Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariWhen comparing Puffin vs SRWare Iron, the Slant community recommends Puffin for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Puffin is ranked 38th while SRWare Iron is ranked 50th. The most important reason people chose Puffin is:
Games and videos. Most mobile browsers don't support it.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Renders Flash
Games and videos. Most mobile browsers don't support it.
Pro Seriously fast
In tests performed by PhoneArena, Puffin consistently outperformed any other browser both on synthetic JavaScript speed tests as well as real world cold page loads.
Pro Optional touchpad and cursor
Some websites require hover.
Pro Data savings
Puffin servers can compress pictures before you download them for faster page downloads and data savings for capped data plans.
Pro Loads banned websites
It loads websites which other browsers don't.
Pro Built-in reading mode
Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the content. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience.
Pro No useless bloating garbage
For example, no crypto, embedded blockers, spyware, or ads.
Pro Faster than US, Chinese or Russian products
Pro Can extend privacy configuration by extensions
With right extensions well configurated can be at high privacy level, even better than Brave, because it doesn't have its bloatware.
Recommended: uBlockOrigin + uMatrix + Trace + Font Fingerprint Protection.
Pro Is really and 100% European
Cons
Con Logs browsing history
According to their privacy policy, they log the URLs of all websites visited by their users.
Con Poor privacy
Con No apple mobile version
There is an Android version, but no iOS and ipadOS version yet. Iphone and ipad users are out of luck for that time being.
Con No adblocker
It doesnt have a adblocker unlike the pro version.
Con Blocked in some countries
Puffin is blocked in China, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
Con Rendering flash has ads
Con Not keeping user settings, very unstabile, posible backdoor behaviour
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 setting inclusive search engine and security-privacy related is reverted to default... I tested for 2 weeks and don't find any other cause than that is from app internal, is programmed deep in core scripts.
