What are the most secure desktop web browsers?

Based On:Chromium with proprietary GUI

License:Freeware

Default Search Engine:Groot

Plays local media files including hot-links to videos online too. See More

Top Pro

Has a great looking media player

Top Pro

Includes many useful built-in productivity web apps

Has many built-in productivity web apps that are completely cloudless in origin for enhanced online security. See More

Top Pro

Now also includes a built-in screen recorder

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

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

score 13 · Answer 2

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Top Pro

Fast

Top Con

Synchronization between PC and phone is weak

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:Proprietary

Default Search Engine:Bing

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

Top Pro

Great UI

Top Con

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

Top Con

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

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

Top Con

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

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

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

score 91 · Answer 3

Tor Browser

Top Con

Extremely slow

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

ProudZaoJun's Experience

Tor is based on Firefox which is not secure. There is a difference between security and privacy. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Accessing content on the dark web is illegal. See More

Top Con

Potentially illegal

Top Pro

Access hidden .onion sites

nooblinux's Experience

If you understand how to use it and especially how to not use it can anonymise you See More

Top Con

Must adapt new browsing habits

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

Top Pro

Tor sets the standard for safe and private browsing

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

AwareNuwa's Experience

Tor Browser ruined my life and exposed me to bad things. See More

Top Con

Does not guarantee perfect anonymity unlike what most users would expect

Does not guarantee perfect anonymity unlike what most users would expect. See More

Top Pro

Portable

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

LoveableSaturn's Experience

Sloowwwwwwq See More

Top Con

You will hang on every recaptcha

You will stuck on Recaptcha in the browser because the sites think you are a robot. Which can be very annoying because the images mostly will fade out very slow when you click them or you have to make 8 general puzzles at a row and then it says ''Please try again''. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

CourageousRohe's Experience

Privacy and Security are not the same. Firefox is not secure at all. See More

Top Con

Not made as your daily browser

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

Top Pro

Relatively fast

AwesomestGunAna's Experience

Tor's security is weak compared to Google Chrome. See More

Top Con

Lag lag lag, freze freze freze

This needs to do something about it. 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

JoyfulLadon's Experience

I have used it for 10+ years off and on. If used with a quality VPN, It's about as private as you can get for a standard user. It's been very, very easy to use for awhile now. I used to use the advanced one 7+ years ago and you had to go through numerous steps to make it more private. I would just use it every 6 months just so I didn't forget the steps. For brand new users, be aware it is noticeably slower than a standard browser experience and there is no way around that since it hops around 3 times before it reaches you, more if you also use a VPN. I highly recommend for regular website viewing. It's been years since I've used an actual .onion address, the true dark web but when I did, wow was it slow. But cool that the technology exists. See More

Top Con

Tor is very outdated on Firefox code

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

Top Pro

NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default

HonorableBirrahgnooloo's Experience

TOR rocks See More

Top Con

Weak sandboxing

Firefox's sandboxing is inferior to Chrome's and it does not contain site isolation. 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

Top Pro

Based on Firefox

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

Top Con

Dependent on Mozilla

Since it uses gecko. See More

Top Pro

Legal

As long as your not using it for illegal purposes, it's 100% legal. See More

Top Con

Based on Firefox and not Chrome

Firefox is much less secure than Chrome. Mozilla is years behind Google in terms of adding security features. 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

Open Source

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

Also this includes the counter con = pro 'no google safebrowsing' This is actual telemetry disabled here. See More

score 37 · Answer 4

Ungoogled Chromium

Top Con

Difficult to install

Top Pro

No telemetry

ProudZaoJun's Experience

Chromium is more secure than Firefox because it has an actual sandbox with site isolation. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Blink V8 Turbo

License:OpenSource

Based On:Chromium

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Top Con

Dependent on Google

Does not free you from big corpo. See More

Top Pro

All of the security benefits of the chromium / chrome browser project

And more in config settings without giving up the privacy of each and every one of its users. See More

AwesomestGunAna's Experience

Ungoogled Chromium is not secure because it's binaries are not reproducible and it is not updated like Google Chrome. It also disables Google Safebrowsing, which protects users from dangerous websites. See More

Top Con

Poor distribution

Binaries are only available for certain distributions and may not always be updated (Windows may be on version 50 while Arch on version 84). See More

Top Pro

Amazing UI

Very clean and slick UI. See More

Top Con

Chrome clone

Ungoogled Chromium is a clone of Chrome, and since clone browsers are behind in updates giving a huge security risk, browsers like Tuga browser and Ungoogled Chromium should be avoided. See More

Top Pro

Free Software

100% Free and Open Source. See More

Top Con

Still contains telementery

Default home page is telementery, and most websites are enabled by google. See More

Top Pro

Sandboxing

It's sandboxing is the same as Chromium and by far superior to Firefox. See More

Top Con

Requires use of snap

Top Con

Mostly just a customized Chromium build

Not much new here as many of chromiums features can be enabled or turned off with build flags. It is not meant to be bells and whistles. The product is meant to be the 'secure' part of the chromium / google project. Without all of it's spyware. And they succeed in this mission, it's an incredible amount of work to be able to do this with such an open-source project went google-source (aka android). and the devs do pull it off. See More

Top Con

Binaries aren't reproducible

Meaning they can't be verified. See More

Top Con

Lags behind Chrome in security updates

Because it is a fork of Chrome, it will always be slow to update, but there are up to date repositories for most Linux distros, just not Windows. See More

Top Con

Can be viewed as a virus

Antivirus systems will think that ''Ungoogled Chromium'' is a virus. See More

Top Con

No Google safebrowsing

Top Con

Uses a fake browser engine

although this has one of toughest security and privacy but it is not supported for windows and terrible support and its basic foundation is not updated and is out of date See More

score 19 · Answer 5

Safari

Top Pro

Extremely fast

Top Con

The security is lacking, if not just incompetent

StrongEtugenEke's Experience

Specs

Browser Engine:WebKit

License:Proprietary

Based On:N/A

Default Search Engine:Google

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

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Con

Poor support for new web technologies

MerryXbalanque's Experience

It's a sluggishly bad browser that lacks in the security department. See More

Top Pro

Made by Apple

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

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

Top Pro

Sleek design

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

Top Con

Does NOT block Ads

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

Top Pro

Safari uses Webkit, a great open source web engine

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

Top Con

OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5. See More

Top Pro

iCloud syncing

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

Top Con

Even on OSX not the best experience

Video controls are bad especially on YouTube. Only few browser extensions. See More

Top Pro

Works elegantly in OSX

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

Top Con

Made by Apple

Top Pro

Proprietary

Development once died for months and therefore they cannot be trusted to complete a long term project. See More

score 44 · Answer 6

LibreWolf

Top Con

Unreliable

Top Pro

Carefully hardened browser

Many privacy preferences enabled by default. See More

HumorousMontu's Experience

It is more secure than Firefox because it doesn't have spyware by default blocks DRM and WebRTC, includes uBlock Origin by default, and is up-to-date unlike all other browser forks. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:Open Source (Mozilla Public License Version 2.0)

Based On:Firefox

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

If the Firefox is bloated then why the 2 omni.ja files from LW install path is double in size reported to Firefox... On first run make locked uncontrollable connections to some Amazon domains, to claoudflare and Mozilla All these connections are direct socket connections... Permanent connecting to Amazon and multicast domains in the background... They don't care about privacy and use this word only for advertising proposes...Same like Brave and Vivaldi... See More

Top Con

Suspicious components dimensions and forced connections

Top Pro

Sensible defalults with a clean ui/menus

Top Con

Will always be slow to update

Since it is based on Firefox, it will have slow updates. See More

Top Pro

Perfect for those who want no force fed snap

Where FF no forces snap, Librewolf can still be had with a ppa and apt on your terms. See More

Top Con

Based on Firefox

LibreWolf is based off Firefox, which is not secure at all. See More

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

score 49 · Answer 7

Chromium

Top Pro

Latest Blink

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

GraciousBeaivi's Experience

does require less ram than chrome and is more safe so it is a good alternative for chrome if you want to replace chrome chromium is a good choice See More

Specs

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

License:Opensource (BSD)

Based On:N/A

Top Pro

Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing

Top Con

Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware

ResponsiveAnnona's Experience

Best sandboxing and bleeding edge software with minimal privacy issues See More

Top Pro

Uses Control Flow Integrity

Top Con

No official builds

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

ProudZaoJun's Experience

Easily the most secure browser. No other browser comes close. 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

Can be dangerous / only available as Source

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

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

Top Con

Lacks support for certain common media formats

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

Top Pro

Completely Open Source

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

Top 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 Pro

PartitionAlloc

A hardened memory allocator for enhanced security See More

Top Pro

Bare

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

Top Pro

Gets constant updates

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

Top Pro

BSD license

You can do almost anything with the code. See More

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

Unlike Chrome it does come without any Google account requirement. See More

Top Pro

Backed by Google

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

Top Pro

Access to Chrome's extensions

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

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

score 96 · Answer 8

Brave

Top Con

Hypocritical/deceptive stance on privacy and advertisement

Top Pro

Safety and privacy well taken care of

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

DeterminedAchelois's Experience

this is good See More

Specs

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

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Based On:Chromium core

Top Con

Brave is an Ad company

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

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

mostafa's Experience

I can say that I had an excellent experience and the speed and amount of memory consumption are better than Google Chrome See More

Top Con

Bloatware Cryptocoin BAT extension

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

AssertiveMimir's Experience

For me brave is the best. Fast, cares about cybersecurity and does the browsing part. See More

Top Con

Fake privacy - ultra bloated with high level of "verbose" spyware, adware and ferocious telemetry

If you want to see with your own eyes to believe you must extract the installer, after that look for pak file and extract them to folders after that view the files inside that folders... See More

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. See More

VersatileAbundantia's Experience

its amazingly private See More

Top Con

Doesn't remove search engine ads

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

IntuitiveUmay's Experience

One thing I would say is that since it incorporates the #1 safe and secure TOR Browser in it's private searches, it is the best browser to use. 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

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Ian James's Experience

Very fast web browser that really does cut down on ads. I find it to be faster than Chrome, and feel safer using it. Great browser! See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

CourageousXamanEk's Experience

Not bad 6 of 10 * See More

Top Con

Adds its own referall codes to your links

See this story. See More

Top Pro

Blocks cross-site trackers, cookies and fingerprinting

JoyfulLadon's Experience

I use Brave standard, Beta and Dev build on my Win10 laptop and have been using it more and more lately. I really like that it has Chrome Webstore extension support. Also use it on my iPhone, I like that it has FaceID option. Will make an easier transition away from Chrome as it has been using way too many of my laptops 12gb RAM resources, granted use many browsers at once and other apps. Chrome is usually the one where my HD and CPU is being used A Lot. Unlike Chrome I can run all Brave browsers at the same time and if I close one the other one or ones keep on running and don't all close like Chrome. Just tried out the Brave TOR option tonight really quick and it seemed to work ok, usually use Tor browser on my laptop for this. 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

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

OrganizedIxtab's Experience

I was very well pleased with Brave browser. A new, fresh browsing experience. Love the home page graphics. Clean, stylish. I regret reading a negative comment from a former user and let that make me paranoid enough to uninstall. Lesson learned. Research instead of blindly letting negative views persuade my decisions. Will be reinstalling very soon! See More

Top Con

Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers

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

Top Pro

Built-in torrent client

Top Con

Sync issues

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

Top Pro

Simple setup and good-looking browser all-around

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

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

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. And when you install Brave, it just installs - it doesn't give you any options on how to install it. 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

Promotes search engines that track users such as Bing and Google

Google Search is the first search engine on the list. See More

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Top Con

Uses much RAM

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

The iPhone version has some odd behavior

On reopening Brave often returns to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage that was previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a configuration issue though. See More

Top Pro

Sync is now available

The CON from below (no sync) is now added. [Sync temporarily disabled for desktop.] See More

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Con

Download package is very large considering it as a browser

Top Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension. See More

Top Con

Appearance

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

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

score 29 · Answer 9

GNU IceCat

Top Con

Requires too much unnecessary configuration to use

Top Pro

Extra security and privacy features

Specs

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:OpenSource

Top Con

Too much bloat

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

Top Pro

Protects your freedom, certified free by the FSF

Top Con

Can't install some Firefox themes/addons

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

Top Pro

LibreJS

Blocks unwanted JS code. See More

Top Con

Mainly just an old Firefox

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

Top Pro

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

Top Con

Includes LibreJS by default with no way to remove it

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Very slow boot time

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

Top Pro

SpyBlock

Blocks privacy trackers. See More

Top Con

Not up to date

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

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

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

score 27 · Answer 10

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Tabs can be stacked

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

LuckyJuksakka's Experience

I have tried to many browsers, this definitely is the best. The panel is just something i can not live without anymore. It have basically everything the other browsers have but many, many more, with an excellent performance. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

License:BSD+Proprietary

Based On:Chromium

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 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

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

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

Comes with many ads

After installation the first thing you have to do is to remove all the default bookmarks and quickdial links which is really annoying. There is more minor stuff like the default search provider or your start page things that could be easily managed with a wizard at the first startup. 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

Proprietary

Nobody can analyze the code, could send everything to their servers. See More

Top Pro

Fast and safe

It is so faster and safer. See More

Top Con

Comes with default bookmarks

By default: Vivaldi has a number of websites (such as Amazon) already bookmarked. This could be seen as a pro or a con. However, these default bookmarks can be deleted, same as any other bookmark. 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

Still uses some Google services (can be disabled)

Top Pro

Analytical history

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

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

Feature creep

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

Top Con

No Fingerprint Protection

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

Slower than Chrome

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

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

Top Pro

Tab bar position can be changed

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

Top Con

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

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

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

Top Con

Still dependent on Chromium project

Now-a-days, most of the browsers are based on the Chromium project for maximum support and updation. See More

Top Pro

GDPR compliant

Respects privacy. See More

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

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

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

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

Not available on your Phone/Tablet

Vivaldi is currently only available for desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac), with only a beta version available on Android. No iOS support (yet). 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

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

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

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

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 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 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

PC Cross-platform

Vivaldi is available on Windows, Linux and OSX. See More

Top Pro

Cross browser extensions with Opera and Chrome, Firefox web-ext's too

All Vivaldi, Opera and Chrome users can get extensions from all extension/addon sites, especially from Opera Addons and Chrome Store. 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 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

Top Pro

VPN is available by extension- also routing through Tor network

VPN and Tor encryption is possible through extensions. Tor is a free choice if one doesn't want to subscribe to a VPN service. See More

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

score 55 · Answer 11

Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

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

GregariousGaia's Experience

I it's best secure and lightly complicated to use shortcuts See More

Specs

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

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

Default Search Engine:Google

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

Top Pro

Really independent browser

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

Which is pretty ironic for a browser that's focused on "privacy". Fortunately you can change this in the Firefox Settings. See More

OrganizedIxtab's Experience

Firefox is fast. I have faith in it's security. Many add-ons. Good all around top notch 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

StrongBochica's Experience

Its just that good and secure. See More

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. 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

MerryXbalanque's Experience

Firefox used to be my default browser, but over the years mozilla has broken my trust. Not only by slowing down my browsing experience, ads built in, bad tracker blocking, etc. See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Great library of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Removes addons based on political beliefs

Mozilla has started banning addons like gab because of their political leaning. See More

niingu's Experience

The best! 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

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

DignifiedProteus's Experience

Worst browser ever. It broke my computer three times. 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

Devtools for WebExtensions are buggy

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

Supporting Gecko makes no sense

Since Blink is available under a more open and permissive license. 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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Con

Abandoned XUL for WebExtensions

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

Top Con

Terrible user interface

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

Mozilla once partnered with George Soros to fight misinformation

Top Pro

Mobile

Firefox has a solid mobile app. See More

Top Con

Uses WebRTC

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

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

High performance

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

Top Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

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

High RAM usage

It used (for me) 500MB RAM at the startpage. And there is no option to add a limit for the RAM usage. 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

Downloader now includes a virus checker

All downloads in Firefox will now be scanned for viruses and there are a lot of false positives. This just shows that Mozilla thinks that all of their users are idiots. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme

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

Top Con

Multi profile are not user friendly

Multi profile require command line -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

Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. 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

Strong developer tool

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

Lower memory fingerprint than competitors

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

Top Con

Pocket integration

Top Pro

HTML5 Video Preload

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

Top Con

Open source

Firefox is open source which means it can be vulnerable to security issues. Most users recommend you use a proprietary browser such as Google Chrome. 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

Good font rasterizing

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

Strong HTML5 feature support

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Pro

Easy screenshots without extensions

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

Top Pro

WebRender

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

Top Pro

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

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

Top Pro

Fast bookmark management

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

Top Pro

Firefox experiments

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

Top Pro

Integration with Pocket

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

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

score 20 · Answer 12

Pale Moon

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

Top Pro

Secure

Pale Moon is more secure than Firefox because it doesn't contain DRM, WebRTC, or a built-in PDF reader, and was not affected by most Firefox vulnerabilities. See More

ConvivialDiyanMasalanta's Experience

security nightmare See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

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

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

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

ProudZaoJun's Experience

This browser is a security risk and should be treated as malware. See More

Top Con

Unsecure

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

Top Pro

Support for GTK themes

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

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

Top Pro

Customizable

Top Con

Pale Moon's website is cloudflared

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

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

Supports complete themes

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

Top Con

Uses Goanna

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

Top Pro

Optimized for modern processors

Top Con

Uses Legacy Addons

Legacy Addons (XUL) was removed from Firefox because it was a massive security risk. WebExtensions are much more secure. See More

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Incompetent developers

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Top Con

Lags behind Firefox in security updates

Since Pale Moon is based off Firefox, it will be always be behind Firefox, which is years behind Google. See More

Top Pro

Support for existing web standards

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

Though it used to support Firefox extensions, it no longer does. The best supported ad-blocking extension, uBlock Origin, is mediocre at best, falling short of AdBlock Plus. See More

Top Pro

Good community support

Top Con

WebAssembly enabled by default

Top Pro

Stable

Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

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

Top Pro

Open source

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

Top Pro

Independent from Google and Mozilla

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

Top 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

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

score 26 · Answer 13

Google Chrome

Top Pro

Great built-in developer tools

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

AmiableHarpocrates's Experience

Privacy See More

Specs

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

License:Proprietary

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

Default Search Engine:Google

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

Top Pro

Uses Blink

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

StrongEtugenEke's Experience

sells and attacks our personal data relentlessly means terrible privacy in short if you are a chrome user your ip can be sent ot others and even your device can be hacked so avoid chrome 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

Google

It's Made by Google See More

AwareNuwa's Experience

I've used this browser since 2009 and I'm never going back to Firefox. This browser is the best! See More

Top Pro

Multiple account login

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

Top Con

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

You can't change the look and other things. Like you can't add a own background like you can in Vivaldi or Opera. Firefox haves also tracker prevention. And Google Chrome doesn't. See More

DignifiedProteus's Experience

Google Chrome is the fastest and most minimalist browser. I like how Google protects my device from dangerous sites and trackers. See More

Top Pro

Engine is open-source

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

Top Con

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

HumbleQuetzalcoatl's Experience

It was the best browser I ever used. It's much faster and more secure than that bloated Firefox that collects your data and sells it. See More

Top Pro

Proprietary

Chrome is proprietary which means that it is easier to use and more user-friendly. See More

Top Con

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

ThoroughThaleia's Experience

Chrome provides a very secure browsing experience and has the best support. Google is the best. See More

Top Pro

Plenty of extensions

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

Top Con

Increasingly slow

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

Top Pro

Simple user interface

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

Top Con

Online tracking by default

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

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

Bad quality control on extensions

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

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

Chrome is faster than Firefox

If your goal is speed then you prefer can use Chrome instead of Firefox because Chrome is faster. (but it also matters at your internet speed and desktop resources) See More

Top Con

Bad for battery life

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

Top Pro

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

Privacy

Top Pro

Automatically updates

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

Top Con

No mobile extensions

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

Top Pro

Sandboxed tabs

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

Top Con

No menu bar (except on Mac)

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

Top Pro

Can translate text directly

Google Chrome uses a built-in Translation service named Google Translate so you can read websites in your language. See More

Top Con

No reader view

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

Top Pro

Customizable by user

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

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

Basic

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

Top Pro

Installs extensions without requiring a restart

You don't need to restart when installing extensions. See More

Top Con

American agents may track you

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

Made by the Americans

Top Pro

Data collection

Chrome uses online services to collect users' data and improve their browser experience. 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 Pro

Excellent HTML 5 feature support

As of February 2015, Chrome scores highest of all browsers for HTML5 compatibility. See More

Top Pro

Plays more media formats than any open source browser

Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats. See More

Top Pro

It was cool

Not for common use. See More

score 10 · Answer 14

Dooble

Top Con

Experimental

Specs

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

License:OpenSource

Based On:N/A

score 18 · Answer 15

Iridium Browser

Top Con

Slow updates

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

Top Pro

BSD license

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

Specs

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

License:OpenSource (BSD)

Based On:Chromium

Top Con

Buggy

Top Pro

Privacy enhancements over Chromium

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

Top Con

Extensions MUST be updated manually

Top Pro

Lots of extensions available

Due to access to the Chrome Web store. See More

Top Con

Google Safebrowsing enabled by default

Top Pro

Extensions are updated manually

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

Top Con

Definitive unique browsing-fingerprint

Top Pro

Security improvements over Chromium

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

Top Con

No menu bar

like chromium iridium has only a menu bar in operating systems that use a global menu bar. See More

Top Pro

Fast

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

Disabled features

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

Top Pro

Based on Google Chrome

Supports all the modern web features. See More

Top Pro

Simple installation

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

Top Pro

Based on Chromium

Supports all the modern web features See More