Polarity Browser vs Iridium Browser

According to their own tests Polarity takes up more than 10x less memory than IE, FF or Chrome.

Parallel Sessions allows users to browse the web with different profiles with separate cache, cookies, and history. This enables users to login to multiple accounts to different websites like Facebook.

Polarity browser comes with ad block and Do Not Track built in.

It allows you to customize many things from window color, tab color and text color to window transparency and border size. You can set Background image or use Shuffle from Bing. You can also save the theme, import and export it.

Polarity comes with the standard Inspector for Blink based browsers along with its custom client that works with both Trident and Blink.

Polarity scores 512/555 on the HTML5 test. It is just a couple of points shy of Google Chrome.

• Disable "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors"
• Disable autocomplete through prediction service when typing in Omnibox
• Always send "Do-Not-Track" header
• Network/DNS prediction is disabled by default
• Block third-party cookies by default
• Link auditing (<a ping="...">) is disabled by default
• Fetch plugins list from iridiumbrowser.de where it will be updated regularly
• Site data (cookies, local storage, etc.) is only kept until exit, by default
• Passwords are not stored by default
• Input form autofill is disabled by default
• For IPv6 probes, use a DNS root server instead of Google
• The default search provider is Qwant
• Load "about:blank" on new tabs instead of the currently set search engine and/or promotions.
• Don't report Safe Browsing overrides.
• Don't use autofill download service.
• Disable cookies for safebrowsing background requests.
• Disable the battery status API.

Due to access to the Chrome Web store.

They won't update automatically in the background.

You are in control and you can do almost anything with the code.

Provides installers and packages for the most operating systems and linux distributions.

• Increase RSA keysize to 2048 bits for self-signed certificates (used by WebRTC)
• Generate a new WebRTC identity for each connection instead of reusing identities for 30 days
• Generate a new ECDHE keypair for each WebRTC connection instead of reusing them for multiple connections
• Disable using system-provided plugins (i.e. Java, Flash, etc.)

It is fast since all background services have been disabled or removed.

• Disable background mode
• Disable EV certificates, so they are shown just like "normal" certificates
• Disable Google cloud printing
• Disable Google hot word detection
• Disable Google experiments status check
• Disable Google translation service
• Disable Google promotion fetching
• Disable Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) status check
• Disable Google Now
• Disable automatic update check
• Disable profile-import on first run

Supports all the modern web features.