Best web browsers 2021 ... The best web browsers will help you get the most out of the internet, while staying safe and secure on whatever device you use.

https://www.toptenreviews.com ^ | May 05, 2021 | By Nicole Johnston, Ian Stokes

[fightin kentuckian]

I use Brave on my laptop and phone. I’d recommend it after having used several of the ones mentioned in the article.

[Flavious_Maximus]

The CEO of FireFox is a raving leftist. She wants all conservatives thrown in jail.

https://noqreport.com/2021/01/13/mozilla-firefox-planning-to-censor-conservatives-at-the-browser-level/

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/10/mozilla-ceo-says-deplatforming-president-trump-isnt-enough-n1327875

[LuciusDomitiusAutelian]

Absolute garbage. The NSA should have just asked you to wear a microphone and forward all of your snail mail to them. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT pay any attention to this tripe.

Use Tor (slow but pretty secure) and Brave for quicker but less secure browsing.

Use a VPN. Ideally NordVPN based in Panama that has no treaty and will not share logs with the US government. I hate it I can’t trust my own gubmint and hate supporting a non-American company. But, if you want privacy, you need to use protection. If you become a focused target you are screwed anyway. They can crack just about anything.

I don’t know this source but it is absolutely the WORST possible choice of browsers.

[LuciusDomitiusAutelian]

Ok, this is owned by a group called “Purch Group”. Formrerly TechMedia Network, Inc. CEO is Greg Mason. Total ripoff artist and FOS

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/purch-group-inc-buyerzone-doug-llewellyn-greg-mason-luke-callahan/ogden-utah/purch-group-inc-buyerzone-doug-llewellyn-greg-mason-luke-callahan-jamie-davis-d-1324407

[Regulator]

Yeah. Biased is a kind word.

In the software biz I routinely briefed publishers on new releases. Was always amazed to see my marketing hype regurgitated as a “review”. If people only knew how that game is played...

[LuciusDomitiusAutelian]

I would suggest this article be removed as it is absolute commercial/advertising misinfo.

[Bikkuri]

Opera is owned by the Chinese...

[Bikkuri]

Opera is now a Chinese company, after $600 million sale

[Perseverando]

I use Brave on my Windows 10 system and on my iPhone and iPad.

[dayglored]

Dang! Forgot to address #35 to the List!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sorry. I prefer not to be tracked.

[Karoo]

Get a load of this: my 70 yo brother got an HP laptop with Chrome browser; then couple of wks ago he copied a link of some COVID treatment protocol putting the link in icon on desktop ... and shortly after that he went to the icon to review the info and it said something like “cannot be accessed” IOW they took it off! Very upset he was. He bought another computer yesterday... an HP with Firefox

[for-q-clinton]

Where is Brave?

[newfreep]

Thanks for reply - I was not aware.

I’ve spent the last hour installing BRAVE including migrating bookmarks and passwords.

BRAVE seems quite fast and does an excellent job blocking ads.

[for-q-clinton]

Bill Gates is no longer at MS.

[ShadowAce]

Use Tor (slow but pretty secure) and Brave for quicker but less secure browsing.

I don’t know this source but it is absolutely the WORST possible choice of browsers.

Tor is not any better. In fact, I can make a pretty good case that it is worse than most. I refuse to use Tor for anything.

The gov't watches Tor much more closely than they watch regular traffic, and they can watch it pretty close.

[NormsRevenge]

Like tollbooths to the internet trove of stuff, browsers have come a long way.. rendering beautiful thoughts and spreading ugly ones too.

Without a browser, you’re just another sideline bumpkin, a sailboat afloat and adrift in a doldrum. I run mostly on Opera and Chrome these days. Edge and Firefox are installed but never used.

I remember the olden days, Mosaic, Netscape and Explorer too,, 25 years?? wow.. has it been that long.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

There can only be one.......

[Auntie Mame]

Reads like a press release by ..... Microsoft, of course.

[daniel1212]

"1. Microsoft Edge: Best web browser overall Best web browsers: Microsoft Edge "

Rather, it is last in my list.

Along with up-to-date browsers like Vivaldi (you can hack it to get multiple tab rows ) and Firefox Quantum portable (so you can also use legacy Firefox and Waterfox classic (most FF legacy extns work) then I use two profiles of Firefox ESR 59.

For unlike legacy Firefox ESR 59.9 with Tab Mix Plus and a few other extensions. which enabled more key customization than the whole of Edge, which the below critique is aimed at, other browsers of the engines suffer from missing most of the following features that legacy Firefox with extensions provided, such as, :

1. You cannot make it show multiple tab rows (though besides Vivaldi you can with
   Quantum but it takes one [1]of the hacks. And unless the latter is a portable version, it cannot run concurrently with FF ESR since it will basically take it over).

2. You cannot adjust max or min tab width. And the more you open the thinner they get, and all look the same. (except the active tab has an close

3. You cannot close a non-active tab by just placing your cursor on it the top right
   to get a X to click on (so unless you activate it, you need to R. click on it and hit close tab).

4. You cannot enable different colored tabs as with the legacy Colorful Tabs extension (NOT the one in Quantum).
   

5. You cannot choose to open links in other installed browsers via right click.

6. You cannot toggle btwn the most recently accessed tabs using the Ctrl+Tab switch (and its Alt+Tab alternative messes up switching btwn applications).

7. Edge has a very poor spell checker and the dictionary is hard to find in the drive even if you could edit it (as you can with that of Firefox) [Edit: Grammar and Spell Checker is much better than the default Edge one. Also for Chrome and Vivaldi] .

8. You cannot create more than one profile (as far as i know).

9. I know no extension that saves your text box posts such as this, like the Lazarus legacy FF extension did/does. [Edit:Typio Form Recovery. Also for Chrome and Vivaldi

10. MS does not make it easy to set another browser as the default one for all html documents and links (details too long for here).

11. There is no option to keep the Find/Search bar open across tabs (handy in searches), meaning you need to do the search new for every tab.

12. There is no option via right click on a tab to choose “Copy link.”

Since MS writes the software for Windows, than it ought to be able to create a real "utility truck" browser - and which I am sure would become a classic for "power users" - rather than just another minimalist Chrome clone.

However, although using the same engine as Chrome Vivaldi has more options,

Along with up-to-date browsers like Vivaldi (you can hack it to get multiple tab rows ) and Firefox Quantum portable (so you can also use legacy Firefox and Waterfox classic (most FF legacy extns work) then I use two profiles of Firefox ESR 59.

For unlike legacy Firefox ESR 59.9 with Tab Mix Plus and a few other extensions. which enabled more key customization than the whole of Edge, which the below critique is aimed at, other browsers of the engines suffer from missing most of the following features that legacy Firefox with extensions provided, such as, :

1. You cannot make it show multiple tab rows (though besides Vivaldi you can with
   Quantum but it takes one [1]of the hacks. And unless the latter is a portable version, it cannot run concurrently with FF ESR since it will basically take it over).

2. You cannot adjust max or min tab width. And the more you open the thinner they get, and all look the same. (except the active tab has an close

3. You cannot close a non-active tab by just placing your cursor on it the top right
   to get a X to click on (so unless you activate it, you need to R. click on it and hit close tab).

4. You cannot enable different colored tabs as with the legacy Colorful Tabs extension (NOT the one in Quantum).
   

5. You cannot choose to open links in other installed browsers via right click.

6. You cannot toggle btwn the most recently accessed tabs using the Ctrl+Tab switch (and its Alt+Tab alternative messes up switching btwn applications).

7. Edge has a very poor spell checker and the dictionary is hard to find in the drive even if you could edit it (as you can with that of Firefox) [Edit: Grammar and Spell Checker is much better than the default Edge one. Also for Chrome and Vivaldi] .

8. You cannot create more than one profile (as far as i know).

9. I know no extension that saves your text box posts such as this, like the Lazarus legacy FF extension did/does. [Edit:Typio Form Recovery. Also for Chrome and Vivaldi

10. MS does not make it easy to set another browser as the default one for all html documents and links (details too long for here).

11. There is no option to keep the Find/Search bar open across tabs (handy in searches), meaning you need to do the search new for every tab.

12. There is no option via right click on a tab to choose “Copy link.”

Since MS writes the software for Windows, than it ought to be able to create a real "utility truck" browser - and which I am sure would become a classic for "power users" - rather than just another minimalist Chrome clone.

However, although using the same engine as Chrome Vivaldi has more options,