When comparing Waterfox vs Bromite, the Slant community recommends Bromite for most people. In the question“What are the best browsers?” Bromite is ranked 13th while Waterfox is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Bromite is:
Installation size 88 to 105 MB (depends upon OEM manufacturer & usage by user).
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Fast
Even faster than firefox.
Pro Offers excellent privacy
Does not phone home.
Pro Never ever freezes
Highly reliable.
Pro Works with Firefox addons
Firefox 56 add-ons compatibility, including unsigned XUL extensions and complete themes.
Pro Less bloated than Firefox
Pocket, telemetry, data collection, startup profiling is removed.
Pro Extremely customizable
It has almost every setting imaginable.
Pro Multiple add-on support
Pro Works with major streaming services
Includes widevine plugin and suitable user agent for viewing major streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video.
Pro App optimization
Installation size 88 to 105 MB (depends upon OEM manufacturer & usage by user).
Pro Respects your privacy better than all other Chromium based browsers
DNS over https (require more flexibility if possible).
Pro Optimizated RAM usage
Average (depends upon web page complexity).
Pro Excellent bookmarks management
Import & Export Bookmarks, very few browsers have this rare functionality.
Pro Up to date with the Chromium releases
Pro Developer options
Can be enabled.
Pro Browser aside app
Browser has “optional (additional app)” functionality of acting as SYSTEM WEBVIEW support (but requires rooting Android).
Pro Customizable adblock filters
Pro AV1 codec support
Pro Allows playing videos in background tabs and disable pause on switching tabs
Pro Shows warnings for TLSv1.0/TLSv1.1 pages
Pro Removes click-tracking and AMP from search results
Pro Supports DNS over HTTPS
Help in detail by guide on "Enter a correctly formatted url" (require more flexibility if possible), check clarification for more.
Cons
Con Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze
Need to do something about it.
Con Owned by an advertising company
The same company that bought Startpage/ Ixquick, System 1. This is a company that gathers information about what you look at and do, analyzes and profiles you, and then sells it off to third parties.
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.
Con Still contains spyware
Default homepage is spyware and searches are enabled by default.
Con Big target for hackers
Bromite is a big target for hackers because it's a Chromium fork.
Con Not secure
Bromite lacks ad blocking and other privacy protecting features.
Con Eats up battery life
Because it's very fast, which puts pressure on the RAM & hence ultimately on battery.
Con Bromite = Google Chrome
It uses Chrome for the query.
