Internet Explorer vs Slimjet

Downloads safely, quickly, and nicely.

Browser has many system related features. With Internet Explorer you can run certain types of files, without saving them in a non-temporary directory, or you can change proxy settings via a built in Windows dialog window.

IE 11 can fluidly stream 4k videos on Youtube without issue.

Nearly all browsers use the same browser engine as Chrome, Safari, or Firefox; meaning they have the same security-holes as one of the big three. IE doesn't, it has has its own engine.

In other words, even if you find yourself on a website that tries to hack your computer: It's very likely that the the website will only be designed to hack the big three, and wouldn't be able to do anything to IE.

Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium.

Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats.

Has advanced settings to reduce web presence footprint.

Multi-threaded streaming download manager with resume functionality. Interrupted downloads will resume when the program is launched again; number of threads and download location customizable on a per-download basis. Actually downloads Linux ISO's from most popular distributions faster than deluge, utorrent, transmission, etc.

Sign in to back up your extensions and settings, just like always.

Just have to dig into all the Settings and disable them starting with SlimJet search.

Optional buttons such as go to home page, reopen closed tab, go to downloads, go to history and many more.

Allows for downloading both video and extracted mp3 audio, a la Youtube2mp3.

You can still bring it with you on a flash drive, even when you're not on Linux.

Button is linked to cookies, so doesn't work if signed out (for security/privacy), and also doesn't include any additional tracking like a browser extension would (Facebook, Amazon, etc.)

Has a setting to unload tabs from RAM and CPU usage after a customizable threshold number of tabs are open built in.

A lot more configuration options for everything from built in "share to facebook" buttons to options meant to enable optimization on low powered/low RAM systems.