What are the best fast browsers for YouTube and video streaming ?

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score 77 · Accepted Answer

Vivaldi

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Top Pro

Built for power users

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

Top Con

No default adblocker or crypto miner blocker

UpbeatMacGreine's Experience

This is difficult but ... profound! The answer would be ... I've used it to find it is so. See More

Specs

Default Search Engine:Bing

Top Pro

Compatible with most Chrome extensions

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

fanofjesus's Experience

it can't handle very many windows open or tabs at the same time See More

Top Pro

Customizable UI

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

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

x.'s Experience

Definitely not Vivaldi's strongest area. See More

Top Pro

Mouse gestures

Integrated mouse gestures. Fully configurable as of Vivaldi 1.2. Allows for navigating the web, switching tabs, closing windows, opening settings etc. with a flick of the mouse. 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

Built on web technology

Vivaldi uses JavaScript, React, Node.js, Browserify and multiple npm packages to build the browser. This means you can edit the UI if you know HTML, JS and/or CSS. 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

Cross-platform

Vivaldi is available on Windows, Linux and OSX. 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

Can be used to keep 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

No VPN

Top Pro

Tabs can be stacked

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

Top Con

No automatic page translation

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

Top Pro

Tab tiling

Tabs can be put in a side-by-side or grid view so you can watch a video and control YouTube while accessing other sites at the same time. The feature can be toggled on Tab Stacks or by selecting the tabs with Ctrl+clicking. 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 Pro

Low memory consumption

Top Pro

Faster than Firefox or Chrome

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 Pro

Hibernate background tabs

Tabs in the background can be put to sleep to free up memory resources. See More

Top Pro

Add websites as web panels for easy access

Allows for easy access to any site and for reading two websites side by side. Useful for chatting (i.e. Facebook) and surfing at the same time. Panels can be hidden when not in use. 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

Non-closable fixed tabs

A setting lets you prevent closing fixed tabs so you don't close the YouTube tab by accident. 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

Analytical history

View graphically the most visited pages on a monthly, weekly, or daily basis. This should give you a hint if you have been visiting YouTube too much recently. 😄 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

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The Best 1 of 8 OptionsWhy?

My Recommendation for Vivaldi

My Recommendation for Vivaldi

Built for power users

No default adblocker or crypto miner blocker

Compatible with most Chrome extensions

Telemetry

Customizable UI

Comes with many Ads

Mouse gestures

Proprietary

Built on web technology

Not available on your Phone/Tablet

Cross-platform

Can't protect pinned tabs from changing to another URL

Can be used to keep notes

No VPN

Tabs can be stacked

No automatic page translation

Tab tiling

Tab behaviour can be customised

Low memory consumption

Faster than Firefox or Chrome

Can be completely keyboard-driven

Hibernate background tabs

Add websites as web panels for easy access

Allows navigating to the next page without searching for the link

Non-closable fixed tabs

Custom keyboard shortcuts

Analytical history

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

7 Other Options Considered

My Recommendation for Mozilla Firefox

My Recommendation for Mozilla Firefox

Strong HTML5 feature support

Icons display blurry on HiDPI

Fairly low on resource usage

Heavy and consumes lot of memory

Great performance

Slow performance in OS X

Free, open source and community driven

Unstable add-ons

Awesome customizability

Installing some extensions still requires restarting the browser

Lower memory fingerprint than competitors

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

Ethical and pragmatic company mission

Updates not in sync with updates of (key) extensions

High performance

Poor enterprise support

Uses less resources

Good font rasterizing

Automatically updated

Fast bookmark management

Tagging bookmarks

Distraction-free reader view

Strong developer tool

Syncs between devices

Integration with Pocket

My Recommendation for Brave Browser

My Recommendation for Brave Browser

Free and Open Source

Privacy protection

Built-in Adblocker

My Recommendation for Chromium

My Recommendation for Chromium

Supports all of Google Chrome features

Misses some proprietary multimedia codecs

Access to Chrome's extensions

High RAM usage

Completely open source

Lacks privacy options

Backed by Google

Lacks support for certain common media formats

Not possible to disable WebRTC

My Recommendation for Opera

My Recommendation for Opera

Quite slow and sometimes unresponsive

AdBlocker onboard

Customizable