What are the best web browsers for UNIX-like systems?

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

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

Free and Open Source

Top Con

Must adapt new browsing habits

Top Pro

Relatively fast

Top Con

Not made as your daily browser

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

You will hang on every recaptcha

Top Pro

Access hidden .onion sites

Top Con

Does not guarantee perfect anonymity unlike what most users would expect

Just like security versus virus game... Anonymity versus tracking game is head to head. See More

Top Pro

Uses the Tor network

Top Con

Dependant on Mozilla

Since it uses gecko. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Pro

NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default

Top Pro

The only browser package which includes a gateway build in into TOR a network where you can actually browse the web with completly anonymous or at least to whatever you browse on it.

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 Pro

Portable

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

Top Pro

Built-in socks5 proxy

Top Pro

Safe

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

Top Pro

Based on Firefox

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

Top Pro

Open source

Open source builds trust on using the program 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

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

score 87 · Answer 2

GNU IceCat

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Too much bloat

ResponsibleComus's Experience

It's still maintained, get it from Guix . It's also in the Fedora Repo See More

Specs

License:OpenSource

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

Top Pro

No spyware

Top Con

Dependent on Mozilla

Top Pro

Https-Everywhere by default

Top Con

Not up to date

It's still maintained through Guix or Fedora. See More

Top Pro

Protects your freedom, certified free by the FSF

Top Con

Very slow boot time

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

Top Pro

Made by idealists

It is part of the GNU Project. See More

Top Con

Mainly just an old Firefox

It's based on Firefox ESR. See More

Top Pro

Extra security and privacy features

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

SpyBlock

Blocks privacy trackers. See More

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

Is not spyware like Chrome or Firefox. See More

score 163 · Answer 3

Pale Moon

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

SkyFire's Experience

Pale moon is a great browser, it's based on old firefox and it aims to be very light. but it's not as secure as new firefox versions so i reccomend it if you are going only to trusted sites and you are not use online banking See More

Specs

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

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

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

Top Con

Missing features

LivelyEopsin's Experience

Palemoon is a big security risk on every pc. See More

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Needs GTK+ v2

No one uses it anymore. See More

SpiritedMamaQuilla's Experience

Quick and Lean also supports quite a few useful Firefox extensions See More

Top Pro

Independent from Google and Mozilla

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

Top Con

Unsecure

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

Top Pro

Good community support

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

Open source

Top Con

Older engine version with worse security

Top Pro

Stable

Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

Top Pro

Support for existing web standards

Top Con

No Widevine DRM support

You can't use it for streaming sites. 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

No WebRTC

Top Pro

No WebRTC

It does not support WebRTC, meaning it can't leak IP addresses. See More

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

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

Top Pro

Very Independent

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

Top Con

Pale Moon's website is Cloudflared

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Top Con

Needs GTK

It uses the GTK Widget toolkit and needs it dependencies which needs cairo, freetype, pango and a few more gnome based dependencies which might be a bit of an overkill for a lightweight system. See More

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

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

Customizable

Top Con

Incompetent developers

Top Pro

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

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

Top Pro

Very independent

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

Top Pro

Optimized for modern processors

Top Pro

Support for GTK themes

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

When using a browser, with all of "dangers" lurking out there, it is important and vital to keep a browser up to date. Firefox, the browser that LibreFox is based on, is for some Linux users available if they also have snap installed (Canonical flavours). Not only does snap deteriorate the browsing experience, but with no snap the danger is there that the Firefox is out of date. Next to the "privacy hardening profile" that Librewolf has, it allows updating with a ppa, thus being always at the highest safety level. Not a "lack" of Firefox, but a practicality solved by Librewolf: still Firefox, but convenient and hardened. See More

score 115 · Answer 4

LibreWolf

Top Pro

Offers ppa

Top Con

Doesn't offer anything new

It just removes Firefox bloatware and annoyances, something you can already do in Firefox with more precision and a way to undo it. See More

Specs

License:MPL - 2.0

Based On:Firefox

Many privacy preferences enabled by default. See More

Top Pro

Carefully hardened browser

Top Con

Dependent on Mozilla

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

Top Pro

Still Firefox, but no telemetry and Google

Although Firefox is a good browser, it has some significant privacy concerns. When installed as default, it sends considerable amounts to e.g. Mozilla, Google and its partner abut you. It is of course possible to adapt this if you dive into the settings and profiles (e.g. prefs.js, user.js). However, if you can't do this or don't want, Librewolf is an option: it offers the a very good browser with those privacy profiles already set for you, like coming with uBlock Origin and DDG as search engine preinstalled. See More

With ads removed, browsing becomes a much faster affair. See More

score 223 · Answer 5

Brave

Top Pro

It's fast

Top Con

Hypocritical/deceptive stance on privacy and advertisement

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

Givol Robinson's Experience

the lightest and the fastest browser I ever used. See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

This feature ensures an ad-less web experience, while also having a performance improvement in loading websites up to 4 times faster. See More

Based On:Chromium core

Top Pro

Built in Adblock

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 most other web browsers. See More

Selcan Hijmans's Experience

I love it because it is fast and one can get rid of YouTube ads forever! See More

Top Pro

Free/libre software

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

Top Con

Uses Blink

Brave uses Blink which is largely used by other web browsers and a big target for hackers. However, techniques as sandboxing, and frequent updates make it very secure compared to other rendering engines. See More

TrustworthyAchuhucanac's Experience

fast and plays videos without showing any ads. Internet surfing was never that much smooth without Brave. See More

Top Pro

Control over ads

Brave also allows you to control which ads you see on webpages. See More

Top Con

Brave is an Ad company

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

Maria Neilson's Experience

Brave Browser stands out for its focus on privacy and speed. Its built-in ad blockers and tracker preventions not only make browsing faster but also safeguard user data, making it a compelling choice for the security-conscious. See More

Top Pro

Safety and privacy well taken care of

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

Top Con

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

FlexibleChrysothemis's Experience

This is the fastest that I found, cause the add blocking I though See More

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Top Con

Uses much RAM

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

SuaveLluddLlawEraint's Experience

Very fast, with adblock and unlike Ungoogled Chromium does not allow video ads on Youtube.com . See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

You can "Open a private tab with Tor" for enhanced anonymity. This comes in handy to protect you while using public wifi. See More

Top Con

Acceptable ADs

It let some ADs pass. See More

ExuberantForseti's Experience

It is a modern and simultaneously private browser something that you can't find easily these days See More

Top Pro

Redirect ad revenue to webpages who offer real content

With Brave you can redirect your earnings back to pages that offer the content you like. See More

Top Con

Not user-customizable

Brave it's not user-customizable, you can't enter to the "millimetric configurations" as in Firefox when the user enters to about:config configurations, this causes a lack of trust in advanced users, because someone advanced will also tweak the browser from there. The icons in the tool/address bar aren't customizable, the user can't remove/replace/change order of the icons that are there by default like in Firefox. See More

ConscientiousFodbgen's Experience

Faster than the rest See More

Top Pro

Faster an more secure than Google Chrome

Brave consistently beats Chrome in security and speed, might have to do with less tracking being run in the background. 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

GutsyLieaibolmmai's Experience

Sleek, fast, earn $$$ while browsing. 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

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

DecisiveHebat's Experience

no opiton to stop automatic updates. When it wants to update - forces to reboot pc. it means idea to keep PC in sleep mode shuttered... the worst browser ever from 5 i had so far See More

Top Pro

Also has a port for Android

Mobile users get the love, and sync is supported, though still only device to device. See More

Top Con

Doesn't remove search engine ads

David Eltz's Experience

All the speed of Blink-based browsers (like Chrome), plus built-in adblock and privacy controls. See More

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

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

Top Con

Requires unprivileged user name space containers in Linux for sandboxing

No other browser requires kernel user name space to be enabled for implementation of its sandbox except Brave. See More

CoherentWuriupranili's Experience

Funecto con MX Linuxciona perf See More

Top Pro

Planned optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

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

Top 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

It pays the user for using it

The business model around Brave includes the ability to earn money for letting the browser replace ads with ads that were payed for through the brave system. They are preloaded and therefore load much faster. See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chromium. See More

Top Pro

Sync is now available

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

Top Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension. See More

Top Pro

Good privacy and Bat crypto currency awarded for usage

Top Con

Download package is very large considering it as a browser

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

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

Optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

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

Top Con

No cloud sync like Firefox

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. See More

Top Con

BAT is a Bloatware

Top Pro

Built in torrent client

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Pro

Supports the latest technologies

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

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Even some commonly used sites may have problem with rendering. See More

score 79 · Answer 6

Falkon

Top Pro

Developed by KDE

Top Con

Some websites have problems rendering

gevis's Experience

Just compiled QZ to try it because my FF crashes on some web pages and was pleasantly surprised: QZ works clean, has AdBlock out of the box and do not have the FF's download bug. Will use it as a second web browser. Unfortunately, QZ also crashes on some of the webpages where FF crashes. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (GPLv3)

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Based On:QupZilla

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

Top Pro

AdBlock works out of the box

Top Con

Weak multimedia support

PerseveringNinkilim's Experience

light and feasible, stable in linux with adblocks, See More

Top Pro

Relatively lightweight

Top Con

Small userbase

Lesser known browser with a smaller userbase. See More

ConscientiousMaderakka's Experience

Schneller Browser für mein TV. Aber Lesezeichen können nicht links reingezogen werden. Dies ist umständlich. Translater Addon nicht vorhanden und andere. Schade. See More

Top Pro

Simple

No frills and gets the job done. See More

Top Con

Relatively long to compile with all its dependences

Compiling qtwebengine, on wich BZ depends, may take more than 12 hours on old computers. See More

RealisticWadd's Experience

low system usage in comparation with firefox and chrome, very stable See More

Top Pro

Stable

Top Con

Bookmark management not the strongest part

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

SpiritedSirsir's Experience

schnell und saubere Darstellung See More

Top Pro

KDE Plasma integration

Works perfectly on KDE Plasma. See More

Top Con

Not many plugins

However, there is a plugin that lets you run scripts. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with any desktop environment

The browser feels at home irrespective of desktop environment. See More

Top Con

Only compatible with Linux and Windows 64-bit

Top Pro

Clean downloads

Unlike Firefox, with QupZilla you do not need to check every you download if it completed cleanly. See More

Top Con

UX is terrible

Top Pro

Free and Open Source

GPLv3 license. See More

Top Con

Websites think it is Chrome 69

As of December 2020, some sites miss-label the browser as Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Can use an external password manager backend

It has the ability to use Kwallet to store passwords. See More

Top Con

Now under the KDE umbrella

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

Top Pro

Respects privacy

Linux client doesn't have any suspicious network activity or telemetry. See More

UI is extremely minimal. Keyboard navigation makes things fast. See More

score 55 · Answer 7

Min

Top Pro

Minimal design

Top Con

No MIMEtypes defined or added

Won't open or even download Microsoft Office documents. See More

SharpWambeen's Experience

Runs very light on Puppy linux on a very old netbook. Has pretty much all necessary to load most web pages. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (Apache-2.0)

Minimal UI, maybe too much minimal See More

Based On:Chromium core

Top Pro

Built in AdBlock

Top Con

No pointer lock

DiplomaticKoliada's Experience

Top Pro

Built-in tracker protection

Prevents automatic loading of cookies as well. See More

Top Con

Can't login to some websites

Top Pro

Open source

Built with Electron using JS & CSS. See More

Top Con

Lacks basic navigation buttons

No backward or forward buttons makes it a bit cumbersome to navigate. See More

Wasn't impressed with lack of features. Very basic interface. See More

score 22 · Answer 8

Dooble

SuccessfulNargun's Experience

Specs

License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Based On:N/A

score 279 · Answer 9

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Lots of power-user functionality that's often omitted from other browsers

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

Telemetry

Automatic opt-in of OS and geolocation reporting. Opt-out option has been removed. See More

HappyHarmonia's Experience

Eats less memory, runs on slower computers(lesser ram ) better than firefox, but still worse than midori. See More

Specs

License:BSD+Proprietary

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

Based On:Chromium

Top Pro

Easy theming

The theme can be changed very easily, although not very powerful in terms of look and feel (just the colors). New themes can also be created. See More

Top Con

Not open source

ElatedAscalaphus's Experience

I liked Opera 12 a lot for it's unique features. When they dropped this and change into what Opera is now I started looking for something to replace it. And I found Vivaldi - that was using the same philosophy, kept interface but changed engine. Vivaldi is the best webkit based browser though some might miss full cloud support. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

Vivaldi is very customizable, which makes it ideal for heavy web users. You can stack tabs on-top of each other, move the nav bar around, open multiple tabs in the same window, save notes and more. See More

Top Con

Integration with Qt/KDE not ideal (although better than Firefox)

Mininux's Experience

Very very good and customizable even if its use a lot of RAM and needs a good CPU. See More

Top Pro

Compatible with most Chrome extensions

Since Vivaldi is built on WebKit, the same engine 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

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

ImaginativeYiDeokchun's Experience

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Top Pro

Tab tiling

Tabs can be put in a side-by-side or grid view to make comparisons or read and keep track of multiple pages at the same time. The feature can be toggled on Tab Stacks or by selecting the tabs with Ctrl+clicking. Unfortunately they cannot (yet) be resized [Dec, 2017] See More

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

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

Frank Schwarz's Experience

The power, ease, and speed you expect. Most Chrome extensions work in Vivaldi and the constant updates mean it is a strong project. See More

Top Pro

Can group tabs

Very good tab organization by allowing tabs to be grouped together stacking in one tab. See More

Top Con

Can't disable all spyware features

Jesse's Experience

Absolutely a power users dream browser, far superior to Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Allows searching through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks in one place

A feature called Quick Commands (accessed via F2) allows quickly getting to settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with incremental search. See More

Top Con

Has very high RAM usage

As most Chromium browsers it has a big impact on RAM. Vivaldi has a slightly higher hit (~40MB) as it's user interface is in HTML. See More

Ajay Kumar Rawani's Experience

Awesome ! See More

Top Pro

Can be completely keyboard-driven

All actions required to interact with the browser like navigating webpages and changing settings can be performed using only keyboard, no mouse required. 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

ResponsiveHeqet's Experience

Seems to work with no glaring issues See More

Top Pro

Custom keyboard shortcuts

You can 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

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

ProductiveIxtab's Experience

A modern browser that seems to actually have some innovation going on. Works great across platforms and syncs. Also highly customizable. See More

Top Pro

Scheduled theming

Themes can be scheduled to be set at a particular point in time. You can set up a light theme during day and a dark one during night time. See More

Top Con

In development, as such there may be several important features that are implemented badly, non-consistent or illogical

Clear example of such feature is Oldpera-like image blocking. Enabled/disabled status isn't synchronized between tabs, does not stay consistently on or off, and is not merged with browser content settings. So, you cannot (like in old opera) disable images globally and enable them with quick click only when you need to see them on current page - global disabling requires going into browser content settings, temporary enabling requires the same, show images button does not override them. Another example is support for chrome extensions, they currently do not show their own menu when clicking on extension icon in toolbar, there's only Vivaldi's standard options. See More

Zaphod's Experience

A very nice browser with a lot of features, like tab grouping, split screen, mouse gestures and so on. My favourite out there, even though the RAM usage it's a bit high. See More

Top Pro

Add websites as web panels for easy access

You can add sites as panels for easy access them. It allows reading two websites side by side with a simple click on the panel button. Useful for social networks, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook & Twitter. Panels can be hidden when not in use. 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

CromulentTskarishdida's Experience

User experience seems to be so natural with Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Mouse gestures

Integrated customisable mouse gestures. Allows for navigating the web, switching tabs, closing windows, opening settings and other actions with a flick of the mouse. See More

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

CoherentWuriupranili's Experience

Funciona perfecto con MX Linux. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

Top Con

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

You may save a tab stack, but you can only open them 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

ResoluteOmoikane's Experience

Customizable, functionality typically implemented in other browsers as. extentions is builtin and therefore very smoth See More

Top Pro

It's getting faster and smoother

The latest incarnations are clean and speedy, rendering and displaying pages perfectly. See More

Top Con

No touch bar support

TallHarmonia's Experience

Pretty good browser, but a little slow. Customizable and powerful like original Opera. See More

Top Pro

Built-in speed dial

Top Con

Extensions miss hotkeys

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

DependableJuventas's Experience

I use it on Linux. Hard rock stable. Configurable. Not resources hungry. Fast. 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

Slow with Reddit Enhancement Suite

Might be a problem for all Chrome browsers, but Vivaldi really slows down when browsing with RES. See More

Prem Kumar's Experience

Full fledged Browser with lot's of customizations that are not even in Firefox & Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Allows annotating web pages

A notes panel allows leaving notes on webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them. 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

JoyfulElectra's Experience

Its fast and light, has a lot of functions built in and it doesnt take up space. 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 that is designed to help you navigate to the next page of a multi-page article, forum thread or search results without having to hunt for the link. The feature can also be accessed with a shortcut (default Ctrl+Spacebar) or by hitting the spacebar at the bottom of the page. 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

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

Advertisements in the bookmarks

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

Top Pro

Manage bookmarks very 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

Feature creep

Top Pro

Analytical history

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

Top Pro

Active development

Lots of new and useful features added regularly. 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

WebRTC IP leaking can be disabled

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

Top Con

Slower than Chrome

Top Pro

Notes

A notes panel allows leaving notes on webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them. See More

Top Con

Enabling "Hardware Accelerated Scrolling" can make scrolling jittery

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

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

The UI can be customized with ease

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 Con

Still uses some Google services (can be disabled)

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

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 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

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. See More

Top Con

Developers do not care for your privacy

Top Pro

Faster than Firefox, Chrome, or Safari

Top Con

Freezes often

Top Pro

Side panel and status bar

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

Top Pro

Client-side sync

With p2p service, ~/.config/vivaldi/Default data can be synced across multiple devices. 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

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

Window size and resizing on Mac is broken

Top Pro

Sync account offers free email address

Offers alternative to gmail or ISP email at [your username]@vivaldi.com 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

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 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 Pro

Android version

There is an Android version which is better than Chrome and Firefox on mobile. See More

Top Pro

Saving sessions

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

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 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

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

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

Top Pro

Includes tools for annotating web pages

A notes panel allows leaving notes on webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them. See More

Top Pro

Tab bar position can be changed

Users can change tab bar position to top, bottom left or right. 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

Top Pro

Can scroll tabs with Mouse Wheel

Vivaldi can scroll the tabs by the Mouse Wheel which can be available through the settings. See More

Top Pro

Fast and safe

It is so faster and safer. See More

Top Pro

Lots of features and customizability

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

Top Pro

Pioneer of browser features

Presto Opera (Vivaldi's predecessor) is the reason we have a number of common browser features, including tabs and speed dial. 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 Pro

Compatible with all Chrome extensions

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

Top Pro

GDPR compliant

Respects privacy. 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 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

Top Pro

Shortcuts/nicknames for URLs

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

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

score 374 · Answer 10

Firefox

Top Pro

Free, open source and community driven

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

SuccinctTulloun's Experience

I have used Firefox for a decade, I am in the beginning stage of dumping it though. I have lost trust of Mozilla. Looking for a secure, modern, public first (not profit first) browser. Mozilla is no longer ethical, they are profit over people like Chrome and MS. Why recommend it? Most people don't care about privacy anymore I do. See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

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

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

Default Search Engine:Bing

A great ecosystem of good and very good add-on developers make and maintain many add-ons that allow you to adapt Firefox to your needs, make it even more secure and private, etc. See More

Top Pro

Many, many very good add-ons

Top Con

No more bloated

No more bloated See More

Capuccino 's Experience

Sure Chromium is good, but Firefox always FIRST and FOREMOST comes on EVERY Linux distribution known to mankind. Free, Open Source, and Privcacy-focused. And it's also faster than Chromium/Chrome. 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

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

PopularAbyzou's Experience

I have used Mozilla's browsers for many years (since they first came about), and have been VERY disappointed with the recent changes in Version 57! 1) Is excessively slow in loading AND in navigating webpages (even on a Linux box), 2) Discontinued support for FireBug plugin - and forces the would-be web-developer to download a completely different distro of FireFox (called "developer's edition" - which is really a BETA release of the next version), 3) Seems to constantly "hang" on some webpages that have much JavaScript functionality coded in, 4) The new layout (especially the "about:config" pages) are much harder to navigate, and are very "clunky" - SO MUCH for the new "face-lift" of FireFox (and so long, FireFox!!!) It is sad that Mozilla is the one, now, who is trying to play catch-up with M!CR0$0FT $$. See More

Top Pro

Not as resource heavy as Chromium/Chrome

Unlike Chrome/Chromium, Firefox soars high and flies faster the Chrome/Chromium, without the memory strain. This makes it a better alternative to Chromium/Chrome. See More

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

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

HumbleKupala's Experience

Almost unusable these days due to constant crashes. When it runs it hogs memory and CPU resources like no other browser. Firefox is, defacto, not longer a good Linux browser and has gained the same reputation that MS's Internet Explorer once had. See More

Top Pro

Adds tracking protection in private-browsing mode

Tracking Protection feature will block sites from tracking and storing your browsing activity. See More

Top Con

Gets slower with every extension

Until the 10th extension it works fine but after that it suddenly becomes slower and slower and at some point it takes forever to start - if it starts at all. See More

FearlessKisshoten's Experience

Firefox dropped alsa support on Linux thus it is no longer a consideration for me. See More

Top Pro

Very customizable

Like any other browser, you can make your Firefox your own with extensions and themes. See More

Top Con

Can suddenly crash and lose all open tabs

A very annoying bug, possibly caused by addons auto-updates. See More

PositiveMilEspaine's Experience

best 2 browsers are firefox and vivaldi but i chose firefox over it simply because of better bookmark management. See More

Top Pro

Enhanced security features

Firefox gives you full control on what you see and what you send to Mozilla, promoting a degree of privacy. 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

SuccinctMacaria's Experience

The pioneer of web browsers, Firefox, has been around for many years (I've been using this web browser for almost just as long). There's a version of Firefox for every OS that I can think of, it's very stable, and fast. At the time of writing this, one of the few browsers on the internet NOT using the Chromium core. See More

Top Pro

Familiar user interface

Top Con

Updates may break plugins

Firefox's frequent updates may break plugins and extensions. This is very annoying because you are forced to check if every plugin you use is compatible with the new Firefox version. See More

FunIntercidona's Experience

The latest Firefox 60.1 is trash! With every new version, more of our freedom slips away. I just love how Mozilla covers it up too with thier tricky reprasing of words in About:Config. Anyone who falls into bed with Google, can't be trusted, and Firefox can't be trusted! See More

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Con

Uses Google as one of the default search engines

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

InterestingLanCaihe's Experience

Blocks sites without giving option to continue. Mozilla knows best BS, some sites are broken but you still need to get there. See More

Top Pro

Built-in reading mode

Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the text. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode). It's accessed from the address bar by clicking the book icon and offers some customization options. See More

Top Con

Abandoned XUL for webextensions

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

Search dialog remains visible throughout multiple pages

While searching multiple web pages for the occurrence of a word or phrase, with Firefox the Find dialog remains in place, allowing you to just click next to see if that word or phrase appears on that page. See More

Top Con

Terrible user interface

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

WiseAnahit's Experience

too many changes from older version older add-ons no longer work issues with dark system themes See More

Top Pro

Multiprocessor enabled

As of Quantum, all processes of Firefox is now multi-threaded, allowing it to excel greatly on multi-core systems. 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

ClassyBozTengri's Experience

With their Amazon promotion and their "let's reenable what you disabled one update" philosophy I highly doubt their claim for privacy, really bad imo never using again 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

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

VigorousAmunet's Experience

no word to explain its speed, SImply Default browser for all Linux as well windows fans . 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 Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

ConsiderateMokhNaana's Experience

Quantum was such a great update. I can finally move back to Firefox again. 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

Heavy and consumes a lot of memory

Mozilla developers should think on this as the new Microsoft Edge browser steals less memory and it just pops up the moment you open it. In the case of Mozilla, you have to wait for after clicking for it to open. See More

EnchantingHeimdallr's Experience

lately speed and integration with linux is best on firefox See More

Top Pro

Serious about your privacy

Mozilla's goal isn't to collect as much data about you as possible. Instead focus on what you want. See More

Top Con

As of v. 52, audio support on ALSA systems was dropped

Currently, Devs close all tickets about this issue as "WONTFIX". See More

LoyalLodurr's Experience

Version 59 crash on Bodhi-Linux See More

Top Pro

Firefox now comes as a 64-bit application

Since 2016 or 2017 can't remember which. See More

Top Con

Holds apps that can't be removed (Pocket, Google, Amazon, Ebay json)

NiceLahamu's Experience

Runs sweet and has great addons 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

Now forces install and use of snap

UpbeatCloacina's Experience

the new quantum is horrid! 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

Slow

Many people might say otherwise. But the truth is, Quantum or not, Firefox is still slower than Chromium. See More

TheUnderground95's Experience

Fast and powerful engine See More

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

Top Con

No status bar

There's no status bar. Granted, there is a status tool-tip. But what if you want an actual toolbar, you're out of luck. See More

HarmoniousShullat's Experience

Don't like new interface See More

Top Pro

Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Con

New icon looks ugly

LuckyPhylonoe's Experience

customisablewayland support 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

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

ToughRanaNiejta's Experience

very good 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

Poor performance on SSD even without extensions

On a fast SSD such as Corsair Force LE series this browser still performs as if it were installed on a regular hard drive disk, meaning it takes long time to start, even without any extensions. On that matter Google Chrome is light years ahead of Firefox. See More

niingu's Experience

The one and only :) See More

Top Pro

Pioneer in many great features

Top Con

Can't scroll tabs with mouse wheel

It's pretty basic but you can't switch between tabs back and forth using your mouse wheel. Any add-ons supporting this have been deprecated since FF57. See More

Ezequias Siqueira's Experience

The native installation on UBUNTU 18.04 (64-bit) crashes all the time. Until now the troubleshooting was not fixed. 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

Switches from HTTP version of a page to its HTTPS version without notification

Even though the HTTPS page might have different content (yes, bad website design, but if a browser does something automatically you don't expect, it should tell you). See More

LikableYatha's Experience

Good Open Source Browser designed for privacy See More

Top Pro

Good font rasterizing

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

Top Con

Regularly crashes on some web pages

Compiled from source Firefox ESR 52.6.0 (64-bit) regularly crashes on some web pages, while compiled from source a bit earlier version of it (with the same compile options) does not crashes on the same web pages. See More

RationalNintulla's Experience

None other - except elinks. See More

Top Pro

Really independent browser

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

Top Con

Styles HTML-forms with the OS/Desktop theme

At least on X11/Unix that leads to terrible issues, that makes some websites simply unusable for example: If 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

RealisticKurunta's Experience

Relies on dubious 3rd party add-ons to provide speed dial. 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

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

Yanis's Experience

On linux, Firefox seems faster... So, Yes ! See More

Top Pro

Android version allows installation of FEW addons

Unlike other browsers in the market, Firefox was the first to use the same codebase on their mobile apps, allowing them to use a FEW addons in Android devices without modifications. 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

ResponsiveChalchiuhtotolin's Experience

Nice! See More

Top Pro

Able to run natively on Wayland

There are patches which enable Firefox to run natively on Wayland and from version 65 these have been mainlined (Fedora already includes then in the default Firefox 63 build). See More

Top Con

Only partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. But you can edit themes with an add-on. See More

CoherentWuriupranili's Experience

Muy malo , consume mucho y a veces congela el sistema. See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Top Con

Poor font rendering

All Mozilla apps display fonts poorly on Linux these days, other browsers do not show this behavior. (I don't see any difference personally) See More

AssertiveSerket's Experience

sd See More

Top Pro

Uses few resources

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

Incompatible to GTK themes

It reads your GTK config and adopts your theme but it won't fully work with 9 of 10 themes. 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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. 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

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

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

Updates not in sync with updates of (key) extensions

A key extension can suddenly becomes useless because extension updates tend to fall behind the updates of Firefox. See More

Top Pro

Comes pre-installed on most Linux distribution

Because both Firefox and Linux are open source, Firefox often gets bundled with a large number of Linux distribution, including Ubuntu. 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

You Can Turn Off Studies

You can turn off the studies and analytics in the settings. See More

Top Con

Not good for very long screenshots

When the user wants to take a very long screenshot, the address bar appears over the screenshot, covering horizontally part of the content of the webpage from where the user is taking the screenshot. See More

Top Pro

Mobile

Firefox has a solid mobile app. See More

Top Con

Multi-profile function is not user friendly

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

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Con

Doesn’t support multiple languages for spell check

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

Top Pro

Strong developer tool

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

Top Con

Reading mode removes images and videos

Reading mode removes everything that's not text, even if it's desired content. See More

Top Pro

Installed by default on many Linux distributions

Many Linux distributions come preinstalled with Mozilla Firefox See More

Top Pro

Firefox is on most distrobutions depos.

So if it's not pre-installed, you can install it. See More

Top Pro

About:config

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

Top Pro

UI

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

Top Pro

Built-in privacy protection

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

Top Pro

Search dialog includes a Highlight All feature

When searching for a word or phrase in any web page, you can click Highlight All to quickly see all occurrences of that word or phrase on the page. 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

Integration with Pocket

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

Top Pro

Pocket integration

Firefox integrates with Pocket, a web bookmarking service out of the box without needing any plugins. See More

Top Pro

HTML5 Video Preload

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

Top Pro

WebRender

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

Top Pro

64-bit portable version available on PortableApps App Manager

It automatically detects PortableApps portable 32 and/or 64-bit jre. Note: It doesn't save your browser cache or temporary files unless on a external/internal drive (not a USB) and is manually configured to do so. See More

Top Pro

Supports MRU tab order

You can set it to cycle between tabs ordered by how recently you've used them, rather than by the order they appear on the screen. The only other browsers that support MRU tab ordering are slow or don't support common GIF formats. 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

Has an extension for gnome extensions installing

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

Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store. Almost all of the extensions available for Google Chrome hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium too. See More

score 144 · Answer 11

Chromium

Top Pro

Access to Chrome's extensions

Top Con

Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware

WiseAnahit's Experience

dark theme does not matter like firefox add-on forget downloading videos, google does not allow anymore some issues with installed TTF Fonts, grabs Arial Black & others if installed, messes up pages See More

Specs

License:Opensource (BSD)

Allows JavaScript and CSS debugging and code formatting out of the box with support for source maps when viewing minified code. See More

Based On:N/A

Top Pro

Powerful developer console

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

Since it is a bare base browser it does not include any privacy options See More

Thomas Highbaugh's Experience

It's fine a little less Google-blasted but these browsers are memory hogs because they are reporting back whatever they can to sell to advertisers See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

Top Con

High RAM usage

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

SplendidAlalu's Experience

Super fast, more stable than any other, attractive design , and fantastic choice of addons. See More

Top Pro

Supports almost 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

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

EmpatheticVeles's Experience

Remember the story "The wolf in sheeps' clothing" ? See More

Top Pro

Completely open source

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

Top Con

No official builds

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

R Harrington's Experience

I use it 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 Con

Lacks support for certain common media formats

As an BSD licensed project it can not bundle any proprietary or GNU licensed 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

Sandboxing

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

Top Con

Not possible to disable WebRTC

You can only disable using chrome://flags. See More

Top Pro

Actively supported 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 Con

Misses some proprietary multimedia codecs

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

Top Pro

Powerful for testing websites

Can be ran with or without a user interface, i.e. in headless mode, and execute scripted actions with the purposes of testing website behaviour. Similar to Selenium but without the need for additional drivers. See More

Top Con

Video download

Google had banned YouTube video streaming/downloading. Other sites like BrightCove can not be streamed/downloaded. See More

Top Pro

BSD License

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

Top Con

Doesn't read cookies properly

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

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

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

Top Con

Constant Changes

After yesterday's upgrade (version 78.0.3904.87) the context menu for tabs is completely messed up. Closing all other tabs is missing and you can only close tabs on the right (not on the left), bookmarking all tabs is only available at the end of the bar, not in the context menu for tabs anymore. Same for re-opening closed tabs. That too moved from tab context to the end of the bar. Might sound like a small issue. But for long-term users it's highly annoying and completely messes up flow. 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's development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser. See More

Top Con

Search dialog disappears with each new page

If trying to search for the occurrence of a word or phrase on multiple web pages, for each new page you need to bring up the Find dialog again. See More

Top Pro

Latest Blink

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

Top Con

TTF font issues

Does not follow default font settings if certain TTF Fonts installed. Grabs some fonts like Arial Black messing up web page. See More

Top Pro

Bare

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

Top Con

Poor Error Messages

Firefox shows better error messages, for example for problems with SSL zertificates. Still poor, but not as poor as Chromium. Chromium just states, there is an error, but does nothing to help actually reveal the problem. See More

Top Pro

Completely Open Source

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

Top Con

Videos don't work

After yesterday's upgrade to 78.0.3904.87, also obvious problems with video sites that worked before. I had issues with the former version too. But instead of decreasing, they actually increased. See More

Top Pro

BSD license

You can do almost anything with the code. See More

Top Con

Takes a lot of time to compile

It takes more than 26 hours to compile on a Athlon X2 64 computer with 8 GB of RAM. To compare: it takes less than 2 hours to compile Firefox on the same computer. See More

Top Pro

UX is good

Top Con

Simple, dull, bare-boned

As it is made a bare browser that other can build upon. See More

Top Pro

Included as default in many distributions

Chromium is included as the default browser for many Linux distributions, and for those that isn't it's available through official repositories for easy downloading. See More

This is a good choice for someone who is concerned with his or her privacy. See More

score 107 · Answer 12

Iridium Browser

Top Pro

Privacy-focused

Top Con

It's kinda just minimalist chromium

Lacks features and customization, still has Google dependencies. See More

DazzlingMacCuill's Experience

Blazing fast, unreliant support / late updates See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (3-clause BSD)

Default Search Engine:Qwant

Based On:Chromium

Since the most background traffic is disabled it is alot faster than Chrome or a standard chromium for example. See More

Top Pro

Speed

Top Con

No menubar

Like Chomium it supports only global menubars like Linux Appmenu or macOS global menu but it has only a hamburger menu on the window. See More

Top Con

Based on the chromium project

It is based on the chromium project which is currently developed by Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Yandex, and Samsung. See More

Top Con

Slow updates

It is usually build upon older chromium releases. See More

Top Con

Dependent on Google

Does not free you from big corpo. See More

Top Con

Annoying downloads bar in the bottom of the screen

Top Con

It is displaying the bookmarks bar on every new tab page

Top Con

Security

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

score 77 · Answer 13

Qutebrowser

Top Pro

Vim-style keyboard shortcuts and commands for rapid navigation

Top Con

Software rendering only with Nouveau Drivers

DaringGlaucus's Experience

Love vim keybindings. The less use of the mouse the better. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (GPL-3.0)

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

Based On:N/A

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

Top Pro

Fast and light on resource usage

Top Con

Steep learning curve

ExceptionalNemain's Experience

Vim shortcuts for navigation, light, fast, light, safe, customizable. Ony thing lacking is adblock. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

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

Top Con

Slow

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

Top Pro

Great for Privacy

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

Top Con

Requires additional support and plugins for video playback

Top Pro

Userscripts

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

Being a text-only browser that runs inside the terminal makes Lynx very lightweight and minimal since it doesn't need much resources to run and too many things to render (pictures, videos etc...). See More

score 15 · Answer 14

Lynx

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Text-based only

Lynx is a text-based only web browser and it's the oldest browser still in use. Being text-only, it's not very useful anymore outside some niche use cases. See More

Top Pro

Useful for web developers

Since lynx does not load images or any graphical content (just like crawlers) one of these could be to test their website and see how search engine crawlers 'see' each page. Lynx can be used by web developers to test their websites for different reasons and applications. See More

Top Pro

Get up-to-date web info for other apps like e.g. conky

Since lynx is a command line application, it might not be for every one. But for the curious it is a must-have tool. Have a conky? And you want some specific info in there that really matters to you? Well, let lynx to scrap it (anonymously) of the web for you. Stock quotes and exchange rates every couple of minutes in your conky? Sure you can! Just create your custom bash script to let lynx scrap it of the page of your choice and let it work with sed, grep and awk for example. What do you have to loose? ;) See More

Top Pro

Useful in case of an UI failure

In case the UI, graphics driver or shell crashes you can still use lynx. See More

You can add the Trisquel repo and download the browser. See More

score 55 · Answer 15

Abrowser

Top Pro

Free as in freedom

Top Con

Not available to all Linux distros

ResponsibleComus's Experience

Add the Trisquel Repo to your sources. I got Abrowser to work on Debian and Mint. See More

Since it is a GNOME app, you get all the benefits of the GNOME desktop. It's easy to use, Epiphany just works out of the box. It stores your web site passwords in the secure GNOME keyring, and uses your existing desktop settings to launch applications and access the network, so you don't need to configure everything twice. See More

score 55 · Answer 16

GNOME Web

Top Pro

Fits in perfectly with the GNOME desktop

Top Con

Crashes often

Epiphany can crash on a heavy load or when closing/opening tabs. While this only happens every few days, it still happens more often than in most other browsers. See More

Ivan Stanton's Experience

I ran into occasional crashes, but found it clean and simple. I like apps that contain only the features I'll actually use and GNOME consistently makes these. See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (GPLv3)

Browser Engine:WebKit

Based On:Epiphany

Sometimes my workflow involves using separate browsers. I like mail in app tabs, but some jobs are well suited to a lighter, simpler web browser. See More

Top Pro

Excellent alternative to the most popular web browsers

Top Con

Not much room for configuration

The choice for extensions is very limited, although there are decent extensions for the most useful activities and features it still cannot compare to the extensive collections that other browsers may have access to. The number of tweaks that can be done to the browser from the options menu is also very limited since Epiphany follows a philosophy of "less is more". While this can be enjoyable for some it still hinders a lot of functionality and removes the ability to personalize the browser the way you want it to be. See More

TranquilEros's Experience

Works well, private. See More

Top Pro

GNOME integrated

Includes features specific to GNOME like turning sites into apps that are managed with GNOME software and the ability to install GNOME extensions. See More

Top Con

Becomes messy on highly graphical pages

Sometimes struggles to handle complex graphical pages such as Facebook. In these circumstances, it becomes 'messy' - text and graphics get mixed up - and will eventually crash. Even so, this is a light and useful browser. See More

Top Pro

For Linux and Windows

Available for Linux and Windows 10 with WSL, see here. See More

Top Con

Tends to lag on large pages

Open this page in Epiphany and start zooming/scrolling quickly to see what it. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Epiphany is pretty lightweight and doesn't require much memory to start up. See More

Top Con

Limited UI

Top Pro

Best touchpad navigation

Pinch to zoom, smooth bidirectional scrolling are still far beyond other browsers. See More

Top Pro

Default in many GNOME versions

Epiphany has been the default browsers for many distributions that use stock GNOME for a long time now (although it's being replaced by the much more popular Firefox lately). See More

Does not install ready to use with proxy chains. See More

score 15 · Answer 17

surf

Top Pro

Simple

Top Con

Does not work with proxy chains

AdaptableLluddLlawEraint's Experience

Does not work on ubuntu 19.04 with proxy chains See More

Top Con

Appears to be dead

Last commit on Git is from 2019. See More

Seamonkey is more than just an e-mail client as it is a full featured web browser as well. This makes for a good app to use for those that dislike having many different apps on their devices as it is a bit like an all in one solution. See More

score 31 · Answer 18

Seamonkey

Top Pro

Not just an e-mail client

Top Con

Feature Creep

It is an abomination which consists of a web browser and email and several other things See More

AuthenticLelantos's Experience

SeaMoneky works great on Fedora Linux w/ GNOME3 & Xfce Desktop Environments. I was able to use all the settings I had on Windows 7. It's great being a Full-Time Linux User 8) See More

Specs

License:OpenSource (MPLv2)

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

Top Pro

Auto imports setting from Thunderbird

For those that would be making the switch from the Thunderbird e-mail client setup is quite easy with Seamonkey as it auto imports all previous Thunderbird settings. See More

Top Con

Permanent CPU usage

Seamonkey permanently uses CPU (quite a few percents on a Intel i7). On a laptop this causes the fan to run (which make noise) and the battery to lasts less time. See More

WiseAnahit's Experience

tried it & did not work claims WYSIWYG web page editing, I could not get it working downloaded & installed, something missing in Linux See More

Top Pro

Works great on Linux

Tested on Slackware Current See More

Top Con

Linux version not working

Missing some key files. Does not run. See More

TheUnderground95's Experience

Lighter version of Mozilla Firefox See More

Top Pro

Great for editing websites and saving

Native site editing tool See More

ColorfulCicholGricenchos's Experience

Flawlessly working just needs an update. Integrated mail (thunderbird style) is very nice. Light on CPU. See More

Top Pro

stable

when seamonkey & windows have problem use the linux version (on Peppermint). Very Stable and does what I need it to do (participate in giveaways) See More

DynamicQuirinus's Experience

Great for editing html, lightweight See More

Need to do something about it. See More

score 68 · Answer 19

Waterfox

Top Con

Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze

Top Pro

Fast

Even faster than firefox. See More

HumbleElkunirsa's Experience

Most problems with Waterfox are caused bt Google & websites the browser is great See More

Specs

License:MPL-2.0

Default Search Engine:Bing, Startpage

Based On:Firefox

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

Top Con

Owned by an advertising company

Top Pro

Offers excellent privacy

Does not phone home. See More

FearlessHelios's Experience

Looking for a Firefox alternative after Mozilla broke XUL add-ons in version 57. Tried Vivaldi and couldn't figure out an easy, clean way to get tabs below the address bar (my preference). Waterfox was being recommended on various forums and so I tried it and never looked back. See More

Top Con

Goodish, but still bad

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

Top Pro

Never ever freezes

Highly reliable. See More

MagicalHuttellurra's Experience

very simple with extensions. See More

Top Pro

Works with Firefox addons

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

FerventMictecacihuatl's Experience

couldnt figure out how to install it after download...overly complicated See More

Top Pro

Less bloated than Firefox

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

Top Pro

Extremely customizable

It has almost every setting imaginable. See More

Top Pro

Multiple add-on support

Top Pro

Works with major streaming services

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

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

score 94 · Answer 20

Opera

Top Con

Proprietary

Top Pro

Highly customizable

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

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Opera still provides a coherent, productivity focused alternative to the Chromium GUI while retaining all the power of the underlying web engine. In particular, its pop-out video feature is one not seen yet in other browsers and it's hard to live without once you've had it. See More

Specs

License:EULA

Browser Engine:Blink / Chromium core engine

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

Default Search Engine:Google

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

Top Con

Opera is owned by a Chinese Consortium

Top Pro

VPN onboard

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

InquisitiveAnkotarinja's Experience

Very quick, efficient ad-blocking, integrated Chat-GPT See More

Top Con

Same security-holes as Chrome

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

Top Pro

Video pop-out feature

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

PrivateNingikuga's Experience

Best browser out there, fast startup, default adblocker, built-in VPN, granular privacysettings, low ram footprint See More

Top Con

Basically a Chrome clone

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

Top Pro

Compatible with Chrome extensions

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

SupportiveHimeros's Experience

unlike opera neon stable versio is awsome See More

Top Con

Not releasing versions for 32bit anymore

After releasing Opera 45, they have not released any opera version for 32 bit linux. See More

Top Pro

Integrated AI with Aria

Very impressive results with AI chat from sidebar. See More

KnowledgeableGelos's Experience

Faster and no ads See More

Top Con

Fewer extensions

Top Pro

Lots of built-in features that need to be installed as plugins in other browsers

Opera has a lot of built in features by default which are found only as plugins in other browsers. Some of these features include: RSS client, free and unlimited VPN and Ad Block. It also has an automatic currency converter. And when you mark some text on a website you don't need to right-click to search for it. After you have marked the word(s), a little window comes up with some options for 'Search' or 'Copy', you just have to click. See More

OrganizedDirawong's Experience

This browser offer vpn See More

Top Con

Opera is not available for some countries

After using Opera as my main browser, you may suddenly find yourself not able to reach Opera website or login to your Opera account to sync bookmarks, and passwords, because they blocked your country. See More

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

FriendlyLugalIrra's Experience

Blisteringly quick See More

Top Con

Buggy

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

Top Pro

Low memory footprint unlike bloated Chrome

Top Con

Too power hungry for older computers

Top Pro

Quick start page with the bookmarks is really amazing

Top Con

Built ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

AdBlocker onboard

It's possible to add your own filter lists. The internal adblocker is faster than any external. See More

Top Con

Built-in ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

You can install extensions on the sidebar

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

Top Con

Trash VPN

Terrible VPN service. Super slow. And it's not even a VPN, it's just a proxy service. See More

Top Pro

Can increase speed by compressing data found on web pages

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

Top Con

Unable to sync extensions

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

Top Pro

Opera can have extensions from Opera Addons & Chrome Store websites

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

Top Con

WebKit/Blink is not customisable or lightweight

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

Top Pro

Customizable

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

Top Con

Needs user prompt to install from Chrome web store

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

Top Pro

Starts up really fast

The start up time of a browser is really important as you open and close the app all the time. See More

Top Con

Cannot stop auto update

Top Pro

Opera Sync

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

Top Con

Just a Chromium clone

The beauty that was Opera on desktop ceased after version 12, now it's a Chromium clone with a focus on not being different or unique in any way. Opera 12 is still available, but should be considered obsolete as it doesn't support standard web security measures anymore. See More

Top Pro

Portable

You can save the Opera's setup files on a USB hard drive and run its portable version on only Windows, not on Linux. See More

Top Con

Cannot select tabs

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

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Con

Doesn't show windows indicator when maximized

Top Pro

Lots of new features in Opera 2017 & 2018

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

Top Con

Extension icons not directly moveable

Top Pro

Touch bar support

Top Con

No reader view

Top Pro

Built-In Adblocker

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

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Pro

Syncs with mobile

Sync on your Android device. See More

Top Con

Uneditable default search providers

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

Top Pro

Speed Dial

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

Top Con

No address bar in fullscreen mode

Unlike in Vivaldi. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

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

Top Pro

Battery saving mode

Top Pro

Fast video loading

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

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

Top Pro

For Opera 2017 & 2018 gonna be time of new

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