable, feature rich, focused on compliance and privacy, lots of add-ons, open source. Mozilla made some bad design decisions with Firefox, and it fell out of grace with the public, which is a shame because this is still the best browser out there. 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

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

JollyProphasis's Experience

Slow, Bugged, Memory Leaks See More

Top Pro

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. 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

FunnyHothr's Experience

Great browser. 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

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

LearnedTempestas's Experience

My experience with Firefox has been excellent and I have encountered no other hiccups. I have used google, edge, oceanhero, and so far firefox has worked the best. 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

Maria Flowers's Experience

Seems to be reliable, fast, and safe. Firefox seems to care about its users. 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

deleteduser5's Experience

very smooth running on my xubuntu. See More

Top Pro

Really independent browser

It's not dependent on Google. See More

's Experience

Excellent browser, super fast and customizable. And, also, respects your privacy. ;) 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

Vaibhav Barthwal's Experience

Because this is lightweight and looks good. 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

JollyShu's Experience

CON started silent updating They changed the update-policy. You cannot choose any more to skip an update, on Linux at least all updates are mandatory. 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

Oz God's Experience

Nice Design to navigate, need more flat design .. and good firefox Sync, need a "restore mode" and "delete permission confirmation" and more options.. Otherwise I m firefox fan. 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

cosmo's Experience

Love it! Open source and privacy conscious! 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

SharpAdrestia's Experience

For my windows xp it is very slow. often crashes. many a times the book mark is lost. See More

Top Pro

Very secure

ImmaculateDazbog's Experience

New icon looks ugly. Other experiences are good but it's not as great as Vivaldi. 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

Faisal Hakim's Experience

open source backed in mind makes it good choice. 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

AssertivePoseidon's Experience

最后的独立内核浏览器。 See More

Top Pro

Installed by default on many Linux distributions

Many Linux distributions come preinstalled with Mozilla Firefox See More

ReliableBritomartis's Experience

I have been using Firefox most of my life and never felt disappointed using it. I have tried Google Chrome, Internet Explore and Brave. Brave came close, but it feels like a gimmick to me. I can see why people would like that. See More

Top Pro

Mobile

Firefox has a solid mobile app. See More

PreciseTanfana's Experience

Overall the most stable of the low resource browsers... (not a memory hog like some other popular browsers) 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

s1mple's Experience

High memory usage, quite contrary to what the developers claim. And it's slower meanwhile. See More

Top Pro

About:config

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

Alex's Experience

Simply the best. See More

Top Pro

UI

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

GenuinePtah's Experience

Very fast web browser, especially in comparison to other browsers like Chrome. User interface isn't like Chromium browsers so not quite used to it yet, but Mozilla cares about your privacy and your experience. Also, Google is gonna essentially kill most ad blockers soon, so thats another reason to switch to Firefox See More

AssertiveArges's Experience

firefox SUCKS!!!!!!!!! See More

ReliableAsclepius's Experience

Firefox is open source, It has all the features I need and its developer tools are great. Apart from that, It also performs good. See More

GloriousParthenope's Experience

I use firefox on linux and vivaldi on linux. But i prefer firefox. See More

HonorableHebat's Experience

Uses Search auto-completition and steals your web queries (Cliqz) Extreme leftist-politics, supported by Billionaire George Soros. Still slow after Quantum. Self-righteous "do goodies" who betray everything that Firefox once stood for. Stay away from this. See More

DecentBuarainech's Experience

Love it! See More

DreamerMorrigan's Experience

Never had any problems with it. See More

Ruth's Experience

Convenient browser, which I use for over 3 years now. It`s free, allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects and so on. Totally recommend it! See More

nerd's Experience

Simpler and faster than tor browser. I prefer it for general use. If you are in the country that monitors your web-activity , tor browser can be the best option for your desktop-browser. Anyway, it depends on your situation. See More

psiphi's Experience

It's an independent company and Firefox has been around for a long time. It's robust and fast. See More

CooperativeOrcus's Experience

simplicity and fast See More

DreamerPotrympus's Experience

THE BEST EVER See More

DignifiedInariOkami's Experience

Very good support modern standards. Safe browsing / Security-aware. Great community. See More

CreativeAura's Experience

Firefox is just amazing! See More

DashingAmphitrite's Experience

work like charm See More

NonchalantAsbolus's Experience

Fast stable and relaible while taking less ram See More

PopularMacaria's Experience

Hands down one of the best browsers out there, and one of the few not bowing down to the virtual chrome monopoly. Truly open-source and backed by a non-profit that puts privacy first. Honestly, I have no idea where some of these cons come from. It seems like the only reason people hate it is because of some pet peeve, or some deep grudge against Mozilla. See More

Pro Neon's Experience

Best See More

JanetGodwill's Experience

Free & opensource. Now implement native crypto wallet. See More

ThoroughLongmu's Experience

Just awsome See More

lecho9's Experience

the best See More

SplendidMenhit's Experience

just a good privac browser See More

SharpMinos's Experience

Worst browser ever See More

CredibleDogoda's Experience

Fuck Mozilla See More

MerryAergia's Experience

Great for dom investigation in the dev tools, the 3d functionality is very good for understanding the dome layout See More

OpinionatedDagon's Experience

The best for me, since 15 years. Google Chrome is not so bad, I hate Microsoft Edge. See More

TruthfulSosamshin's Experience

I switched to Mozilla Firefox from Chrome, and my experience with a web browser never been the same. Firefox is much more powerful than the other web browsers. It uses less CPU, less memory and it protect your privacy. As a developer, I can have great tools out of the box. I don't see much cons. See More

MerryHeka's Experience

Fast & furious See More

vctls's Experience

The main reason why I still prefer Firefox over anything else is the extension ecosystem. It's the only browser that supports extensions across all platforms including Android, and some of them are only found on Firefox. See More

ImaginativeChalcon's Experience

Excellent, I use it to do just about everything on the web, besides I like the security options on Firefox, and I can use about;config to even go more private, I use TOR, Nightly and the developer's version formally known as Aurora (they should leave that name). See More

ProductiveAnjea's Experience

Open source See More

FantasticPlutus's Experience

The web browser who want to make better internet See More

PracticalAbundantia's Experience

used to be the second best browser on the market, then Opera got killed so it advanced to the first place, unfortunately later it got the same treatment and now is equally useless as chrome See More

DiligentWatatsumi's Experience

Security and Addon white text black background !! See More

CalmLahmu's Experience

Shitty hardware acceleration support See More

Jayrani's Experience

awesome See More

ThoughtfulNiamh's Experience

fast / easy to use See More

ShojiVR's Experience

High Customization, built-in screenshot tools, tracker and cookies blocker, HTML5 Video Preload See More

It uses the Qt Web Engine from your local Qt installation which is usually not often updated. See More

Otter Browser

Top Con

External Rendering Engine

Top Pro

Under GNU GPL

lewis dowson's Experience

Really good! Had no problems with it See More

Specs

Based On:N/A

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

License:OpenSource (GNU GPL-3.0)

Anyone can contribute to the Otter Browser, solve common issues, bugs. See More

Top Con

No support for addons

Top Pro

Open source

KindheartedKayra's Experience

None of the websites would load and errors popped up saying it didn't support SSL See More

Top Con

Under GNU GPL

It is licensed under GPL which is less permissive than other opensource licenses like BSD or MIT. See More

Top Pro

Legacy Opera

Aims to recreate the best aspects of Opera 12.x. See More

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

Pale Moon

Top Con

Unsecure

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

Arby's Experience

"Website is cloudflared and he thinks most sites should be hostile towards tor" commented someone. Tor is US government funded. You're not hiding with Tor. The ONLY reason I'm leaving Pale Moon is because Google (a vaccine com. among other things) is crippling advancements and making browsers like PM useless for productivity. Alphabet wants to dominate... more than anything else. It will cripple advancements by anyone in order to do that. See More

Specs

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

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

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

SensiblePhilophrosyne's Experience

Wonderful, I'm Enjoying Pale Moon, but I wish it was a bit faster. See More

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

HumbleKingu's Experience

Fast yet lightweight See More

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

ExuberantAuseklis's Experience

I use FAR more tabs than most (often over 500 open tabs) and Pale Moon runs them all in one process. Chrome and Firefox now have separate processes for each tab, as far as I can tell, and with 500+ open, would eat up far beyond my system's 16GB. It's not perfect, but nothing else will do for a true tab addict! Also, I recommend Firemin to keep the RAM usage in check, for any browser. See More

Top Con

Uses Goanna

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

Top Pro

Support for existing web standards

CalmAkaManah's Experience

A great old browser for android. Only the clicking needs work. See More

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

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

Top Pro

Open source

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

PerceptivePolyphemus's Experience

I've tested pale moon on android. When i go to slant.co the see all button has issues. See More

Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

Top Pro

Customizable

PersonableYuqiang's Experience

Cluttered See More

Top Con

Android version has odd behavior

Clicking does not work. See More

Top Pro

Stable

VigorousMarzyana's Experience

Independent from Mozilla, XUL addons, and customization make this the best browser. See More

Top Con

Pale Moon's website is cloudflared

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

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

IntuitiveLoki's Experience

Just gets on with the job. No fuss or nags. 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

PhilosophicalIkaRoa's Experience

Use it as a backup browser. Dependable and quick. Seems to be getting regular updates and has useful add-ons. 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

IngeniousChemosh's Experience

I considered UGC & Firefox as other options and this browser came as a clear winner hands down. See More

Top Con

Incompetent developers

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

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

VigorousXmucane's Experience

Super fast and very privacy oriented. here's the mitigation guide to tweak it: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/palemoon.html See More

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

Matheus M.'s Experience

Bloat-free, telemetry-free, privacy-minded. Based on the thriving UXP codebase, which aims to preserve the foundational Mozilla technologies such as XUL, XPCOM and XBL that allows writing performant applications and extensions with web languages. Been a user for 3 months and I couldn't be more satisfied. See More

Top Pro

Very Independent

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

PopularMacaria's Experience

Pale Moon isn't a bad browser, but it is old, slow, and insecure. While it is good for those people that never got over the first time Firefox redid its UI, you probably shouldn't switch from your current browser. See More

Top Pro

Good community support

lecho9's Experience

it's just bad See More

Top Pro

Optimized for modern processors

StrongBorlung's Experience

Pale Moon is the last browser of true freedom See More

Top Pro

Legacy Firefox

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

It just looks like a very old and slow Firefox... See More

TirelessAhriman's Experience

If you like to use big security issues then you should try this browser. See More

Catmandom's Experience

I love how portable my user directory is and I get to keep using my own USER.js file. See More

KnowledgeableNapkiraly's Experience

best browser, much faster than chrome or firefox See More

CooperativeBathala's Experience

I used to use Firefox until I found Pale Moon, and now I will never go back See More

PrincipledKuninotokotachi's Experience

Installed as default browser on all 4 dell pcs. Speaking for myself this a great browser! Only one extension installed ad block latitude. Clean simple and fast. As far as security Malwarebytes Premium and Licensed Hitman Pro. No Av. Palemoon is better than the quantaum firefox for me. Vivaldi is my second browser. Too bad about firefox it lost it's own identity. Just another Chrome. Edge will be too soon. Not found of google chrome not installed on my pcs. Hope palemoon stays around if not then vivaldi is it. Chris Cummings USA RET. See More

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

GNU IceCat

Top Con

Too much bloat

Top Pro

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

samuelnihoul's Experience

Hard to install and get started with. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:OpenSource

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

LibreJS

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

TolerantVerminus's Experience

The best See More

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

Protects your freedom, certified free by the FSF

HumorousMontu's Experience

it is inferior to LibreWolf and there is no reason to use it unless you want something bloated See More

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

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

Showing up issues with voting on Slant - again, just like using an ancient version of Firefox. See More

Top Con

Can't install some Firefox themes/addons

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

Top Pro

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

Top Con

Very slow boot time

It takes 10+ seconds for the browser to load up 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

Dependent on Mozilla

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

Top Pro

SpyBlock

Blocks privacy trackers. See More

Top Con

Very slow boot time

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

Top Con

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

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

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Compatible with all Chrome extensions

Top Con

Not available on iOS/iPadOS

There is an Android version of Vivaldi, but no iOS/iPadOS version yet. iPhone and iPad users are out of luck for the time being. See More

DepressivePsychoTheHustler's Experience

Just recently I decided to go ahead and download Vivaldi and give it a shot, but not before doing some extensive research and reading up on all the different articles I was able to come across regardless if the article gave it a bad review or if it was a comparison article and it favored the other browser, I still read them to be able to make my final decision. As for my experience using Vivaldi, so far, it is nothing like what I read. I have not had no issues while browsing and I even tried out going into and browsing the other side with Vivaldi (used a VPN that has a connection TOR over VPN) and it worked fine and tried out a handful of .onion links that I have and they all loaded and opened up with no problem. For me the whole deal that it isn't 100% open source does not bother me and I didn't even take that into consideration for my final outcome. My final thoughts are, if you are considering Vivaldi, don't take my word for it, better yet, you should at least give it a try, and I don't mean a short try, but at least a good 7 day trial run and then determine if it is what you need and want from a browser. One other thing, keep in mind that not everyone's experiences are the same since you and I are not using the same exact PC or OS.. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

License:BSD+Proprietary

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 Con

Some non-optional telemetry

According to its privacy policy, Vivaldi sends an approximate location (country or major city), randomized ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution (to know what screen sizes to test on) and time since last message every 24 hours (to know amount of active users). See More

buak's Experience

I've been using the web since 1995 and have tried almost every browser out there, and most of the popular ones extensively. After using various forks of Chromium in the past few years, I have found Vivaldi the best of them all. It is especially good for powerusers. The Browser offers a plethora of features out-off-the-box, and is very customisable. It is constantly updated, and the developers seem to really listen what the community wants. These are the developers of the original Opera browser by the way. I can't recommend this enough. 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 Con

No Fingerprint Protection

Vivaldi doesn't include fingerprint randomization like Brave does by default or configured Firefox/ Librewolf. See More

IndependentAmathaunta's Experience

Excellent browser. only gripe is the time it takes to launch. 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 Con

Enabling "Hardware Accelerated Scrolling" can make scrolling jittery

cosmo's Experience

Absolutely proprietary! Vivaldi has no respect for your privacy or security. You're better off using another browser with extensions if you want to emulate the Vivaldi experience without compromising your digital safety. See More

Top Pro

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

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

Top Con

Slower than Chrome

mrrifat's Experience

Comfortable for slow and old pc. 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 Con

Same security vulnerabilities as Chrome

Vivaldi uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-vulnerabilities as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a vulnerability for Chrome will likely also exist in Vivaldi. See More

NeighborlyMalingee's Experience

i've tried firefox, chrome, IE 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 Con

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

Still uses some Google services (can be disabled)

TalentedWadjet's Experience

The company LISTENS to its users. Their slogan is something like "we're building a browser for our friends" and they really mean it. What they're building is smart, customizable, privacy-oriented and helpful. That's what a browser should be. 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

Can't disable all telemetry

Vivaldi needs some amount of knowledge about the amount of active users, for business deals. See More

16patsle's Experience

Vivaldi is an amazingly customizable browser, that stands out in the crowd by being both modern and feature rich at the same time. Enough features to keep power users happy, and yet simple enough to use that everyone should feel comfortable. And it's made by a great team. I have met the devs, and they are nice people. They do their best to listen, and want to support their users. Sure, they're a small team, with limited resources, but it's clear that they care about the users, which is also visible in all the community services Vivaldi offers to its users. Both a blog platform and free webmail, inspired by the old days of Opera, before Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner left that company and everything went downhill. 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 protect pinned tabs from changing to another URL

Clicking on a page link, then another, easy to wind up far from the original pinned tab site. There is no chrome addon or native vivaldi function to stop this. See More

ToughTriteia's Experience

I find Vivaldi very customisable and trust its privacy policy. It also complies with GDPR. It has its own Ad blockers 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

No automatic silent background updates, except on macOS

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. The box doesn't warn you that not updating the browser could expose you to security risks, which could be pretty bad for your average joe, who doesn't know computers that well. See More

CourageousUlanji's Experience

Best comfort and functionality paired with a slick design. 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 Con

Window size and resizing on Mac is broken

ImmaculateDazbog's Experience

Great! High accessibility and customizability. See More

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

No option to open saved tab stack as a 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

Evanaellio's Experience

Probably the greatest browser available today, it has many quality of life features seldom found in other browsers. The only downside I can think of is the lack of a mobile version, but it's already in development. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme out of the box

There's even an option to automatically transition from light to dark based on the time of day. See More

Top Con

No touch bar support

PrudentSarutahikoOkami's Experience

Vivaldi is Opera as it should have been See More

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

Partially proprietary

While Vivaldi is currently available gratis (without monetary charge), it is currently not fully libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications). It is therefore not considered free or open-source software. The C++ source code, for the Chromium backedn, however is open-source under a BSD license and can be downloaded and browsed from here. The UI code is not open-source, but consists of easily readable HTML, CSS & JS. Modifications can be shared on their forum's dedicated section. See More

ImmaculateHendursaga's Experience

Total customization and freedom!! 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

Freezes often

s1mple's Experience

Fast and highly customizable. See More

Top Pro

Analytical history

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

Top Con

Some users seem to believe the developers do not care for your privacy

PopularCarmanor's Experience

very fast compared to all the rest I have tried See More

Top Pro

Non-closable fixed tabs

A setting lets you prevent closing fixed tabs so you don't close anything important by accident. See More

Top Con

Feature creep

Eric Waters's Experience

I love Vivaldi. I'm currently using it as my backup browser (I recently switched from it to Firefox Quantum). Lots of customization options, fantastic keyboard shortcut support, built-in dark mode, and a great look right out of the box.I'm not big on tab stacking (I find it more annoying than useful, but then I tend to prune my tab list obsessively), but just about everything else is great!. See More

Top Pro

Fast and safe

It is so faster and safer. See More

Top Con

No built-in proxy

Unlike Opera Proxy (which leaks your IP address), Vivaldi doesn't have a proxy service out of the box. You'll need an extension or an external program, to use Vivaldi with a proxy server. See More

DaringHendursaga's Experience

Very personnalisable and user friendly, vivaldi is adaptative and everyone can use it. 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

RespectableHuitaca's Experience

Best chromium browser in term of support and features. I would heavily recommend it. See More

Top Pro

Saving sessions

It saves oversights many options and functions implemented in Vivaldi. E.g. see CON "No option to open saved tab stack as... tab stack!" See More

IndustriousGeryon's Experience

You lose your whole session in the blink of an eye, with no explanation. Window freezes, and when you re-open it, all your work is gone. See More

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

DynamicAlanGua's Experience

Great customizable UI See More

Top Pro

Usable fullscreen mode with address bar when needed

In comparison, on Chrome you will not see the address bar, only on ChromeOS when your mouse is on the top of the screen. See More

RespectfulAchilles's Experience

It's the best browser that I've ever used. Aside from the customizability, it adds more to the experience with each update. Currently, it's years ahead of every other browser. I use it on my phone as well and being able to sync it with my pc and phone saves a lot of hassle. 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

ThriftyUridimmu's Experience

it looks nice See More

Top Pro

Allows navigating to the next page without searching for the link

A feature called "fast forward" puts a dedicated button before the address bar. It takes you to the next page of a multi-page article, forum thread, or search results, without having to hunt for the link. See More

TranquilUkko's Experience

Simply the best web browser for now See More

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

PrudentHeracles's Experience

Vivaldi has lots of features and options. But they don't get in the way. Although aimed at "power-users", this browser is appropriate for all users. Whether you want a lot more from your browser, or just a little more: I recommend Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

GDPR compliant

Respects Privacy. See More

PersistentHuitztlampaehecatl's Experience

no sync See More

Top Pro

Updates via dialog box

Unlike most modern browsers (but like most browsers of yesteryear), Vivaldi gives you a dialog box when an new version comes out; it doesn't just update silently in the background. The dialog box tells you about the changes that have been made, and lets you chose when you want to update. See More

AmiableKhonvoum's Experience

The tab organization is great. Bookmarks are easy to organize & delete. Plus, the notes are one of the best features that I haven't seen so intuitively, usefully employed in another browser. I honestly don't use bookmarks any more because of them. See More

Top Pro

Portable version can be added on default apps

Most portable version cannot be added as default apps but Vivaldi offers that option and it comes with updater too. See More

WonderfulZacatzontli's Experience

Native mouse gestures, excellent tab stacking, a plethora of customization, and F2. See More

Top Pro

Single-key keyboard shortcuts (if you wish)

The optional feature for controling various functions (e.g. opening, closing and switching of tabs) by pressing just a single key rather than two turns out to be an extremely convenient extra. See More

FriendlyBeliMawr's Experience

Vivaldi is the most feature rich, customizable, browser in existence. You can set it up exactly as you like to best suit your browsing behavior. It's exceptional. See More

Top Pro

Easy UI zoom, i.e. adjusting the size of all user interface text

Relieve your eyes or save space on the screen – your choice! See More

PhilosophicalIkaRoa's Experience

My Regular browser now. Great experience. Easily configured to each users liking and has most useful features of any browser (built-in Notes, Calendar, email client, and most useful Web Panels where you can add any page for easy access) and allows some JS or CSS customising. Also has the best user community for discussions. See More

Top Pro

Shortcuts/nicknames for URLs

Just bookmark a page and you can henceforth open it by a shortname of your choosing. See More

StrongPuhaorangi's Experience

browser good See More

Top Pro

Allows for TOR hidden services (.Onion)

Only with a VPN that offers TOR connectivity. See More

DependableGuabancex's Experience

It's a really usefull web browser, totally configurable and Chrome extension's compatible. It's developed by part of the original team of Opera so it's getting some of the best features of the old Opera browser (til version 12) and a few more. The best option: grouping tabs. See More

Top Pro

Customizable UI Theme and colors

Vivaldi can change the colors across the browser and has the option to change the color automatically depending on the page. Also, page loading animations are available in the address bar. See More

CheerfulNemesis's Experience

Best in terms of customization an usability. See More

Top Pro

Side panel and status bar

Unlike most modern browsers (but like most browsers of yesteryear), Vivaldi has a status bar. But the status bar is optional, you can turn it off (in the settings) if you don't want it. Vivaldi also has a side-panel, which again, can be turned off. See More

ProfessionalNamarrkon's Experience

Very user friendly and unobtrusive, yet SO many options built-in. I can even alter the source-code of a website on the fly. See More

Vorayer's Experience

Vivaldi team pushes ahead leaving behind unfinished or omitted options. A lot of. I named the browser "Vivaldi 80%." What worse there's no chance to tell them that. Forum moderators keep guard up to censor all critical views of Vivaldi development. Cons are equally stupid. One can live without them. See More

JoyousDuberdicus's Experience

It is very faster and safer. It is better than all the browsers. See More

SpontaneousErato's Experience

Tons of features See More

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

Excellent browser - lots of 'tweaks' and shortcuts that work great if mapped to mouse gestures as well as keyboard. See More

LuckyPtah's Experience

Pages load fast, no crashes and no garbage wrapped with the browser. Just a great browser See More

ShojiVR's Experience

Chromium based with themes, detailed Status such as bytes and files loaded , Stackable tabs, webpanel, page capture , Image/animation toggle ,Filter Page ,Tab preview, auto sort bookmark, speed dial based on bookmark folder. etc See More

CalmLahmu's Experience

In this browser is collected all the best from Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome. See More

Jim S's Experience

Probably would be my favourite on Desktop. I like the fact that it always opens links in NEW tab, but not cross-platform is a no-no for me. See More

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

Falkon

Top Con

Now under the KDE umbrella

Top Pro

Developed by KDE

SpiritedNiamh's Experience

Very very fast ! Efficient. See More

Specs

Based On:QupZilla

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

License:OpenSource (GPLv3)

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

Top Con

Weak multimedia support

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Bookmark management not the strongest part

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

Top Pro

Free and Open Source

GPLv3 license. See More

Top Con

Linux-only

Top Con

Nobody uses it

Yandex seems to get their inspiration from Chrome and Safari making this an undoubtedly beautiful browser with its unique and good looks. See More

Yandex.Browser

Top Pro

Minimalistic and beautiful

Top Con

Proprietary, bad privacy

Proprietary software, Google-like integration features, telemetry cannot be disabled (See "Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?" by Douglas J. Leith). See More

SuccessfulKinichAhau's Experience

Great browser that I always return to. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

Default Search Engine:Yandex

License:Proprietary

Top Pro

Very lightweight and fast

Top Con

Proprietary

While Yandex Browser 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 therefore neither free nor open-source software. See More

Dan Armano's Experience

Fast and innovative browser which goes beyond Google Chrome in useful ways. It integrates with Yandex services which are available in English language and are very fast - I was surprised to discover some were better than Google's services. See More

Top Pro

Built on Chromium

Good, thus many other teams work on improving safety, not only Chromium developers. See More

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

Yandex 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 Yandex. See More

Catmandom's Experience

The browser comes from Russia. Please be careful. See More

Top Pro

Extensive security

Provides DNS Spoofing Protection. See More

Top Con

Linux version still in beta

Good for the GNU/Linux systems, Yandex is more stable. See More

Vorayer's Experience

Two years of using several services based on Yandex Browser. See More

Top Pro

Turbo mode

Similar to the feature in Opera by the same name, this sends pages to be compressed on Yandex servers before download, reducing load time on very slow connections at the expense of privacy. This feature also strips multimedia, Flash, and other large elements from pages. See More

Top Con

Just a Chrome fork

Like Opera, this is just a rebranded version of Google Chrome. See More

Ajay Kumar Rawani's Experience

Great Browser But Linux Version Is Still In Beta ! See More

Top Pro

Rapid development

Top Con

Russian agents will track you

Sends your browsing data to Russia. See More

Top Pro

Excellent manager for other Yandex services

Mail, Calendar, Disk, Collections (aka Pocket or Pinterest), Zen, News, Search, Maps, Images. See More

Top Pro

Yandex integration

Top Pro

Very useful built-in features

Has a well-designed startup page tableau, basic (but advanced in comparison to other browsers) pop-up media viewer, a click tab to go up feature, and bookmark and open tabs sync option (requires a Yandex account) . See More

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

Brave

Top Pro

Free/libre software

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

InventiveAhuraMazda's Experience

Good browser but the cache system sucks bad. I can visit the same website 10x and still have to cntrl+F5 to get the freshest posts even after emptying cache/history and closing and re-opening. UGH...fix this please!!! See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

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

Kaiii's Experience

Simple and privacy friendly. However it has it's own flaws. 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

Download package is very large considering it as a browser

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

CuriousArebati's Experience

Very dependent on Google 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

Quite intrusive advertisements, especially on Windows

Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only. See More

PracticalUsinsh's Experience

This is the best browser out there. I've been using it for a few months now and no complaints at all! 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

Useless built-in 'ad blocker'

Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad! See More

cosmo's Experience

Great for people who want a more secure, more private alternative to Chromium. 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

NeighborlyYonggungChasa's Experience

Super fast See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

Private Window with Tor hides your IP address from the sites you visit. See More

Top Con

Doesn't remove search engine ads

Kobold's Experience

It's really different, that is true. However, in this case, I would say that is a good thing. 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

Uses much RAM

1 tab, 400+ RAM, also it depends on what website you're on. See More

PatientPilnitis's Experience

Super fast, and BLOCKS ADS! See More

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. 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

ResoluteLabbu's Experience

i like the brave brouser but when i try to do classes on it .IT always have issues like chromes See More

Top Pro

Sync is now available

Option to synchronize data between devices using peer-to-peer connections. No sign-in required, only a sync code. See More

Top Con

Sync issues

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

FunnyAbhartach's Experience

nice 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

A browser for NFT-ers(?)

There would be less of a problem with using Web3 solutions if they weren't sometimes looking like an art for art's sake, a jerkcircle shoving down it's own topic down the users' throat. Replacing the Web 2.0 with another commercial solution is bound to end up as a reinvention of the wheel, where even more commercialization and direct monetization will push digital exclusion. Non-profit open source community has achieved great things while so far NFTs and cryptos are, not without a reason, ridiculed. See More

DependableAirmid's Experience

Its good i like the adblocking. 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 Con

Poor Customer Support

Only customer support available in Brave community. Mods usually does not help. See More

HilariousAnu's Experience

BRAVE is an AD company. They do not care about your privacy. They are hungry for money. See More

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Top Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension though. See More

Gunny's Experience

Brave is based on Chrome... Chrome is Google. I don't use any Google services. My phone and computer are both Linux. Google just has too much power to manipulate your opinion and views. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform Web Browser

Brave is available on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS See More

Top Con

Cache dump

Doesn't clear cache well, shows same page even after emptying it until you ctrl+F5 to get fresh page every time you visit the page(s). See More

ReliableIntercidona's Experience

Security first! Lightning fast See More

Top Con

Appearance

No options to customize apperance, and make the bookmarks appear on the home page, for instance. See More

TruthfulNinmena's Experience

score 97 · Accepted Answer

SSuite NetSurfer Browser

Top Pro

Now also includes a built-in screen recorder

Contains a built-in screen, webcam, and microphone recorder. See More

Top Con

Only available for Windows

DepressivePsychoTheHustler's Experience

Ever since I first installed it and started using it has become my go to browser a majority of the time since I am still getting very accustomed to this new browser for me little by little. I am glad that I went for this choice when I was considering trying out Vivaldi browser. As for the extensions, that for me isn't a big deal nor a deal breaker. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium with proprietary GUI

Default Search Engine:Groot

License:Freeware