What are the best browsers for web development?

Mozilla is a non-profit organization that cares about your personal privacy. All other major vendors release a browser to boost some other market. See More

Top Pro

Organization that cares about your privacy

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

CompassionateAtum's Experience

great developer tools and privacy light years ahead than chromium browsers 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

Some built-in advertising

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

FearlessUgajin's Experience

good solution 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

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

ColorfulEunostus's Experience

No response preview rendering 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

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

WisePoseidon's Experience

Really good as of the new update. See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

Top Con

Google obsession

Lately, Firefox has been partnering with Google, leading to some privacy concerns. See More

TranquilLahamu's Experience

There is no difference between firefox for developers and the default firefox except the dark theme which is default in the developer edition. Alas you can even use it in the standard firefox. See More

Top Pro

Superb inspect tool

The inspect (CSS debug) pane/window is very good. Especially the Font tab is extremely helpful. See More

Top Con

Terrible user interface

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

PerceptiveLuDongbin's Experience

Fast and lightweight! See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

MethodicalTangaroa's Experience

Pretty fast and has built in tracker blocking 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

Multi Profile is not user friendly

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

StudiousCopacati's Experience

best plugins 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

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

awarosa sun's Experience

always install in C dict when updating. See More

Top Pro

Really independent browser

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

AffableTartarus's Experience

In my knowledge css work well in firefox and it has lot of tool for web developer. See More

Top Pro

Integration with Pocket

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

Top Con

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. This applies only for Firefox versions below 60! See More

Top Pro

Fast

With new integrations focused on security and performance, Firefox is faster and less likely to have problems during use than ever before. See More

Top Con

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

Reader View

Reader View in Firefox allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode). See More

Top Con

Need to "enable" after opening devTools

Network capturing and debugging should work out of the box without the need to reload the page. 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

Sometimes stops working for few seconds

Sometimes stops working for 10/15 seconds, then starts working again. Inconvenient when streaming video on youtube or twitch. See More

Top Pro

Lower memory fingerprint than competitors

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

Top Con

Doesn't care for its original guidelines/goals

Mozilla originally aimed to be the "good guys" with user choice and privacy in mind. Their current leadership cannot be trusted to hold those goals in high regard: 1) Added Pocket - a privacy data sensitive plugin, made it mandatory 2) Tried to sneak in advertisement as "drive-by hack", backpedaled unconvincingly once users complained 3) Tried to randomly inject a small percentage of Firefox downloads in Germany with a data collecting plugin (Cliqz) that tech-savy Germans consider adware (no opt-out question asked) See More

Top Pro

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

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

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. 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

Lack of market dominance keeps you from building in a locked in way

It's very hard to add support for other technologies, in ths case browsers, later on in website development. By dealing with this from the start you build more maintainable, resilient, thought out code. See More

Top Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

Top Pro

Accessibility tab in developer console

Important for US government regulations and website inclusion. 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

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

Offline mode

Firefox has the best "Offline Mode" feature implementation which allows you to revisit previously opened pages (even the static ones, not only those which use app-level offline storage) without having to connect to the internet. See More

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Automatically updated

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

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Good font rasterizing

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

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Android version allows installation of addons

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

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

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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

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 Pro

HTML5 Video Preload

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

Top Pro

WebRender

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

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 Pro

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. 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

Firefox lockwise password management

Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked! See More

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Pro

Great developer tools

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

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

Brave

Top Pro

Safety and privacy well taken care of

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

CoolPhilotes's Experience

brave is safer than google chrome See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Browser Engine:Blink

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Top Con

Not independent browser

Uses Chromium. Helps Google monopoly. See More

BraveAmun's Experience

Brave is Efficient, fast and least resource hungry browser I've used to date. It has a built-in ad-blocker, Rewards program, Full Access to the chrome webstore and a VPN in the premium version. See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

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

CompassionateAtum's Experience

chromium based so dependent on google so it can never prove it does not track you 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

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

RobustEurytion's Experience

BAT and secure browser from creator of firefox See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblock

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

Top Con

Poor plugin support

Still missing many essential plugins. See More

MethodicalTangaroa's Experience

Very fast and has a built in blockers for more privacy! See More

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. See More

Top Con

New, and a bit buggy still

Developers are rapidly killing bugs, but it still sometimes suffers a glitch or two. Until the developers get caught up, it still feels like a brand new product. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

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

Top Pro

Planned optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

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

Top Pro

Very fast built-in adblock

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

Top Pro

Sync is now available

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 Pro

Built-in adblocking

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

Top Pro

Option to pay supported sites based on view time percentage

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

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Top Pro

Optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

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

Top Pro

Takes care of privacy and security

Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. Things like https everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best. See More

Top Pro

Built-in torrent client

Can map web resources like CSS and JS to files on disk, so you can make edits directly from the debugger. If you change the files, the website seamlessly updates with new functionality. See More

Google Chrome

Top Pro

Great developer tools

Top Con

Uses lots of memory

Chrome spins up separate processes for different tabs. This gives better isolation from crashes, at the cost of using more memory! See More

Justin Chung's Experience

Some js frameworks such as vuejs have a chrome extension for easier development although you should test your website on all the popular browsers such as firefox, safari, ie and chrome itself. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

License:Proprietary

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

Has many extensions specifically to enrich the developer tools See More

Top Pro

Strong community of extension developers

Top Con

Proprietary/not open source

Chrome is based on Chromium, an open source project. Google adds auto-update and usage and crash telemetry. Learn more: https://fossbytes.com/difference-google-chrome-vs-chromium-browser/ See More

Elias Van Ootegem's Experience

Seeing as the question is not "what is the best browser for developers", but rather "what is the best browser for web development", the answer has to be, at least in part, informed by the platform/audience you target. You can use some alternative browser nobody has ever heard of on the basis that its tooling fits your development flow perfectly, but that counts for very little if the end result looks like hot garbage on the machines your end users will be looking at the finished product. Just like you want your staging/test environment to resemble production as closely as possible, I'd argue you want to see what you're working on on the browser that is most likely going to be the one clients/end-users use to view the content. No matter how you feel about google, google chrome, or the direction the project is taking, IMO the best browser to use is the browser people most likely are to view your content on. Chrome is, by far and away, the browser with the highest global market share (63.5%). Safari is hovering at around 19%, has the second largest market share. It's platform specific, and I suspect a large portion of its market share stems from mobile use (although same could be said for Chrome). Either way, both Chrome and Safari share some DNA in the form of the webkit engine, and behave similarly for the most part. Chrome, and its open source cousin Chromium, offer a wide selection of plugins that make development easier, on top of built-in features like having your browser mimic a different device (eg a smarphone viewport). Are there browsers that use less resources? Sure. Are there browsers that care more about privacy of its users? Undoubtedly! Does the average person care about these things? Unfortunately not enough. Is it a PITA to have to install, and check on several browsers what your work looks like? Absolutely (FYI: I did web development back in the day where IE6 was still being supported). There's just no way around it, though: whatever browser people are most likely to use, is the browser you should use during development, just to make sure things will look right for your target audience. See More

Top Pro

Debugging Node.js server side

Top Con

Not privacy-friendly

CompassionateAtum's Experience

bad privacy practicing browser and for developers the problem is it has a weaker html5 support than firefox See More

Top Pro

Great responsive mode

Has a bunch of predefined devices to choose from, ability to add custom devices, has mode that enables dragging to change resolution. It's also the smoothest when resizing in responsive mode (doesn't flicker on repaints like Firefox). See More

Top Con

Huge memory hog

Each tab and extension in the browser uses significant chunks of RAM, giving the browser poor performance on machines without enough RAM to supply. See More

Electrux Redsworth's Experience

Has some quirks, but is great to work on/with. See More

Top Pro

Great CSS3 animation debugging

In the inspection tab you can fallow the animation frame by frame. 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

CoolCymopoleia's Experience

Does not work in Mac Safe Mode See More

Top Pro

Very strong profiling abilities

Google also has a lot of video guide for how to use them properly and what to use each profiler for. 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

StudiousInanna's Experience

That's really great! See More

Top Pro

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

NeighborlySalacia's Experience

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Top Pro

Can offer good suggestions for how to improve your site

The audits tab in the dev tools has lots of great suggestions for performance in different areas (network utilization, page performance and load times, etc). See More

Top Con

It's google

Data collection! See More

OpinionatedMeskhenet's Experience

Can't change background and a few other settings either!!!!! See More

Top Pro

Syncs between devices

By logging into Chrome using a Google account it's possible to sync history, extensions, passwords, bookmarks and other settings between devices. This makes it great for anyone working with multiple devices as it allows experiencing consistent context when in the browser. See More

Top Con

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

Excellent HTML 5 feature support

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

Top Con

Big target for hackers

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. That makes it the most targeted browser in the world by hackers. See More

Top Pro

Offline storage support on all technology

Web SQL, IndexedDB (webWorker), Local/Session Storage, App Cache, Service worker. See More

Top Con

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

Top Pro

Allows easy mobile device (Android) debugging/inspection

chrome://inspect can be used to easily debug any Android device using Chrome. See More

Top Con

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

Top Pro

Great built-in developer tools

Chrome comes with built-in developer tools, making testing and enhancing web pages simpler for those of us involved in working with such technologies. As well as being beneficial to developers, this also has some benefit to non-technical users; in that by making testing simpler for developers those developers are more likely to use Chrome for their tests, and can spend more time making improvements over investigating underlying causes of issues. See More

Top Con

No mobile extensions

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

Top Pro

Huge variety of extensions available

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

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

Find network bugs with Chrome's built-in net-internals

A network troubleshooting tool, net-internals is built into Chrome and Chrome devices. Use chrome://net-internals to isolate TCP/IP-related issues. See More

Top Con

Blurred fonts on Windows

Fonts on Windows are blurred, that is especially noticeable in light fonts on dark background. Small italic text is hard to read. See More

Top Pro

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 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. See More

Top Pro

Most likely to be the browsers people will view your content on

When developing for the web, market share matters. You could develop a site to look perfect on your browser of choice, but if 63.5% of people use a different browser where your site looks off, it accounts for nothing. The best browser for web development is, in no small part, contingent on what browser people are most likely to use when viewing your product. See More

Top Pro

Simple user interface

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

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Fast rendering

Renders HTML pages very fast. As a Google's commercial shows, Chrome renders HTML pages faster than a gun shot. See More

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Customizable by user

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

Top Pro

Backed and supported by Google

Whilst Chrome is based on the open-source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and builds 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 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 Pro

Plenty of extensions

There are far more available on this browser than any other. See More

Top Pro

Installs extensions without requiring a restart

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 Pro

Data Collection

Chrome uses online services to collect our data and improve our browser experience. 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

Chrome is faster than Firefox

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

Uses Blink

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

Top Pro

Can translate text directly

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

It was not long ago that Google removed the sync API from Chromium, leading you to not be able to sync it with your Google account. Google really doesn't want you to be using Chromium. See More

Chromium

Top Con

Google is "killing" Chromium

Top Pro

Provides latest debugging features

The browser updates frequently and is on the bleeding edge when it comes to new features. See More

CompassionateAtum's Experience

it does not compete at all against firefox developer edition in privacy, security, portability, features, web tools ,being lightweight, history settings and what not firefox will be lightyears ahead See More

Specs

Based On:N/A

License:Opensource (BSD)

Browser Engine:Blink

Top Con

No official builds

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

FearlessUgajin's Experience

firefox is better than chromium See More

Top Con

High RAM usage

Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM. See More

Top Pro

Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing

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

Top Con

No auto update

You will have to manually download the new version (updated almost hourly), unzip it, and put it in place of the old version every time. Again, Google really doesn't want you to be using chromium and will do anything to prevent you from doing so. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

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

Top Con

Can be dangerous

Because it's completely open source, people can make a fake version and install it when you install other software. And people can add a virus in it. 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

May not have Google API integration

Depending on the distributor, Chromium may not have any Google API keys, which means you can't use Google services. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Con

Doesn't report crashes

Crashes are not reported automatically to Google. See More

Top Pro

Superset of Google Chrome

Top Pro

BSD license

You can do almost anything with the code. 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

Bare

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

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement. See More

Top Pro

Latest blink

This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside. 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 Pro

Completely open source

Unlike Google Chrome, Chromium is completely open source. 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

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

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Tab behaviour can be customised

Top Con

New and buggy

Still working out a few kinks, not entirely optimized yet so it can be a little slow or resource intensive. The latest versions have much improved performance though. See More

OrganizedTepoztecatl's Experience

Vivaldi in itself has a great concept, but it it's much less performant than Chrome. Also it'd device emulation is buggy as heck and doesn't work in undocked mode. Bug Reports to this are up to 5 years old and they still didn't consider fixing that. A browser that doesn't support developers shouldn't be used for developing. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:BSD+Proprietary

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

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 the keyboard, no mouse required. See More

Top Con

Telemetry

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

CompassionateAtum's Experience

bad privacy policy See More

Top Pro

Chrome extensions support

As Vivaldi is built over Chromium it supports Chrome extensions. 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

MightyDogoda's Experience

I don't know but some css code wont work in this browser 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

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

PoliteBeChuille's Experience

Buggy as heck, even with some basic functions such as printing. 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 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

Designed for power users

Top Con

High RAM usage

As Vivaldi is built over Chromium it has the same bad RAM performance of Google Chrome or any other Chromium browser. As the Vivaldi UI is also technically a webpage it uses slightly more RAM, around 40MB more. 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

Device emulation doesn't work

The device emulation every chromium browser get's shipped with is broken in this browser if you use the developer tools in undocked mode. The developer ignores 5 year old and re-occurring bug reports. 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 Con

No automatic page translation

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

Top Pro

Faster than Firefox or Chrome

Top Con

Closed source

While Vivaldi is currently available gratis (without monetary charge), it is currently not fully libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is, therefore, neither free nor open-source software. The C++ source code however is open-source under a BSD license and can be downloaded and browsed from here. The UI code, though not open-source, is easily readable as it's HTML, CSS & JS. Modifications can be shared as their forum even has a dedicated section. 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

Proprietary

While Vivaldi is currently available gratis (without monetary charge), it is currently not fully libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software. The C++ source code however is open-source under a BSD license and can be downloaded and browsed from here. The UI code though is not open-source, but it's easily readable as it's HTML, CSS & JS. Modifications can be shared as their forum even has a dedicated section. See More

Top Pro

Tab stacks

Tabs can be grouped under a single tab to easily group similar tabs. See More

Top Con

Extensions miss hotkeys

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

Top Pro

Chrome's debugging tools

Since Vivaldi is built over Chromium it comes with the Chromium developer tools, meaning you have all the same tools as Chromium or Chrome. 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

Cross-platform

Vivaldi is available on Windows, Linux and OSX. 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

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. See More

Top Con

Not available on your Phone/Tablet

Vivaldi is currently only available for desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac). Though the developers have already said that they plan to release it. See More

Top Pro

Non-closable fixed tabs

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

Top Con

No touch bar support

Top Pro

Analytical history

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

Top Con

No essential tools for web development

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

Notes

A notes panel allows leaving notes about webpages, they can include screenshots for reference. It has tags as well as folders to help manage them. See More

Top Pro

Web panels

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

Top Pro

WebRTC IP leaking can be disabled

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

Top Pro

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

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. 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 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

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

Dark theme out of the box

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

Automatic tab hibernation

Vivaldi has a built-in feature that automatically hibernates your background tabs to release RAM and system's resources. It's fully customizable. 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 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 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 programming language documentation manuals like from DevDocs or Mozilla Developers. Panels can be hidden when not in use. See More

Top Pro

Scheduled theme change

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 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

Works perfectly and does what is promised. No fuss, no unnecessary gimmicks See More

LT Browser

Top Pro

Create your own Custom Device

Top Con

No browser testing

SharpHaldi's Experience

Specs

Minimum System Specs:Windows7+, macOS X 10.10+ & Ubuntu 12.04+

Top Pro

Mirrored Interactions

Every click and navigation over one device is automatically replicated over the other devices in real time. See More

GraciousEurymedon's Experience

Really good product for responsive testing. One of the features I really liked was that I could even test my local website even when I was offline! See More

Top Pro

One Click Bug logging

You can easily mark bugs and share it with team on any bug tracking tool of your choice See More

FlexiblePaidia's Experience

I like it very much as it allows to added custom devices with custom dimensions. A great tool for developers and designers. See More

Top Pro

Scroll Sync

Junaid Ahmed's Experience

In my opinion, this is the best browser out there for web development See More

Top Pro

Test Instantly on Different Device Viewports

CompassionateAtum's Experience

it is not known much and it is struggling for income comparing to others so its future is unstable its support can die if it happens the browser is dead much like ie 11 See More

Top Pro

Supports Hot Reloading For React

DependableMengPo's Experience

I love this easy way to debug my websites on different mobile phones. This is definitely a very great tool! See More

Top Pro

Built-In Developer Tools For Quick Debugging

KindChloris's Experience

It allows us to perform responsive tests on different viewports simultaneously. See More

Top Pro

Built-In Image Editor To Highlight Bugs

VersatileLevana's Experience

We are using LT Browser since its inception. But till now it is working smoothly. See More

Believe it or not, Safari has amazing dev tools, To enable them, go to the Preferences -> Advanced -> Show develop in the menu bar. There are many many options to help you with mobile site development, and much more. See More

Safari

Top Pro

Excellent dev tools

Top Con

OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5. See More

MightyDogoda's Experience

as we know this is not for windows or linux See More

Specs

Based On:N/A

License:Proprietary

Browser Engine:WebKit

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 Pro

Works elegantly in OSX

Top Con

No Windows or Linux support

Top Pro

Good source map support

To use source maps, go to right click -> show page source and you can use the document browser on the left to navigate scripts. If a script has a source map, an arrow will appear next to it. You can click it to expand the file to show the source map. If you need more help go here. See More

Top Con

Poor support for new web technologies

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

Handoff and bookmark sync

Safari has a feature called handoff. This allows you to have a tab open on your computer, turn on your phone and swipe up on the Safari logo in the bottom left corner. Unlock your phone and the [tab should be open](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681 for more details). See More

Top Con

Proprietary

While Safari is currently available gratis (without monetary charge) on Mac OS X, 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

Top Pro

Apple Pay support

You can use Apple Pay on any sites that support it See More

Top Con

Not very popular

Many people prefer the alternative Chrome, which may lead to less support. See More

Top Pro

Safari TP supports all ES2015/16/17 features

Safari is the first browser that supports all ES2015/16/17 features. (Currently the Tech Preview only.) See More

Top Pro

iCloud syncing

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

lack of development tools when compared to firefox developer so not a great choice See More

Ghost Browser

Top Pro

Log into any website with multiple accounts in one window

Top Con

No essential tools for web development

CompassionateAtum's Experience

Specs

Based On:Chromium

License:proprietary

Browser Engine:Blink

Top Pro

Projects function removes the need to log in

With the new release (as of Dec 6th 2016), you can save a group of "Sessions" with logins stored to a Project, which you can launch with the click of a button. "Projects" eliminates the need to spend time setting up your workflow every day, so you can get right to work. See More

Top Con

Doesn't support linux

Supports only windows and mac See More

Top Pro

Save a set of isolated cookie jars into a project

Top Con

Closed source

Proprietary software makes it harder to port, study, and do further edge-case testing without breaking terms and possibly getting sued. It even makes it harder to test on multiple OS platforms, some with varying ability for rendering. See More

Top Pro

Color coding for session organization

Different sessions are distinguishable by color for easier organization. You can also rename sessions to fit your needs. See More

Top Pro

Group your cookie jars

Top Pro

Developer tools for each session

The developer tools work just like Chrome, except that you can separate dev tools by session. See More

Top Pro

Assign a different proxy to each tab for international sites

This is fantastic for keeping messages in their place yet easily accessible for work See More

Opera

Top Pro

The sidebar multi-message functionality

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

CompassionateAtum's Experience

privacy issues in vpn and browser also it is owned by chinese See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:Proprietary

Browser Engine:Blink / Chromium core engine

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

Top Pro

Battery saving mode

Top Con

Basically a Chrome clone

Leon Sant - Jennings's Experience

made the switch after using both firefox and chrome and relly like it so far, that being said it is now running Chromium which is a shame, better then there old engine but means its just another way for google to take my data. 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

Extension icons not directly moveable

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

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

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

Top Pro

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

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

Opera turbo

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

Top Con

Proprietary

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

Top Pro

You can install extensions on the sidebar

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

Top Con

Uneditable default search providers

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

Top Pro

VPN onboard

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

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 Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Pro

Touch bar support

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

Features that chrome doesn't have are also there in Microsoft Edge. There are side tabs in Edge, there are sleeping tabs, and more. See More

Microsoft Edge

Top Pro

Awesome features

Top Con

Closed Source

PrivateNephthys's Experience

"A google chrome with more features" See More

Specs

Default Search Engine:Bing

Available on:Windows 10, iOS, Android, Mac

Browser engine:EdgeHTML

Top Pro

Strong integration with Visual Studio

ProductivePhylonoe's Experience

amazing developer tools. Good battery life. Faster than Chrome. Extensions work perfect here. Vertical tabs and sleeping tabs See More

Top Pro

Longer battery life

CompassionateAtum's Experience

A great upgrade in privacy in comparison of previous edge See More

VigorousThoth's Experience

Now integrates chrome extensions. Mozilla developers Edition is better in some areas suck as network interface inspection. See More

TrustingHozanek's Experience

that is boring See More

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Beaker Browser

Platforms:Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit, macOS

Browser Engine:Blink,Trident

Polarity Browser

Default Search Engine:Ecosia

Avant Browser

Browser Engine:Trident, Gecko, Blink

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Firefox Developer Edition

Top Pro

Designed specifically for web development

Is the only browser I know with features specifically oriented to aid web development out of the box. See More

Top Con

Heavy

Since it has a lot of tools to support debugging and web development, it is considerably heavier than the standard version of Firefox, definitely I don't recommend it for standard web browsing. See More

HappyTiddalik's Experience

cool See More

Specs

Based On:Mozilla Firefox

License:Open source (MPL 2.0)

Platforms:Windows, Macintosh OS, Linux

Top Pro

Standard complaint

AFAIK, Firefox is the most HTML/CSS/JS standard complaint of all the browsers out there. See More

Top Con

Not based on Chromium

Marty's Experience

S$it keybindings make this s*it trash See More

Top Pro

Ready for work right out-of-the-box

Top Con

May be unstable

Since it is a release channel between beta and Nightly, it may be unstable. See More

's Experience

It's firefox. For developpers. All features a web dev could want. See More

Top Pro

Can be launched alongside Firefox (release version)

Some might find that useless, but that's very practical to dedicate a browser to development. See More

Top Con

Lack of support for source maps in blobs

Still a bit buggy support for CSS source maps coming from blobs. The team is working on it though, and the fixes will eventually land in the production code. See More

MerryBirrahgnooloo's Experience

its style editor is really cool See More

Top Pro

Fast

It's Firefox. It's fast. See More

Top Con

This project is not yet available for Android

ToughAnput's Experience

Chinese developer trash See More

Top Pro

Feature rich

This browser is the most feature richt browser for web development out of the box. You can restrict the bandwidth in "Responsive Design Mode" to see how the page performs under unoptimal conditions. It has predefined profiles for e.g. Ipad, Galaxy S9 and lots more. See More

Top Con

Has to be installed with a Mozilla account

William.exe_v4.0's Experience

It is just a robust browser with a big collection of tools like CSS grid and the ability to manipulate animations. More than just a browser. Way to go Moz://a. See More

Top Pro

Beta channel

As this branch of firefox uses a beta channel of firefox releases, you will see if future versions will contain breaking changes and give you time to react. See More

CompassionateAtum's Experience

very stable, private and also comes with many web tools See More

FearlessUgajin's Experience

best ever See More

DignifiedZarik's Experience

Fast, clean, just works. See More

Prajesh Sudhakar's Experience

Firefox Developer Edition is the blazing fast browser that offers cutting edge developer tools and latest features like CSS Grid support and framework debugging. See More

ConvivialOcypete's Experience

I've been using Firefox Developer Edition for all my Web Enterprise Apps for the last 5 years and it has been the best decision I ever made. See More

PassionateNanaya's Experience

Great set of tools and ready to work out of the box. It's fast, it's intuitive and it allows me to do my work without spending time configuring all sorts of bits beforehand. See More

ConvivialKuaFu's Experience

I use Firefox Developer Edition every day for working with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. It's free and has everything that I need to develop. See More

CaffeinatedNjordr's Experience

i am using it and it proved a best for me See More

Youtube User's Experience

you will get the latest feature than firefox See More