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

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

Based On:Chromium

License:BSD+Proprietary

Top Con

High CPU usage when streaming

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

fanofjesus's Experience

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

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

x.'s Experience

Definitely not Vivaldi's strongest area. See More

Top Con

Freezes often when on a low RAM

Top Pro

Low memory consumption

AmiableEhecatl's Experience

I love all the features of Vivaldi! lots of functionality with the ability to move tabs, stack tabs, can have multiple tabs open and browser NEVER CRASHES See More

Top Con

Slow, too bloated

While having many features to customize your experience is a good thing, when it slows down the browser, there's a problem. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme out of the box

There's even an option to automatically transition from light to dark based on the time of day. See More

ConvivialShurpanakha's Experience

I haven't yet. Im trying to download it. See More

Top Con

Advertisements in the bookmarks

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

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

HarmoniousRanginui's Experience

Most complete browser that protects your privacy. Youtube still has a problem on it (cookies, video stops when Adblock is installed and an ad comes up_. See More

Top Con

No default crypto miner blocker

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

CaffeinatedLamia's Experience

Froze on start up. Didn't even open a site and it froze. See More

Top Con

Some non-optional telemetry

According to its privacy policy, Vivaldi sends an approximate location (country or major city), randomized ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution (to know what screen sizes to test on) and time since last message every 24 hours (to know amount of active users). See More

Top Pro

Fast and safe

It is so faster and safer. See More

MellowMalingee's Experience

Faster than other browsers and fast for video streaming See More

Top Con

No guarantee that you won't lose your session

The browser window may freeze at any time, and you lose all your progress, open windows, and session without an option to restore it next time you open your browser. See More

Top Pro

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

Ruth 's Experience

Every couple of months, I switch browsers to see whats out there, what's good, what's bad and such. I also get bored using the same thing for months on end. I've tried Vivaldi a couple times. In my experience, it was faster a couple years ago than now. While it is for power users, it has become very bloated with features. Too bloated. I used for a couple days last week. I wanted to like it. But, it was just too slow. Chrome is faster. Also, it is easy for ads to make it through.Most current browsers have some sort of adblocker. Not Vivaldi. That is probably another reason why it is slow...the ads and the lack of anything to block them. On to the good... I love being able to switch themes so easily! It's very customizable. Also, if you are a extension addict, most Chrome add ons are compatible with it. While having many features is a disadvantage in the sense it slows it down, it is also an advantage. This is a browser for power users. It does have alot of potential! See More

Top Con

Extensions miss hotkeys

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

Top Pro

Reader mode

Vivaldi has a built-in reader mode so you can remove all the clutter in news pages and read only the content, you can also customise the reader mode, like font size, style and colours. See More

Top Con

Enabling "Hardware Accelerated Scrolling" can make scrolling jittery

Top Pro

Custom keyboard shortcuts

You can change and add keyboard shortcuts for basically all commands. It also has single key shortcuts to execute actions with one click. See More

Top Con

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

Built-in page capture

Vivaldi can grab a picture of the whole webpage or part of it and saves it automatically inside a note or as a file in your disk, or in your elected directory. But I have problems with images of full windows shown on monitor (using X Window System in GNU/Linux). Here I use system XWindow screenshots. See More

Top Con

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

Custom search engines

You can add as many search engines as you like. For example you can set up one for YouTube, one for Wikipedia, or whatever you want: you need only the URL of the search and it can be used from the URL bar (by prefixing it's nickname, yt for YouTube for example). See More

Top Con

Developers do not care for your privacy

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 Con

No option to open saved tab stack as a tab stack

You may save stack, but you can open it as separate tabs. Interesting that when you save session with stacks, you'll be able to open the stacks with inner settings of page tiling (size and zoom) as well. Contradiction worth of shame. See More

Top Pro

Lots of features and customizability

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

Top Con

No silent background updates

Unlike most modern browsers, Vivaldi doesn't have the option to update silently in the background. It gives you a dialog box when an update comes out. Worse, the box doesn't warn you that not updating the browser could lead to security risks. That could be pretty bad for your average joe, who doesn't know computers that well. See More

Top Pro

Tab bar position can be changed

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

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

Slower than chrome

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

No automatic page translation

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

Top Pro

Hibernate background tabs

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

No VPN

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 Con

Still uses some Google services (can be disabled)

Top Pro

Can be used to keep notes

A notes panel allows to save notes from webpages and can include screenshots for reference and have tags and organized in folders to help manage them. Thumbnails are too small and Notes do not have separate page in settings, but it should, there are a lot of things to improve. See More

Top Con

No touch bar support

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

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

Updates via dialog box

Unlike most modern browsers (but like most browsers of yesteryear), Vivaldi gives you a dialog box when an new version comes out; it doesn't just update silently in the background. The dialog box tells you about the changes that have been made, and lets you chose when you want to update. See More

Top Pro

Faster than Firefox or Chrome

Top Pro

Saving sessions

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

Top Pro

Programmable user interface

For you programmers out there: Since Vivaldi uses JavaScript, React, Node.js, Browserify and multiple npm packages to build the browser, it can be customized with ease by anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. See More

Top Pro

Built-in ad and tracker blocker

Vivaldi has a built-in blocker that allows you to select between blocking just trackers or both trackers and ads. With customizable blocking list sources, good performance, and support for all the standard blocker list features you find in ad blocker extensions (with more to come), you might not need an ad blocker extension at all. This also comes in handy on Android, where Chromium/Vivaldi doesn't support extensions. See More

Top Pro

Usable fullscreen mode with address bar when needed

In comparison, on Chrome you will not see the address bar, only on ChromeOS when your mouse is on the top of the screen. See More

Top Pro

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

Manages bookmarks well

Vivaldi has an excellent bookmarks system. Bookmarks can be easily accessible via Speed Dial, side-bar, bookmarks bar, quick commands. No more messy bookmarks bar is needed and location bar suggestion is improved thus! See More

Top 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 Pro

GDPR compliant

Respects Privacy. 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

Full of customizable keyboard shortcuts (can be completely keyboard-driven)

It's possible to change and add keyboard shortcuts for basically all commands. It also has single key shortcuts to execute actions with one click. See More

Top Pro

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

Side panel and status bar

Unlike most modern browsers (but like most browsers of yesteryear), Vivaldi has a status bar. But the status bar is optional, you can turn it off (in the settings) if you don't want it. Vivaldi also has a side-panel, which again, can be turned off. 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

PC Cross-platform

Vivaldi is available on Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS, so it covers the most used PC operating systems. See More

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

score 54 · Answer 2

Chromium

Top Pro

Cross-platform

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

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

Based On:N/A

License:Opensource (BSD)

Top Pro

Latest Blink

Top Con

Lacks support for certain common media formats

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

Top Pro

Completely open source

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

Top Con

Not possible to disable WebRTC

Top Pro

Does not come with Google

Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement. 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

Supports all of Google Chrome features

As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome. See More

Top Con

No official builds

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

Top Pro

Bare

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

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

Lacks privacy options

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

Simple, dull, bare-boned

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

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

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

Since it is vased on Chromium and uses webkit, not a lot are left since google left. See More

score 28 · Answer 3

Kiwi

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

Top Pro

Adblocking

Specs

Platforms:Android

Top Pro

Able to use chrome extensions

– 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

score 27 · Answer 4

Safari

Top Pro

Sleek design

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

lostinlodos's Experience

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

Specs

Browser Engine:WebKit

Based On:N/A

License:Proprietary

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

Top Pro

Extremely fast

Top Con

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

ExpertYmir's Experience

good See More

Top Pro

Works elegantly in OSX

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

Top Con

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 Pro

Safari uses Webkit, a great open source web engine

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

Top Con

It is for Mac only

Top Pro

iCloud syncing

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

Top Con

Does NOT block Ads

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

Top Con

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

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

OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5. See More

Top Con

Even on OSX not the best Experience

Video controls are bad esp. on youtube. Only few browser extensions. See More

Only browser that supports Netflix in 4k. See More

score 45 · Answer 5

Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

Top Pro

4k Netflix

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

ProfessionalTaraxippus's Experience

Fast on YouTube if u have a slow computer See More

Specs

Default Search Engine:Bing

Based On:Chromium Core

Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS

Top Pro

Very efficient

Less battery draining than any other browser. See More

Top Con

Only for Windows 10

On desktops, Edge is only available on Windows 10. However, it is cross-platform on tablets. See More

Nikolas's Experience

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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 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

Top Pro

Stacked tabs

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

Top Con

Spies on you

Microsoft spying browser. See More

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

Proprietary

While Microsoft Edge is currently available for Windows 10 without additional monetary charge (free as in price), it is currently not free as in freedom (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

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 Con

Making Googles Blink monopoly even stronger

The new Edge uses Googles Blink engine, essentially turning Edge into a reskinned Chromium. 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 Con

Flash embedded

The "security bug once a week" software flash is standard embedded and enabled in Edge. 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

Works with Windows Defender - real time protection

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

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

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

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

score 66 · Answer 6

Mozilla Firefox

Top Pro

Fairly low on resource usage

Top Con

Icons display blurry on HiDPI

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

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

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

License:MPL-2.0

Default Search Engine:Bing

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Pro

Strong HTML5 feature support

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

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

VivaciousTatenen's Experience

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

Top Pro

Automatically updated

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

ConsideratePapsukkal's Experience

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

Top Pro

Respects your privacy

Mozilla is one of the first browsers that advocates privacy. They believe that internet should be in the user's control and not those who run the websites, and so they give tools inside the browser to make the user be more in control. See More

Top Con

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

UpbeatNjorun's Experience

firefox is so fast and with best features 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

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

CaffeinatedLamia's Experience

De-platforms user as per their recent policy changes 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

False positives in virus-scanner

All Downloads in Firefox are scanned for viruses, but there are a lot of false positives. 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

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. 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

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

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

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

Partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. 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

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

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

Devtools for WebExtensions are buggy

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

It is now censoring voices

If you like open source and speed, switch to Vivaldi or Brave. 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

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

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

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

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

Uses Google as its default search engine

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

Top Pro

Strong developer tool

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

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

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

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

Terrible user interface

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

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

Good font rasterizing

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

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

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. 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

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

Really independent browser

It's not dependent on Google. 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

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

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

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

Poor enterprise support

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

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

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Google obsession

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

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

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

Pocket integration

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

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

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

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

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

score 230 · Answer 7

Brave

Top Con

Brave is an Ad company

Top Pro

Built-in Adblock now

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

EarnestHippolytus's Experience

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

Specs

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

Based On:Chromium core

License:MPL-2.0

Top Con

Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers

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

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 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

Top Pro

Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking. 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 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

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

DecisiveGatumdag's Experience

The fastest browser I've ever used. See More

Top Con

Doesn't remove search engine ads

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

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 Con

Password issues

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

Top Pro

Sync is now available

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

ResourcefulHeka's Experience

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

Top Pro

Very fast

The fastest browser out there. 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 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

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

Ben Guy-Williams's Experience

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

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

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 Con

Uses much RAM

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

Top Pro

Now supports Chrome Webstore

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

HappyTonacatecuhtli's Experience

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

Top Con

Appearance

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

Top Pro

Can choose search engine

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 Con

Bookmark button located on the left side of the URL bar

It can't be moved. See More

Top Pro

Developed by creator of Mozilla and Javascript

KindCupid's Experience

best browser See More

Top Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension though. 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

CaffeinatedLamia's Experience

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

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

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

bottomcentre's Experience

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

Top Pro

Tor is available right in the browser

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

Sync issues

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

Still dependent on Google

Since it's based on Chrome. See More

Top Con

No cloud sync like Firefox

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

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

score 44 · Answer 8

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

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

Based On:Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons

License:EULA

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

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

Proprietary

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

Top Pro

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

Freeware

Available as a free download. See More

Top Con

Bad for battery life

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

Top Pro

Simple user interface

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

Top Con

It's Google

Data collection! 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

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

No mobile extensions

Chrome on Android and iOS does not support extensions. 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 Con

Bad quality control on extensions

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

Top Pro

Data collection

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

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

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

Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi

Top Pro

Huge variety of extensions available

Top Con

American agents may track you

Top Pro

Plenty of extensions

Top Con

Made by the Americans

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

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

Installs extensions without requiring a restart

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

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

Top Pro

Customizable by user

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

Top Con

Spyware by Google

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 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 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

Default Search Engine:Bing

score 9 · Answer 9

Microsoft Edge

Top Pro

Longer battery life

Top Con

Closed Source

Specs

Available on:Windows 10, iOS, Android, Mac

Browser engine:EdgeHTML

Top Pro

Awesome features

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

Top Con

Unsecurised

Top Pro

Strong integration with Visual Studio

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

score 13 · Answer 10

Opera GX

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

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 Con

GX Control not so effective

RAM, CPU and Network limiter is not so effective. See More

Top Pro

Built-in adblocker

Top Con

Opera GX for Android is bad

Slow. 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 Con

Slow opening time

When compared to Edge, Chrome and Brave, this browser starts up a little later due to many features it has inside. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

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

Top Con

May not be for everyone

It's a gaming themed browser with dark and colorful interface. May not be everyones taste. See More

Top Pro

It is good for gaming

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

Very fast

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

Top Pro

GX control

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

It's a free service and unlimited. Not technically VPN itself, but proxy: Perfect and very easy to use, select the continent you want to be connected from, also you give your connection to the Proxy as to contribute and keep it free. Works with BBC and NETFLIX catalog changing. 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

The same company that bought Startpage. See More

score 46 · Answer 11

coc coc

Top Con

Only in Vietnamese

score 70 · Answer 12

Waterfox

Top Con

Owned by an advertising company

Top Pro

Fast

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

Browser Engine:Gecko

Based On:Firefox

License:MPL-2.0

Default Search Engine:Bing, Startpage

Does not phone home. See More

Top Con

Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze

Top Pro

Offers excellent privacy

Top Con

Goodish, but still bad

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

Top Pro

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

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

score 33 · Answer 13

Opera

Top Con

Owned by a Chinese consortium

Top Pro

Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

DazzlingHuehuecoyotl's Experience

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

Specs

Browser Engine:Blink / Chromium core engine

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:EULA

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

Top Con

Built ad-blocker works when it wants

Top Pro

Portable

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

The advertisements are terrible

There are too many advertisements in this browser. 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

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

Cannot stop auto update

Top Pro

Battery saving mode

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

Top Con

Needs user prompt to install from Chrome web store

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

Top Pro

Lightweight

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

Top Con

Unable to sync extensions

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

Top Pro

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

Trash VPN

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

Top Pro

AdBlocker onboard

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

Top Con

No address bar in fullscreen mode

Unlike in Vivaldi. 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

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

Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Con

Fewer extensions

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

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

Built-in currency converter

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

Small RAM usage

Opera uses very little RAM. 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

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

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 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 reader view

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

Quite slow and sometimes unresponsive

It also eats RAM. See More

Top Pro

VPN onboard

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

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

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 Sync

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

Top Con

No menu bar

Top Pro

Touch bar support

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

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 Con

Extension icons not directly moveable

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

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

score 36 · Answer 14

Pale Moon

Top Con

Still contains some spyware

Top Pro

Uses Goanna layout engine

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

ProudXmucane's Experience

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

Specs

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

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

Top Con

Unsecure

Top Pro

Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

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Top Con

Does not contain multi-process sandboxing

Top Pro

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

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

Top Con

Outdated rendering engine

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

Top Pro

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

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 Con

Uses Goanna

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

Top Pro

Customizable

Top Con

Pale Moon is based on very outdated Firefox code

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

Incompetent developers

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Respects your privacy

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

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

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

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Open source

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

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

score 17 · Answer 15

GNU IceCat

Top Con

Not up to date

Top Pro

Protects your freedom, certified free by the FSF

Specs

Browser Engine:Gecko

License:OpenSource

Top Con

Too much bloat

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

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Very slow boot time

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

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Mainly just an old Firefox

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

score 6 · Answer 16

Kingpin Private Browser

Based On:Firefox 75.0

After any browsing session after you exit the app and use a cleaner tool [CCleaner or other] when you start the browser next time, all settings including search engine and security-privacy related is reverted to default. After testing there doesn't seem to be any other cause than that comes from app internally, is programmed deep in core scripts. See More

score 3 · Answer 17

SRWare Iron

Top Con

Not keeping user settings, very unstable, possible backdoor behaviour

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