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

Pale Moon

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

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

PoliteActaeus's Experience

youtubes freeze the browser and my entire computer for about five minutes. when my cursor can respond i have to hit 'force quit', there is no other way out. i cant watch youtube at all on pale moon.there is a problem going on but i dont see it solved in the near future. See More

Specs

Based On:Firefox ESR 38

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

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

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Top Con

Uses Goanna

ProudXmucane's Experience

This is a very fast browser and even 4k videos load super fast. See More

Top Pro

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

Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

KnowledgeableAhuraMazda's Experience

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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 Con

Unsecure

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

IndependentHorkos's Experience

Loads web pages fast (4 seconds into Google in comparison with Firefox at 38 seconds); streams YouTube video with no stutter of buffering; similarly reading digital magazine content is free of buffering and freeze. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

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

Top Pro

Independent from Google and Mozilla

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

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

No it doesn't ublock origin and umatrix are the best blockers See More

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

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

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

Top Pro

Open source

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

Top Con

Incompetent developers

The same company that bought Startpage. See More

Waterfox

Top Pro

Fast

Top Con

Owned by an advertising company

LoyalKaratgurk's Experience

I LOVE this browser, 10 versions in our last update, ZOOM finally supports audio in it, I love customizablility - and most of all NO mozi//a ties (new for 3.02) , and the damn fast speed See More

Specs

Based On:Firefox

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Default Search Engine:Bing, Startpage

Does not phone home. See More

Top Pro

Offers excellent privacy

Top Con

Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze

Need to do something about it. See More

Top Pro

Works with Firefox addons

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

Top Con

Requires Windows XP SP2 or newer

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

Top Pro

Less bloated than Firefox

Pocket, Telemetry, Data collection and Startup profiling is removed. See More

Top Pro

Extremely customizable

It has almost every setting imaginable. See More

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

Chromium

Top Pro

Supports all of Google Chrome features

Top Con

High RAM usage

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

ModestAlanGua's Experience

It was okay See More

Specs

Based On:N/A

Browser Engine:Blink

License:Opensource (BSD)

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

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

Top Con

Lacks privacy options

Top Pro

Bare

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

Top Con

Lacks support for certain common media formats

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

Top Pro

BSD license

You can do almost anything with the code. See More

Top Con

Not possible to disable WebRTC

Top Pro

Latest Blink

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

Cross-platform

Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays 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

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

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

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

Simple, dull, bare-boned

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

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

Completely open source

Unlike Google Chrome, Chromium is completely open source. 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

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. See More

GNU IceCat

Based On:Mozilla Firefox

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:OpenSource

Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

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

Gordon Landsmann's Experience

chrome never plays youtube video, making it virtually useless. It has also become slower over the past few months, making it a tedious experience for page loads See More

Specs

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

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

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

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

Top Pro

Fairly low on resource usage

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

VivaciousTatenen's Experience

Consumes from 30 to 60 percent of memory and cpu displaying just one page See More

Top Pro

Free, open source and community driven

Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here. See More

Top Con

Slow performance in OS X

Uses a lot of resources and feels slower than the Linux and Windows versions. See More

ConsideratePapsukkal's Experience

Working very slow on youtube, with 2Gb memory in Windows XP See More

Top Pro

Awesome customizability

It might not have as many add-ons as Chrome, but there are a lot of them, and they are less hit-or-miss in my experience. See More

Top Con

Partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. See More

UpbeatNjorun's Experience

firefox is so fast and with best features 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

Poor enterprise support

Does not use standard management tools such as GPO or Profile management. No MSI. See More

CaffeinatedLamia's Experience

De-platforms user as per their recent policy changes See More

Top Pro

Great 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

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

Eric Waters's Experience

Long time off-and-on user, I do love Firefox. I went off it for a while when it started to get bloated and slow, but the new Quantum update is sleek, fast, and super-awesome. You need to do some tweaking for privacy when you first start it up (HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, uBlock), but overall it's pretty great. 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

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

Distraction-free 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

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

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

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

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 developer tool

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

Google obsession

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

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

Android version allows installation of addons

Unlike other browsers, Mozilla uses almost the same codebase as with the desktop version so extensions work as-is without code modifications - something other browsers cannot do due to their breaking and sometimes unrelated code branches to the mainline desktop branch. See More

Top Con

Unstable add-ons

E10s has already caused many extensions to not work properly. Also, in November, only add-ons with WebExtension API can be installed. 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

Terrible user interface

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

Top Pro

Good font rasterizing

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

Top Con

Installing some extensions still requires restarting the browser

While some of the developers already allow users to install their extensions without the need to restart the browser, not all of the extensions have been updated to support non-restart installation yet, as some developers have yet to add special code to do so. 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

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

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. 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

Top Pro

Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. 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

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

It is now censoring voices.

If you like open source and speed, switch to vivaldi or brave. See More

Top Pro

Really independent browser

It's not dependent on Google. See More

Top Con

Doesn’t support multiple languages for spell check

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

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

Icons display blurry on HiDPI

Firefox has not yet addressed its scaling issues for HiDPI screens, making the icons blurry. 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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. 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 Con

Pocket integration

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

Heavy and consumes 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 case of Mozilla, you have to wait for after clicking it for opening it. See More

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Uses extremely old browser version (NOT TRUE)

Firefox used to use old Netscape code because it was a continuation of Netscape. All of the current code, however, is fully updated, and this "Con" is no longer true. 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 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

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

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

GTK Themes styles the HTML forms

If you're in Linux and you use a dark GTK theme that uses white text and come to a webpage that forces black text on html-forms buttons you will get black buttons with unreadable black text. See More

Top Pro

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 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

HTML5 Video Preload

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

Top Con

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

You must use PulseAudio if you need sound in Firefox. 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

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

Easy screenshots without extensions

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

Top Pro

Really independent browser (not true)

While it used to be, it now is partnering with google and censoring voices. Try switching to something else. 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

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

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

Opera

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

PrivateOgmios's Experience

Any browser controlled by a tyrannous totalitarian government is a danger to our freedoms and privacy and self-determination and liberty. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

Browser Engine:Blink / Chromium core engine

License:Proprietary

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

Top Con

Trash VPN

Top Pro

Portable

You can save the Opera's setup files on a USB hard drive and run its portable version anywhere. See More

DazzlingHuehuecoyotl's Experience

Pros over the rest: pop-up windows easy tab-muting See More

Top Con

No address bar in fullscreen mode

Unlike in Vivaldi. 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

InventiveNgalyod's Experience

Sidebar with FB Messenger, Whatsapp and Telegram. Less CPU usage than anyother browser I used without loosing anything! 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

Battery saving mode

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

I loved Opera for many years - then it became a Chinese browser, and is part of the 'five eyes' spy network. NO more reason to avoid using Chrome to use Opera... Then along came Brave and Vivaldi - so we have a safe Chrome, and a better Opera ;) Move on people... nothing to see here. See More

Top Con

Fewer extensions

Top Pro

Lightweight

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

Top Con

Fails Cover Your Tracks Privacy Test

Here is its' results as of 2021-10-26... Our tests indicate that you are NOT PPROTECTED against tracking on the Web. IS YOUR BROWSER: Blocking tracking ads? NO Blocking invisible trackers? NO Protecting you from fingerprinting? NO Your browser has a UNIQUE FINGERPRINT! Check it yourself if you want to risk downloading and installing it. Check your own browser using EFF's "Cover Your Tracks"! 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

Top Con

Built ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

AdBlocker onboard

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

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

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

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. 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

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

No reader view

Top Pro

Built-in currency converter

Just highlight price on a website and see this price in your currency. See More

Top Con

Quite slow and sometimes unresponsive

It also eats RAM. See More

Top Pro

Small RAM usage

Opera uses very little RAM. 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

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

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

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

No menu bar

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

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 Con

Extension icons not directly moveable

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

Opera Sync

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

Top Pro

Touch bar support

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

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

Lets you limit the network traffic, RAM and CPU usage of the browser. See More

coc coc

Top Con

Only in Vietnamese

Opera GX

Top Pro

GX Control

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

Although it has many privacy and security features, Opera is owned by a Chinese company and everything you do online is spied by China probably. See More

Top Pro

Very fast

Using the chromium engine, this browser is as fast as Chrome and Edge. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Browser is highly customizable, with dual colors, sounds, effects, bookmarks and tabs and much more. See More

Top Pro

GX Corner

It's a page designed for game lovers with news, prices, deals and much more about the latest games. See More

Top Pro

GX Cleaner

Lets you clean browser data easiliy. See More

Top Pro

Built-in tracker blocker

Top Pro

Built-in news reader

Apart from other browsers like Edge which forces you to read only their feed, you can add any feed and news channel, and read them anytime. See More

Top Pro

Built-in music player

It has a built-in music player which you can listen to Spotify, Youtube Music and Apple Music in the background. See More

Top Pro

Lots of Add-Ons

Opera Store and Chrome Store is available for this browser with millions of add-ons. See More

Top Pro

Built-in VPN

It's a free service and unlimited. Perfect and very easy to use. See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblocker

Top Pro

Opera Sync

You can sync everything via other devices and it is password protected apart from a standart login. See More

Top Pro

Built-in messenger services

It has built-in Whatsapp, Telegram, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and much more and this feature itself is better than most of the browsers out there. See More

Safari

Top Con

It is for Mac only

Top Pro

Extremely fast

ExpertYmir's Experience

good See More

Specs

Based On:N/A

Browser Engine:WebKit

License:Proprietary

While Safari er 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 Con

Proprietary

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

lostinlodos's Experience

Fast, light weight. 1 tab? 10? 100? Still fast as lightning. See More

Top Con

Terrible support for open source formats like .VP9 or .ogg

Apple does not support open source formats. Instead, they use H.264 and H.265. See More

Top Con

Can be memory intensive

Power users will find their memory footprint balloon to extremes. Not an issue if you have anything over a base line Mac product, but safari regularly crosses 8GB on me, 1/3 of my memory. See More

Top Con

Bookmark sync server eats resources

The down side to safari is actually when you’re not using it. It randomly syncs bookmarks and pins. And it does so all at once extremely fast. For heavy users this could be many hundreds of Mbps, eating into all available bandwidth. See More

Top Con

OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5. 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

Only browser that supports Netflix in 4k. See More

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Top Pro

4k Netflix

Top Con

Poor HTML5 support

Edge is considerably worse at rendering pages than Chrome or Firefox, or other leading competitors, and often encounters rendering issues where it doesn't render the page as the web designer expects. See More

ProfessionalTaraxippus's Experience

Fast on YouTube if u have a slow computer See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium Core

Browser Engine:Blink

Default Search Engine:Bing

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS

Top Pro

Very efficient

Less battery draining than any other browser. See More

Top Con

CPU / Memory USAGE -Legacy Edge

It makes your CPU very hot ( if N3700 ), and on 8GB ram it hogs memory like heck on YouTube and Google Classroom. -Could be antitrack See More

Nikolas's Experience

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Top Pro

Reading mode

Reading mode is a feature that can allow users to read an article in a reader mode, removing distractive elements such as ads and other elements, leaving only the main article and images, similar to Safari's reader mode and Firefox's recent addition of Reader View. See More

Top Con

Spies On You

Microsoft spying browser. See More

Top Pro

Better performance

The performance of Microsoft Edge not just outperforms Microsoft's previous browser known as Internet Explorer, but due to the better technologies used, it also performs faster than other browsers such as Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Sleeping tabs

Edge finds the inactive tabs and removes them from consuming any ram, it is initially set to 2 hrs but can be changed to as short as 15 min. It is prolly more useful to dev's and ppl who use more tabs See More

Top Pro

Supports web notes (annotations, drawing and highlighting)

Microsoft Edge supports annotations, drawing and highlighting that can allow users to add annotations into the website as a reference, highlight the notes on the website and also draw anything on the website. See More

Top Pro

Gorgeous new tab page

Users who launch a new tab will see a Google Now-like page where it shows the latest news, sports scores, weather, recommended apps, most visited sites, etc. See More

Top Pro

No longer supports legacy elements from Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge drops support of legacy elements that were previously available in Internet Explorer such as ActiveX, Browsers Helper Objects (BHOS) and VBScript in favor with JavaScript and HTML5. See More

Top Pro

Reading list

Reading list is a read-it-later feature that can allow users to add article to this section and read the article later on similar to Pocket and Safari's Reading List. See More

Top Pro

Stacked Tabs

With the new Creators Update, tabs can now be stacked for later use. See More

Top Pro

No longer supports legacy elements from Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge drops supports of legacy elements that are previously available in Internet Explorer such as ActiveX, Browsers Helper Objects (BHOS) and VBScript in favor with JavaScript and HTML5. See More

Top Pro

Comes with Cortana

Cortana is a personal assistant and AI by Microsoft inside the Edge browser that can allow users to perform recommendation search, hints, highlights, answers and assistant based on the highlighted keywords user wish to perform and Cortana will give the results on the right side of the sidebar. See More

Top Pro

Works with Windows Defender - real time protection

Edge has real-time protection from malicious websites and identity thefts by Windows Defender. See More

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

Google Chrome

Top Con

Huge memory hog

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

Eric Waters's Experience

I was a big fan when it first came out, but now I'd think of it more as baby's first browser if it wasn't basically just a spy tool for Google. Browser based on it, like Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, have all the advantages and significantly fewer drawbacks, with more features and frequently less resource and network usage. What's almost worse is the Chrome Store where you get you addons - it's essentially unregulated, and just kinda a black hat's playground. Go for FIrefox or Brave instead, or grab Opera or Vivaldi and be very careful about your extensions. Or hell, use Edge - basically anything but this. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

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

License:Proprietary

Chrome allows opting out of tracking by going to settings > advanced > privacy and un-checking any unwanted services. Alternatively Chromium can be used to get a similar browser experience without Google's services on top of it. See More

Top Con

Online tracking by default

Top Pro

Bad for battery life

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

Top Pro

Backed and supported by Google

Whilst Chrome is based on the open source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and build on top of it. This means it takes (and contributes to) a number of the benefits of the open source model whilst having the resources, support and investment of a major company. See More

Top Con

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

Simple user interface

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

Top Con

Gives too much weight to Google on the future of the Web

Top Pro

Excellent HTML 5 feature support

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

Top Con

Proprietary

Google Chrome is proprietary software, meaning that it is not open source. See More

Top Pro

Freeware

Available as a free download. 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

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. See More

Top Pro

Huge variety of extensions available

Top Con

No mobile extensions

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

Top Pro

Engine is open-source

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

Top Con

Bad quality control on extensions

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

Top Pro

Sandboxed Tabs

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

Top Con

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

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 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

Plenty of extensions

Top Con

Not fully open-source

While most of Chrome is open source: Chrome does have some closed-source components to make it possible to play some closed media formats. See More

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

American agents may track you

Top Pro

Installs extensions without requiring a restart

Top Con

Made by the Americans

Top Pro

Multiple account Login

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

Top Con

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

Top Pro

Customizable by user

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

Top Con

Basic

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

Top Pro

Multiple account login

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

Top Con

It's Google

Data collection! See More

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

Spyware by Google

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

Data collection

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

Top Pro

Only one distributor

Unlike those various unofficial Chromium builds, there is only one distributor, so all Chrome releases follow the same standards. See More

Top Pro

Can translate text directly

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

SRWare Iron

Kingpin Private Browser

Based On:Firefox 75.0

Browser Engine:Gecko

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

UC Browser

score 214 · Accepted Answer

Brave

Top Pro

Built-in Adblock now

Top Con

Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers

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

ResourcefulHeka's Experience

Brave used to be good now it freezes on certain streaming sites See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core

Browser Engine:Blink

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. See More

Top Con

Download package is very large considering it as a browser

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

PrivateOgmios's Experience

I have used this for over year now and it gets better every time. It scores the best compared to any browser I have tried on the Cover Your Tracks Test. My favorite browser now. 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

Doesn't remove search engine ads

EarnestHippolytus's Experience

Brave is an excellent browser, the fastest out there See More

Top Pro

Faster than Google Chrome

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

Top Con

Dumbed down in the latest versions

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar. See More

NonchalantEurymedon's Experience

no adds, no youtube adds either. very fast and reliable. Changed a lot in 1 year for the better. Use it on my macbook pro. and my iphone. 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

Hypocritical/deceptive stance on privacy and advertisement

NOTE: Although this was once a concern, the Brave group have been completely up front about what was actually happening, and this wasn't it. 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

UpbeatNjorun's Experience

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

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. See More

Top Con

Sync issues

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

DecisiveGatumdag's Experience

The fastest browser I've ever used. 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

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension though. See More

SuccessfulAnnaPerenna's Experience

its the only browser that will let you download videos from anywhere providing the website has a downloading function GOD DAM !! but at least it is fast clean no problems yopu can do anything you want download videos music pitchures whatever im a teck guy and trust me those 300 other people that recomend the other browser undre brave its crap used to be good a few years back now 2 much bloatware high cpu usage ect my OPINIAN Go BRAVE ! GO STRONG YOU CANT BE WRONG !! a tech guy ! See More

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

It's now a faster, less intrusive Chrome. 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

ResoluteHorkos's Experience

The best browser for low-end device's and even on all devices in general, it's super super fast, and reliable and I definitely recommend it See More

Top Pro

Sync is now available

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

Top Con

Appearance

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

HappyTonacatecuhtli's Experience

DuckDuckGo / Chrome usage - can choose browsers (i reccomend duckduckgo) 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

Uses Brave independent search engine, but only in 3 countries, uses Google as default everywhere else

No longer uses Google in 3 countries and could always use others like DuckDuckGo and whatever the User specified. Now uses the new Brave Search independent search engine (only in USA, Canada and UK) and allows user to choose to submit anonymous searches to Google, Bing, and Mojeek thereby protecting user's privacy and expanding the search results. See More

SincereChimalma's Experience

Brave is the best browser I've used so far on Windows, and oh, it's the fastest too! See More

Top Pro

Can choose search engine

Top Con

Password issues

Like Chrome, the password cannot be copied from the iOS brave app. See More

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

It's Chrome - without the security issues. Brave, Vivaldi, and Firefox are all you need. See More

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

Top Con

The iPhone version has some odd behavior

On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration. See More

KindCupid's Experience

best browser See More

Top Pro

Supports the latest technologies

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

Top Con

Brave Rewards is a Scam

Yes, you do get BAT Rewards when you opt in to ads. But the BAT's you gain is kept in Uphold - which is a website for crypto trade and wallet, and uphold shows considerably less amount of BAT points that you normally have in Brave browser's display. And it is not possible to withdraw less than a lot of BAT points, so you have to spend years to actually get to withdraw your currency. See More

CaffeinatedLamia's Experience

No proper customer support. Even on their community site, they close your issue without providing proper solutions. See More

Top Pro

Scores Highest on EFF's Cover Your Tracks

EFF is a non-profit focused on user privacy. They offer a test called Cover Your Tracks" that anyone can use to check their browser's privacy. See More

Top Con

Pay to remove ads

You need to pay them to remove ads from their search engine. Otherwise, you will see ads. See More

bottomcentre's Experience

Good browser, not perfect. A "Chrome" custom browser :/ See More

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

Top Con

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

Eric Waters's Experience

It's outstanding - super fast, especially for watching streaming videos. It's got a great aesthetic, with a super-clean interface and really a good New Tab page and Bookmark Manager. The BAT "fair ads" program is innovative, and a great idea in theory. In practice, it sends you notifications with ads twice an hour by default, which is intrusive and annoying, so it needs some work. Overall, strong thumbs up. 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. See More

lewis dowson's Experience

Brave is superb! It is cybersecurity oriented and basically doesn't let any trackers get to you. Of course, you can choose which layers of security you want to activate. And the best feature is that it is free! See More

Top Con

Bookmark button located on the left side of the URL bar

It can't be moved. See More