With all of the recent changes in web browsers, especially the freshly improved Microsoft
Edge. Instead of just going on our suggestions, we enlisted the assistance of people in and
out of the tech industry.
Let's get started with our ranking of the top five best web browsers for Windows, Mac,
and Linux, looking at the benefits and downsides of each.
At number five is Brave.
This open-source browser was developed using chromium, which is a favorite for many privacy
and security lovers with high performance. It's three times quicker than Chrome by default;
the browser blocks all ads and trackers on all websites. While this is wonderful for
you, as an end-user since it speeds up web pages, it removes the financial incentive
that websites rely on to earn money.
This is where their pay-to-surf business model, which they call "Brave Rewards", comes in.
When users view alternative ads that Brave has placed on web pages, they earn basic attention
tokens known as BATs, which can be distributed to the publishers of the sites you visit as
well.
Some websites would ask you to disable the ad blocker, you just click the Brave Shield
to the right of the address bar to switch off, ads will be blocked for that particular
website alone.
At number 4 spot is Vivaldi,
It was co-founded in 2016 by one of the opera browser's co-founders. Vivaldi is amazing
for customization, with features not available in any other browser, such as tracker protection,
an ad blocker, and end-to-end encryption to secure your data. In addition to tap stacking
and tiling, you can show your tabs, side by side within the browser window, which is considerably
ahead of most other browsers.
Vivaldi lets you choose between light and dark modes based on your operating system
theme. The sidebar is another place to rapidly access the websites you visit frequently;
you can drag this out to make the window bigger.
Just like most other chromium-based browsers, there's a useful screenshot feature in the
lower right to record an entire page or a specified portion. Extensions can be added
straight from the chrome web store. A fun new addition to the browser is an arcade game
that you can play both online and offline. To play it, go to the start page, choose the
game icon in the bottom right, and click to begin. The keys required to play will display
once the game has loaded.
Coming in at number three is Microsoft Edge
It is a chromium-based web browser that is faster and has numerous useful features, such
as a new shopping tool that may assist you in saving money. It also does not consume
as many system resources as some of the others on our list, and it has privacy and security
measures to help you secure your data online.
At the top of the start page, you have a Bing search bar with your favorite sites for quick
access. And the rest of the page is filled up with news feeds which you personalize according
to your choice. On this page, you can configure your topic of interest that appears in your
news feed.
Read Aloud is the feature I like the most, to enable this feature you need to move your
cursor to the beginning of the section and then right-click and select read aloud. You
can pause or play using the Read Aloud Control Bar here. You can change speed and voice here.
Coming in at number two is Mozilla Firefox.
It's open-source and not based on chromium. Firefox is a feature-packed browser with a
picture in picture mode, a built-in screen capture tool, and reader mode.
It's also very highly customizable with themes and extensions to enhance your experience
and a dark mode to give your eyes a break.
Let's look into some of those cool features, to take a screenshot, go to the right of the
address bar, select the three-dot icon and take a screenshot. Here you have a couple
of options: you can choose to save visible or save a full page or you can left-click
and drag to select a region and then save it to your computer.
Another feature worth mentioning is the reader mode icon to the right of the address bar
and enabling it, you'll notice a cleaner look with no images and ads. You can even change
the font style, size and even switch to a dark mode. You'll also find a read-aloud mode
similar to Microsoft Edge.
In the top spot coming at number one is Google Chrome.
Why do people like it, surely it can't be that great for privacy and it's also a resource
hog? It's terrible when it comes to privacy and it's one of the worst browsers for battery
life with laptops.
People use it because it's easy to use and offers excellent cross-platform support allowing
you to sync your data such as bookmarks, passwords, and other stuff across multiple devices.
Perhaps one of the biggest reasons people use chrome is the largest collection of browser
extensions available to enhance user experience.
If this is the case for you using Chrome, I would suggest using one of these browsers
like Brave, Microsoft Edge, or Vivaldi which all support Chrome web store extensions.
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