Web Browsers reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 246 Reddit reviews across 25 subreddits and 29 posts to rank the best Web Browsers brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/linuxquestions, r/mac, r/browsers, r/privacy, r/applehelp. Top-rated brands include Mozilla (4.1/5), Safari (4.2/5), Firefox (3.9/5).

Stats

Reviews246

Subreddits25

Posts29

Brands79

Products47

Top communities

r/linuxquestions57 r/mac55 r/browsers37 r/privacy20 r/applehelp10

246 reviews from

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By Brand

By Product

Mozilla

4.1

(35)

"Firefox, sync works great if you are using several different platforms. uBlock Orgin also works."

"Try Firefox Developer Edition, you might not even need postman using it."

"I use Firefox instead - it's open source, free, and managed by a non-profit organization."

"Firefox is the only correct answer"

"You got Firefox."

"Firefox."

"Firefox is always a good choice!"

"These days it's Firefox + uBlock Origin."

"You can use the extensions of the desktop version, and with unlock forget any advertising that annoys."

"I personally prefer Firefox to Safari (less customizable) or Chrome (no privacy). I use the Firefox containers feature all the time."

Safari

4.2

(18)

"Safari for over 20 years."

"Safari. The connections between all devices are king."

"Safari. Minimal and fast."

"Safari and brave are both very good"

"Safari is excellent. Quick, low system requirements, and well-integrated."

"Safari for all personal use. I have not seen any compelling reason to use anything else."

"Works really well, Handoff feature between iPhone and Mac, extension support through AppStore"

"I use Safari, it works great, very lightweight."

"I've switched to Safari except for my google services. Safari is a safer browser and stops trackers"

"I like Safari for secure sites like banks, online shopping and paying bills with Apple Pay."

Firefox

3.9

(15)

"A recent audit by a German cyber security agency has recommended Firefox as being the most secure browser"

"Firefox with a css theme"

"If I have to choose FF I will go with the nightly build since it is actually better than stable"

"If you need decent adblocking on android, you have to consider firefox or brave."

"I use firefox stable with ublock origin. I know firefox android was quite slow in the past, but nowadays it is really fast."

"Firefox is used for testing as well."

"Firefox all day"

"Firefox and Opera."

"Firefox and Opera GX are my go-to recommendations."

"FireFox"

Brave

4.0

(14)

"I use Brave."

"That with pihole = 0 ads, hardly ever."

"I would recommend brave, because it has great performance"

"BRAVE is superior"

"Brave and mull"

"If you need decent adblocking on android, you have to consider firefox or brave."

"Bromite and Brave are the fastest based on my experience on Android."

"Brave Browser is nice too."

"Brave is faster and uses less battery than Chrome."

"I also keep brave around as a backup if a web page won't render."

Google

3.3

(15)

"It works perfectly with Google apps and Microsoft apps as it’s based on Chromium."

"Chrome"

"It syncs nicely with my multiple Google accounts and is fast."

"I use mainly chrome, The new 90 version release helps save more battery on my mac."

"Mainly safari if I'm on low battery for work etc, but 90% of the time I use chrome."

"Chromium serves as the upstream for Chrome, which is an important distinction."

"Ungoogled-chromium is better in terms of privacy when compared to Firefox."

"Chrome is not so bad, but has some privacy concerns."

"I use Chrome for work due to website compatibility. I might try to switch though as I’ve found compatibility is not as critical as advertised and it’s a huge RAM hog."

"I am using Chrome with efficiency and hardware acceleration turned off. Seems ok at the moment."

Brave Software

4.5

(10)

"The only answer is Brave. No tracking. No ads."

"I use brave because it has a hand off feature for all my other devices(Windows, Android, Mac, iOS), aggressive ad blocking, and aggressive anti-tracking."

"Safari and brave are both very good"

"Brave. It has vertical tabs, tab groups, and a really great, built in ad blocker."

"I stan Brave. All the benefits of Chrome but with privacy"

"Seems like a slew of "Brave" or "Firefox" answers."

"I don't need to, I have Brave."

"I use Brave and Vivaldi browsers."

"Brave for sites that are too aggressive with the ads."

"Brave if you don’t want to use chrome and blocks YouTube ads."

Vivaldi

4.5

(8)

"Se me hace un navegador bastante rápido, ligero y seguro."

"Vivaldi can do exactly that."

"Vivaldi ftw"

"Vivaldi. It's incredible now."

"Build in tracker and ad blocker, efficient and customizable. Love it."

"Vivaldi which has a ton of features."

"Vivaldi"

"Yeah vivaldis adblocker on anroid is not so effective."

Arc

4.0

(5)

"I tried to switch but the smooth video playback and handling a lot of tabs is very smooth in m1 air in Arc"

"Arc for everyday"

"I personally use Arc for a couple of month and it weirdly fits my style of working and using a browser heavily for this really good."

"Orion or Arc"

"Edge, arc, orion"

Pale Moon

4.0

(5)

"Pale Moon or nothing."

"PM is way more secure than FF (in reality, not fanboy opinion)."

"Lightweight alternative to Firefox."

"Use Ungoogled-Chromium or Pale Moon, OP."

"Recommending Palemoon as a security browser would be irresponsible until Palemoon gets a proper independant security audit."

#10

Orion

4.3

(4)

"Orion is easily the best."

"Orion for a webkit engine with extension support"

"Edge, arc, orion"

"Orion or Arc"

#11

qutebrowser

4.3

(4)

"Qutebrowser is my favorite! It's my daily driver."

"It is very minimal, but doesn't have support for extensions."

"Qutebrowser is a good alternative."

"Try qutebrowser"

#12

Opera

4.0

(4)

"It's chrome based but as an Opera user, I can't say a bad thing about it."

"I used Chrome for a long time but just switched to Opera for VPN."

"Opera has a built in VPN and I like the way it looks. Been using it more lately."

"Opera"

#13

Apple

4.0

(4)

"Safari is actually a really good browser."

"On iOS for now, they all use WebKit so not many differences."

"High performance, medium privacy, weak plugins."

"For the 99% Safari."

#14

Chrome

2.7

(6)

"Chrome is improving in resource management."

"Chrome. I feel like Firefox would be better but I'm too lazy to actually switch."

"Chrome with a butt ton of extensions"

"There's nothing wrong with Chrome!"

"Least Private: Chrome"

"Side loading Chrome is a risky option."

#15

Ungoogled Chromium

3.8

(4)

"Ungoogled-chromium"

"I also use ungoogled-chromium for testing."

"Use Ungoogled-Chromium or Pale Moon, OP."

"I am using ungoogled chromium right now and hoping for the best"

#16

Tor Browser

4.0

(3)

"What functionality are you looking for in a browser that Tor Browser with some Firefox plugin(s) slapped on it doesn't provide?"

"TOR Browser would be pretty fine in most trivial cases."

"You could try TOR."

#17

Epic

4.0

(3)

"Most Private: Epic browser"

"I like it. I use it regularly. It's a good, solid 2nd tier browser."

"Epic browser. Very privacy focused."

#18

Privacy Browser

4.0

(3)

"Privacy browser (13.9mb). Available at f-droid & play store"

"Privacy browser"

"The best privacy browser is to use public libraries to browse the web, ensuring your ISP doesn't track your activities."

#19

Waterfox

3.7

(3)

"I've had good experiences with Waterfox."

"Have you tried waterfox?"

"Struggled with the settings just like with Waterfox a year ago."

#20

Opera GX

3.3

(3)

"I use Opera GX"

"Firefox and Opera GX are my go-to recommendations."

"Opera GX and Microsoft Edge probably win that category due to being basically bloatware with full of unnecessary features."

#21

Falkon

3.3

(3)

"That's Falkon nowadays"

"Falkon?"

"Falkon is a minimalist browser that is lesser known but offers a unique experience."

#22

Midori

3.3

(3)

"Midori is a great open alternative that respects your privacy."

"Midori Browser, a built-in Ad Blocker however the tab management would be weird and will take awhile for anyone to adapt to it"

"I wanted to like Midori, but it didn't perform well."

#23

Chromium

5.0

(2)

"Very quick with adblock"

"Use Chromium (it isn't a fork of Chrome, but the code base of it)."

#24

Lynx

3.0

(3)

"Lynx (text based)"

"Lynx w3m"

"Lynx"

#25

Iceraven

4.5

(2)

"A large number of available extensions and features that no other mobile browser has."

"Iceraven"

#26

Basilisk

4.5

(2)

"Basilisk is really good (source: I develop it and use it every day)"

"I'm trying Basilisk right now and enjoy it"

#27

Bromite

4.0

(2)

"Bromite and Brave are the fastest based on my experience on Android."

"Bromite is a great option for Android."

#28

Fennec

4.0

(2)

"What I use is Fennec, which is basically Firefox without the branding and tracking."

"Fennec is another good choice for Android."

#29

Mull

4.0

(2)

"Brave and mull"

"If you want uBlock then Mull is the best option."

#30

Samsung

2.7

(3)

"Samsung browser. For adblocking, you have to download an integration separately though."

"Samsung Internet Browser?"

"Keeps crashing on my Pixel, making it useless."

#31

Links

3.5

(2)

"Links or linx"

"My favorite browser is elinks but it doesn't seem to support javascript."

#32

GNU

3.0

(2)

"GNU icecat is a Firefox based browser by the gnu project."

"IceCat"

#33

Google Chrome

3.0

(2)

"And why Chrome is not an option if we're talking about YouTube?"

"Google changed Youtube to only work well with Chrome(ium) while making it harder for everyone else"

#34

Microsoft

3.0

(2)

"Edge can do this with Workspaces."

"The user expresses frustration about the submission of Internet Explorer."

#35

Edge

2.5

(2)

"Edge"

"Edge is not too good either in terms of adblocking. it uses a weakened AdBlocker."

#36

GNU IceCat

2.5

(2)

"GNU icecat is a Firefox based browser by the gnu project."

"Failed to install GNU IceCat, which hasn't been updated in a year and a half."

#37

Microsoft Edge

2.5

(2)

"Edge, arc, orion"

"Opera GX and Microsoft Edge probably win that category due to being basically bloatware with full of unnecessary features."

#38

Jags House

5.0

(1)

"Excellent resource for setting up internet on older systems."

#39

KDE

5.0

(1)

"KDE Falkon is pretty cool."

#40

DuckDuckGo

5.0

(1)

"DuckDuckGo Browser is a great tool for privacy-focused browsing."

#41

Aloha

5.0

(1)

"Aloha Browser offers free ad blocking and VPN, making it a great choice for iOS and Android users."

#42

HP

5.0

(1)

"Opera is the only one I got to work for my HP 214."

#43

Graphic River

5.0

(1)

"Graphic River is great for this stuff"

#44

Palemoon

5.0

(1)

"I love palemoon and am using it to write this comment."

#45

Min Browser

5.0

(1)

"Min Browser offers a fast and secure browsing experience."

#46

Soul

4.0

(1)

"Soul browser"

#47

Pawxy

4.0

(1)

"Pawxy browser is the best!! So many features it's unbelievable."

#48

Kiwi

4.0

(1)

"Kiwi browser"

#49

Soul, Kiwi, Bromite

4.0

(1)

"Soul, kiwi and Bromite"

#50

FOSS

4.0

(1)

"Try foss browser"

#51

Waterfox, LibreWolf

4.0

(1)

"Waterfox, librewolf"

#52

Chrome, Firefox

4.0

(1)

"Otherwise Firefox."

#53

Puppy Linux

4.0

(1)

"Pale Moon is pretty good and very lightweight."

#54

Icab

4.0

(1)

"Old versions of IE and Netscape are still usable, with Icab providing them readily."

#55

Fulguris

4.0

(1)

"Fulguris is a great alternative to Lightning Browser."

#56

Cromite

4.0

(1)

"Cromite is an open-source browser and a fork of Bromite, offering great features."

#57

LibreWolf

4.0

(1)

"LibreWolf looks almost exactly the same as Firefox and it spoofed my system to show as Windows."

#58

ungoogled-chromium

4.0

(1)

"Ungoogled-chromium is a solid choice."

#59

MPV

4.0

(1)

"My solution was (and is) to use MPV to watch directly."

#60

Preview

4.0

(1)

"Preview does well in speed, data usage, and battery usage."

#61

Lagrange

4.0

(1)

"Lagrange is great"

#62

Amfora

4.0

(1)

"Amfora and Bombadillo are also nice"

#63

Bombadillo

4.0

(1)

"Amfora and Bombadillo are also nice"

#64

Mullvad

4.0

(1)

"Mullvad browser if you want Adblock built-in."

#65

SigmaOS

4.0

(1)

"SigmaOS if you want something arc-like but built with Safari’s engine"

#66

Bazzite

4.0

(1)

"I have a gaming PC running Bazzite (Linux), so I like having one browser that's essentially cross compatible (and UBlock Origin is essentially for me)"

#67

Samsung Internet

4.0

(1)

"Samsung Internet Browser w/ NextDNS (If configured) would be a great experience as well"

#68

Ecosia

4.0

(1)

"Ecosia 😊 it plants trees!"

#69

Chromium, IceWeasel

3.0

(1)

"Chromium and IceWeasel."

#70

Icecat, Badwolf

3.0

(1)

"* Icecat * Badwolf"

#71

Kiwi Browser

3.0

(1)

"Kiwi Browser, it has extension support like Firefox"

#72

Dolphin

3.0

(1)

"Dolphin"

#73

Web Browser

2.0

(1)

"Not great reviews and hasn't been updated in almost two years."

#74

Odd Browser

2.0

(1)

"Not great reviews and hasn't been updated in almost two years."

#75

Webkit

2.0

(1)

"I don't think You're Tubed behaves well on anything that isn't blessed by the Chrappium heritage."

#76

Zetakey

2.0

(1)

"It's very resource intensive."

#77

Kodi

2.0

(1)

"Could try and set things up in Kodi too, but it's more hassle and less fun."

#78

Internet Explorer 9

2.0

(1)

"Least Private: Any Microsoft (IE9, Edge)"

#79

Google Docs

1.0

(1)

"Anything that isn't QtWebEngine and/or latest Firefox, will not work with Google Docs."

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