What is the Fastest Internet Browser in 2022 | Speed Test
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- I don't like ANY modern internet browser, but I installed every major one to compare them. Here were the results from those tests. .
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I switched to firefox about a year ago just because i wanted to get away from google. Now i cant see myself using any other browser it has been a great experience.
The "Multi Account-Containers" Extension is the biggest selling point for me though 😁 And FF is a must for WebDev :)
Overall i like the UX in Brave more, but i cant live without the containers.
I did the same, but I switched away from Firefox to Brave after their CEO's woke statements and the fact that are in Google's pocket (their main revenue source). Brave is the winner for me because of its privacy features (btw in disabled the crypto stuff but I appreciate that unique business model).
@@TheVertical92 I think Brave has effectively the same functionality as Firefox's containers with its domain and cookie isolation
Firefoxes sandbox is incomparable too braves, brave uses js by default
Meaning if you use the tor private browsing
You’re actually asking too have scripts being ran locally (that is if they bypass sandbox) but no-one knows the integrity of braves sandbox. Everyone knows how hard it is too break fire foxes
True i have been using chrome for a decade. I switched to firefox and i couldn't go back. I dont why so much hate to firefox these days
I've been using Firefox for many years now. The speed has never been an issue to me (despite what many articles have said, the real life differences between speed in browsers IMO are too small to notice without a direct comparison). What did irritate me was the switch away from Adobe for RUclips (I had a lot of trouble playing videos for a long time) and some stability issues watching videos (which thankfully are now long in the past). Generally speaking it is the only browser that allows me to still use a traditional pull down menu system which I find far more intuitive rather than struggling with the more modern approach of just hiding everything.
Firefox on Linux seems to be a reasonable alternative given its strong performance on that OS
Firefox also performs like a native app in all Linux desktop environments. I can't say that about Chrome or Vivaldi which have their own window decorations. I also have performance issues with Chrome playing videos while overlapping other window. I love FF in Linux, but not on Windows or MacOS.
@@bstar777777 It's a pity they don't make it possible to create webapps
@@fernandobernardo6324 They don't (with something like Electron), but the "Web Apps" app package allows you to create a native looking application with Firefox as the backend. The plus' are that it remembers the windows dimensions and the cookies/cache are unique to the app instance. It also works with extensions.
@@bstar777777 my microphone stop working after 1 minute when using some website that requires mic or some extension that uses mic in chrome for linux. why is that it doesn't happen in firefox for linux .in windows chrome works fine
@@akhlaq510 I would never enable my mic in the browser. I know Google Meet uses it, but I would probably use Chrome specifically for Meet (if I absolutely needed to use it). I don't know your particular issue, but I have strict rules on my PC where mic is enabled.
So basically all the browsers are faster and better in Linux compared to Windows.
I wonder if that depends on distribution and desktop.
@@Jel.Awesh.M Could be. But most major & popular distributions should be fast
@@sifatullah7568 It depends on your base memory usage. Some examples..
Ubuntu's Gnome settings vs Stock Gnome settings
Garuda's KDE settings vs Kubuntu KDE settings.
DesktopEnvironment vs WindowManager(only)
Thats why the tests performed better on Linux. He was using a close-to-stock kde experience, so it isn't as memory heavy. As Windows is Windows, the tests were lower than "Linux's" score.
Yes, I've used Linux before and oh boy the browser is so much responsive than those at Windows.
Honestly nowadays I switch between Chrome, Chromium, Firefox and Brave and I've never really noticed any real difference in performance (also on some 10years old machines), they are all more than fine performance-wise. My choice at this point is more about extensions and privacy
Check out Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox.
You stole my icon 🤣
@@babilinx7969 lol sorry, in my defense i'm a parrot lover and that one is a really beautiful parrot!
@@rfdiego777 that's true, it is really beautiful
I want to see dilo's web performance now, lol!
I use Vivaldi since a long time because of the customization possibilities, the extras like Vivaldi translator and because it works on almost every platform. The sync option works also very well between devices. But I also like Falkon, Epiphany and Firefox.
Doesn't Firefox works on every platform, too? Isn't Firefox the only competition left in the world to the Google based Chromium? Shouldn't we all be supporting the little man to reduce the power of monopolies? Having said that, thank you for NOT using Google Chrome or MS Edge. :)
@@tyz7825 and now the little man is doing shady business with Facebook (Meta)
@@purplep3466 That's why we have to support forks like LibreWolf.
@@purplep3466 It seems like Facebook is buying into Mozilla's experience and good reputation regarding privacy and staying mostly clean. Maybe in return they can push Firefox' popularity in future. There is a chance this does not end badly. But it can of course go the other way as well. Interesting times.
@@of.f.course hahahahahahaha! Oh wait you’re serious?
Firefox is damn fast with proper settings. Also they're the only ones offering addons even on android..
What do you mean by proper settings? I'm curious
What settings are you talking about? Could you share please?
Firefox has gotten better that much is true but chrome is still the fastest browser it's also the most consistent browser!
No, Yandex offers full(!) Chrome Extension support on Android. Compared to it, Firefox has very, very few approved extensions. But it has a growing extension support. That's fine. All the other browsers don't have real support for extensions.
#3 what settings please?
I stick with firefox, even though it's less performant. The only way websites will get better optimization for non-chromium browsers is if those browsers become more more commonplace.
In some kind of twisted King Midas metaphor, everything Google touches turns to Chrome. As for me, I've used Mozilla Firefox all the way back to Netscape Navigator.
My take on Browser performance tests is that unless you are running very heavy browser applications or the specific browser under consideration is severely lacking, performance is perhaps the least important of all metrics to worry about.
honestly Internet speed is more important when it comes to load times. basically just use firefox
Except for when you’re using multiple tabs, which basically everyone does.
@@Immigrantlovesamerica multiple tabs is far more of a network and RAM issue, not compute. Unless you're also doing that on a low power SBC like the Raspberry Pi.
@@Xankill3r performance is performance
Thank you Chris for your excellent research!
Who want to use chromium based browser anyway?
Firefox all the way, EFF add-on and proper settings you got a winner 😃😃😃
Yup, I use Firefox with Arkenfox-user.js file to modify configs for more privacy & security
How about vanilla chromium? Also, internet explorer is obviously the clear winner 😆
@@motoryzen mosaic is the best
Internet EXPLODER! And there are chromium-based versions like SlimJet that remove or turn off some of Google's spyware stuff.
@@markh.6687 or just ungoogled chromium
@@michalski9141 True.
I tend to go back and forth between Vivaldi and Firefox (Running EndeavourOS/Gnome) I like the look of Firefox and it's open source, but I prefer Vivaldi overall (features/customizability/compatibility) and it works on a few sites firefox has occasionally had problems with, most likely the chromium backend (which i didn't like about Vivaldi) helps there.
Vivaldi uses Chrome's rendering engine, but not its telemetry, privacy and data collection policy.
Vivaldi & Firefox...A winning combination!
Beside, I try to ignore big "bullies" (Google & Microsoft) as much as possible, completely avoiding their browsers & other services (apart of RUclips).
I truly hate these corporations...
@@mondo_burrito you know when you fire it up for the first time you have 3 install modes right, don't remember what they're called but you can keep it simple or install all the features...
I kept it in the middle and the rest is easy to customize and the menus are easy to navigate
I've always used Firefox, and I use it on Mint. I like that I can. pretty much customize it to what suits me best. As far as speed goes, I have pretty good internet speed, and don't see any, meaningful, difference between them. I do have Brave downloaded on one of my laptops, and do use it occasionally, but Chrome, and pretty much anything associated with Google, or MS, leave a really sour taste in my mouth. And before you say it, I do understand that Brave is just based on Chrome, but still.
So, my go to is Firefox. I don't really have any major complaints, although I'm not to happy when they update it and any extension I have loaded has to be reconfigured or doesn't work the same as in previous versions (Open In Sidebar, being one of them. Probably one of my favorite extensions). I'm kind of a minimalist, don't like clutter or nonessential buttons/tabs on my browser. I like only what I use, and if I need it I can add it later, and if I don't need it, there is no room for it; just takes away space for what I do like and need.
What I'm not sure of though, is you say is you have problems with all of them in one sense or another. I'm curious on what your perfect browser would be?
No, Brave is not based on Chrome. It is based on Chromium. There is a difference. Check it out.
I really recommend you give Librewolf a try. Is a Firefox fork with a bunch of privacy tweaks and it comes with ublock origin installed out of the box.
And it’s fast!!! I think mine glitched on the speedometer and said infinity. Lol
Thank you, I am looking into it. If it can run the firefox extensions, it's worth a shot.
Just dont use some random browsers, they could be rly dangerous, stealing your privacy data and much more…
@@ketketvauvau Is not a random browser.
I mostly use Vivaldi and sometimes Firefox. Opera used to be my main browser until a few years ago, but stopped using it because of its new owners.
I used Brave regularly for many years. Firefox, sometimes. A month ago, I tried MS Edge, and was pleasently surprised for its speed. Also, Edge offers a convenient user experience. I use Linux, of course.
Quick question Chris, since you are used to a Chromium like experience but don't want Google, why not try other forks besides Brave?
Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium, etc... They're all based on Chromium with re-enforced privacy, and they're built by the community so there is no crypto or whatnot shady deals.
I am definitely gonna give them a try
why does Iridium still use google as a search engine? edit if i don't need logins i use librewolf
I normally use the Brave Browser on Arch Linux, but I also installed the Edge Browser as a sideline and it's actually 20 points faster than Brave with the identical extensions. Funny that a browser from Microsoft is so fast on Linux.
I used to be a Firefox guy, but it was kinda becoming lacking in features I wanted in a browser, that's when I found Vivaldi. When it comes to features, it's the best I found so far (tab grouping, page tiling, built in mouse gestures, the customization, the ability to take screenshots of entire webpages), but the performance is stil definitely lacking, especially with RUclips where it tends to randomly hang for seconds. Dunno if they'll ever fix that since it's been going on for months now.
Tab grouping is the one killer feature I wish firefox had. I still use firefox to this day because it's what I've used as long as I've been using computers for the most part, but when I got my friend to try firefox, he loved it at first but just had to switch back to brave because of tab grouping. Firefox does have trackpad gestures but only on mac btw. Screenshots are also great on firefox: you can do screenshots of a full page, just the view, or a selection and choose to either copy it to your clipboard or just save it entirely. Also, what type of customization are you referring to?
@@cidsx For example rearranging the extension icons. I don't have to go into a customization menu like with Firefox, just Shift + left mouse button drag and it's done. I can place the tab bar whereever I want in the window (left, right, top or bottom), I can select what kind of tab stacking I want (compact, two-level, accordion or disabled), I can disable the Close buttons on the tabs so that I can't accidentlly press them when switching between the tabs (I have closing tabs set to the middle mouse button), you can customise the mouse gestures, you can set up a button to go back to the previously viewed tab, you can enable tab popup thumbnails so you can see what's actually open in that tab. Just small little things like these that you don't even think of, but makes using the browser so much more intuitive and convinient.
Maybe Firefox has some of these features now, tho I didn't fiind them when taking a quick look just now.
@@TarnishPrower Interesting. Personally I don't find myself customizing frequently enough that I need that shift+left mouse convenience. Many of those things can be changed using css themes but are admittedly harder to do.
I think that I'll have to give Vivaldi a try.
@@cidsx Firefox does support Tab groups. It used to support this as an official/built in extension, but once the feature matured, support was relegated to regular extensions. There are nowadays a number of different extensions that implements tab groups, each with slightly different take on the idea, you'll likely want to shop around and see which one you liked best.
Even better than Tab Group IMO is Container Tab. Containers not only allows you to organise tabs, but also becomes your security boundary when you visit sites in different context. Or you may just use it for multiple logins.
@@yvrelna How do you get tab groups? Tree-style tab isn't what I'm looking for, I want to be able to collapse tabs in the tab bar and things like that.
And container tabs are absolutely fantastic and I can not live without it and I use it daily. But, they're different imo. You can't group them and collapse them and really organize them. You can just see a little colored line above each tab representing what group they're in. Which is fine, but not really the same as tab groups.
At last one honest review I got in years about these benchmark tests. I have used and checked almost all of the browsers myself because articles on internet shows edge as fastest almost everywhere. Great work Chris 👍
Keep up these kind of honest review that's why I follow and like your channel. ✌️
Firefox has some compatibility issues, and its PDF text search has a 7-year-old bug in it that causes it to miss matching text.
Brave lacks autoscrolling on Linux, and extensions cannot fully restore it. Brave also lacks persistent user agent spoofing without extensions (many of which are horribly outdated), though your OS might come with settings to reduce the amount of info the browser can reveal about your system.
The best privacy does still come from Firefox, but I go with Brave because it’s a bit less annoying.
I've used Firefox for literally years now, it's fast (for me), reliable, customizable and FOSS. Just turn off pocket, studies, telemetry and don't overload with enabled extensions. I use it with DuckDuckGo as the Search Engine.
I did this test with the following browsers: brave, chrome, firefox and opera on an incognito page with everything closed in the background and here are my results:
brave 140
chrome 117.2
firefox 121
opera 133
so for me, brave is still the best. one thing I did not understand is why opera gets such a high score when it actually takes the longest to complete the test.
thanks! same for me brave is the fastest and not to mention it uses the least resources
I'm using Firefox. I do send my tabs from one device to another relatively frequently but the Linux performance leaves a lot to be desired.
On my netbook where Twitch streams would max out the CPU and freeze from time to time needing a reboot under Windows, the linux version fares better. Doesn't max out the CPU and doesn't freeze but instead it drops frames. A lot of them. But so does Vivaldi so I can't really choose a chromium base and expect better.
Stranger though, when I use Linux Firefox on my desktop it runs smooth in a single window taking about 10% of my GPU but when I open another window with another Twitch stream for example, both streams start dropping frames like crazy and my GPU utilization is at ... also 10%, it never goes above. Funily enough on Vivaldi a single window with a stream will drop frames but opening two of them in separate windows they BOTH run smoothly.
If anyone has the same issue and is wondering what my workaround is: I run one window with a regular Firefox and another window with a developer Firefox. These are separete programs so they don't communicate and both windows will run the stream smoothly. That's what I do on Linux, under Windows Firefox runs perfectly fine all the time.
Vivaldi for me. yeah sure its a bit big boned, but i do use a lot of their features. It would be nice if the creators can make it so that the browser sets up and downloads only the features you need.
The main thing i like about it is the mouse controls. Right click + scroll lets me scroll through tabs like a windows alt + tab shortcut. The only thing i dislike is chromium; but that's also a strength of the browser as you should theoretically get edge/chrome-like browsing plus all those extensions.
Looks like the world needs a Titus Browser
Speed is one thing, but how secure are each browser?
use librewolf if u like a secure browser!
@@oneanime5551 oh never heard of that thx for the tip
"i did it in both linux and windows" *me remembering some people dont even have mac in the equation* lol
I've been using Chrome for a number of years now. My only gripe is that it takes the rest of the week to get rolling. Once it's up and running it's pretty fast. I'll stick with it because of my personalisations.
I see Blitz on your taskbar, we've lost him boys.
I use edge on windows, and Firefox on linux. Power of defaults.
To me they all do the same job.
When your connection speed is low the browser is no longer the issue.
All browsers have the same speed.
If you want to talk about which browser is the best,than its Vivaldi.
Been using it for a year now.
The best thing about it is printing webpages in PDF format.
Chris: "Before we get started, I do not show favoritism, I hate you all equally for different reasons"
faster website rendering on all browsers is one of the very few noticeable improvements going from Windows 10 to 11. I saw such a difference, it was the only reason I upgraded my devices.
I use Vivaldi mainly for its functionality and customization and above all for the ease of managing bookmarks. I don't care about absolute speed as the ease of use I mentioned above still translates into a faster overall speed of use for me.
I am a Die Hard Fiorfox user. I do not care wht the folks who created this browser do in their lives, I say you do your thing, I will do my thing
Just ran the benchmark on ff/linux (swaywm, compositor based web rendering), and it genuinely gave me a score of 'infinity'
1996 - 2005 Internet explorer
2006 - 2010 Forefox
2011 - now Chrome.
I use Firefox as my main browser in part because NoScript is great, but mostly because of the "Portable Firefox" implementation, it makes backing it up totally mindless.
My speedometer results under Windows 10:
Edge 119 ( 1 tab open)
Vivaldi 138 (1 tab open)
Brave 146 (1 tab open)
Firefox 153 (4,506 tabs open)
Firefox 155 (1 tab open)
I’ve used Firefox since it’s earliest alpha builds as Phoenix, and Netscape before that. I’ll continue to use it until i find a good reason not to. I’ve always used other browsers for different tasks though. Vivaldi is my current secondary browser.
It very much depends on what hardware are you running. Im getting a 356 on Brave and a 294 on Firefox. Arch - Hyperland, R7 7700x, iGPU.
As speedometer has "DOM" in red, it probably means the tests are based on DOM operations.
Chromium-based browsers are expected to win because the Javascript engine in them, V8, is faster than other implementations.
NodeJS was born exactly because JavaScript became fast enough to run in the server after V8 was created.
Firefox is not damn slow, but its JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, is not as fast as V8.
I don't how to classify rendering engines here, except for Midori's situation.
Midori, for me, was really expected to be the slowest, because it is based on Webkit. Webkit really really really sucks.
It may seem surprising because Chromium's Blink was a fork from Webkit.
The issue is Webkit is maintained by Apple and Apple doesn't give a shit for the web. Amazing browser APIs take years to appear in Webkit, or even never do, as push notifications for PWAs. iOS only has Safari and denies any browser implementations in the App Store (Chrome for iOS is forced to use Safari's webview).
Apple doesn't want smart, high performant browsers made with Webkit, because app-like experiences in the browser would take app manufacturers out of the AppStore. They then say publicly something like: "we didn't implement those 16 APIs because of privacy concerns".
In the Chrome Developers channel, they used to make a lot of performance experiments and Safari was always the worst. Firefox even beat Chrome sometimes.
I watched all those videos, until they released one where they do not name Safari and just call it "the odd browser", because Google's legal team advised them to do so.
Safari, Midori, Epiphany and so on will always be slower than any other browsers. Even Edge's original rendering engine was faster and more up to date/standard-compliant than Safari's.
I'm a web developer and when I'm developing for modern browsers, there is always some Safari-only bug to fix.
Search for "Safari is the new IE".
I use Edge just because the right click context menu has icons, so much easier to navigate through menus because that, I get to use it like that.
No performance issues and basically the best for me because it gives me the tools I need to do my stuff done.
I don't care that much about browser's speed but SAFETY. That's why i stick with Firefox. And there also with some adjustments in about:config, with UBlock, NoScript and a VPN only.
I do not know what to use but for me privacy as well as speed and ease of use are important.
i used a lot of browsers on windows and linux but my favorite one is Brave
specially because his adBlocker is better than any extension i tried
Jump to 7:09 for the actual answer and to save yourself some time.
You don't need to go through a 7 minute lecture in OS performance differences.
At home on Linux, my main browser is Vivaldi, but I also regularly use Firefox for some websites that are little picky about which browser I'm using. It's at about a 60/40 split with most being done in Vivaldi.
At work on Windows, Chrome and Firefox are an even 50/50 split and I avoid Edge like the plague.
Was a Chrome user untill ~3 months ago but I switched to Firefox and I have been loving it!
I would be interested in the settings that you change pre-use of a browser; cookies, permissions, default search engine etc.
tbh vivaldi is the best browser imo, not purely because of speed, but because of how customizable it is, you can have alot of features, or a really slimmed down version, or a mix.
i used to be a firefox user, then i turned to chrome, then i hopped to opera for a while, and while opera was good, it has since, iirc, gone chinese, and that's when i found vivaldi.
another browser i despite is opera GX, its just a jazzed up version of opera and promises alot of things i really dont care about, and i absolutely hate the gimmick of it.
i never got into brave..
tbh try out vivaldi 5.0 update chris, you'd be shocked to see how far it's come! (even though idk when you last used vivaldi)
just a quick addon, many browsers might have mouse gestures, but can your browser, with NO ADDON, do a custom macro and assign a hotkey to it, from the browser itself(with no addon or third party app installed, i.e fresh install)?
vivaldi can, and it can do so much more, sure, its a bit of a setup, getting to know the browser, customizing it, finding the correct settings etc, but vivaldi imo have so much functionality it amazes me sometimes, tab stacking, tab tiling, chain commands/macros, hotkeys for built in translation, it has a screenshot tool, you can almost customize everything about it's visual and functionality. only thing it's really missing at this point is that you can drag and drop stuff and write code yourself to add onto the browser.
i just discovered they have a built in rss feed, it has its own mail system and whatnot else
I am using Firefox on Linux (Manjaro KDE), and I am quite happy with it. I've got a bunch of add-ons and such, and it's OK for my use, which is probably a little bit unorthodox...currently I have 662 tabs open. Yes, 662! Don't really slow Firefox down much. But I am happy.
662 tabs geez, holy crap thats alot
I used Falkon for a while, but I got drawn into Google ecosystem. Falkon is very lightweight, but lacks a few features, too. Extremely fast! Felt faster than Chrome.
Interesting video and the timing was pretty relevant for me. I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi after they forced the new interface change. Vivaldi has been great until this last update a few days ago and now it is noticeably slower (even with extensions disabled). I just ran Speedometer on Vivaldi, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox and Firefox came in first (138), Chrome second (133), with Edge third and Vivaldi coming in last with 89. All the browsers had the exact same extensions installed. Firefox actually one two more extensions installed that are not available on the Chrome-based browsers. I really don't want to go back to Firefox but it looks like Vivaldi just crapped the bed...
They had a good thing going for a while, but they couldn't resist overdeveloping.
@@MichaelSharpTechniSmart That's the exact reason I came of Vivaldi. It was good, gave options but then they kept adding things without optimising it all. The difference in speed was noticeable. I'm on Edge now which just seems like a better Chrome to me.
Love how you were so real with this video! Great one!
More concerned with privacy, security, and blocking ads than I am with speed. That I have to add ten apps to try and block notifications and targeted ads is ridiculous.
I ended up getting some gnarly results:
Firefox: 118 (uBlock installed, but was ran in incognito)
Brave: 123
Edge: 165
Chrome: 172
Running on Windows 10, with most telemetry disabled.
I'm running an i5-8600K, slightly overclocked. I can't remember what exactly I overclocked it to. GTX 1070.
Firefox has been my main for a few years now. I used chrome and firefox all the time for work since I'm a developer, but I can't tell the difference performance wise. Both have been good to me.
@Chris Titus Tech
I tested this with my Opera GX. My score was: 174 +/- 1.9 on Windows 10, lots of extensions and about 20 tabs open.
Good video chrisgetting an honest opinion is refreshing.
Been using Vivaldi almost a year now. Really appreciate how fast and customizable it is.
Okay, it's showing brave is slow. However it didn't seem like a fair test to me because it was weighed down with plugins which I did not see in the other browsers.
It isn't fair, I just didn't want to wipe out my brave to make it fair. It's the browser I use and imo is comparable to chrome.
@@ChrisTitusTech Was it possible to run that test in incognito mode inside Brave? I reckon that disables almost all the extentions which would haven been ideal for this test
@@bishwajitkar2165 you can allow extensions to run in incognito tabs iirc
@@bishwajitkar2165 Probably would have been better performance for sure, but also a good indication of how much performance we lose when using extensions in every browser. I probably should have outlined that better with a before and after
BAVE BOCKS RUclips ADS....LOVE IT
Love videos about browsers. Thanks for this!
Samsung Chromebook user right here. Switched from Windows about 6 years ago. Never looked back since!
It really doesn't matter, I use Vivaldi even though I know it's the heaviest and slowest of the bunch, because it's also the one with the most features and customization out of the box. In benchmarks, yes, it's slower, but in practice it's about the same. Maybe it was bad at some point, but it's fine now. Just choose whatever honestly. Most of them are chromium based, so most of them are about the same. If you're like me and you have like 50 different extensions and like 100 tabs open, you can forget about the performance differences between browsers because that's really not the issue here 😂
I decided to launch Brave just to try it out again. Within minutes I had a desktop notification for an ad. So, the browser with the built-in ad blocker serves me ads. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I know, I can probably opt out, but it's hard to believe in their model when they actively do the thing that they claim to protect you against.
Like "baby, I'll make sure those other guys don't beat you. Instead I'll beat you."
I care about privacy hence I use Google services (for example RUclips). So whatever tasks need a google account, I use them in Chrome and rest of the other tasks on Firefox.
I have the worlds smallest (possibly the weakest computer) handheld phone running windows 7 from over a decade ago, which browser should I run? Chromium?
Firefox forever just to not use a Chromium-based browser.
I've been using Firefox since the days of Netscape. I like the separate search box. I usually have Chrome installed in case an incompatibility comes up, which happens occaisionally.
Subscribed.
I'm using Dissenter. I think it's Chromium based. I did use Vivaldi, same as you. One thing with Vivaldi, it interferes with the video online and also affects the video on the entire OS overall. The video periodically flashes when Vivaldi has been running for a while. The browser is pretty smooth and quick, but after running for an hour or more, this flashing begins, on the screen. That sometimes leads to other mini-crashes. That is why I switched to Dissenter.
Thanks for the content.
Keep up the good work.
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Forget how fast they are, which browser eats the least amount of ram
I use Vivaldi as my daily driver and Brave as my backup. Viv has some trouble with the odd site, which Brave doesn’t seem to have. Basically, Viv has more features but a few more bugs. Both are good imo.
Chrome is fastest is because of stupidly high optimization. I've been on Android for like 10 years now and have accumulated 1000s of bookmarks. Now I only use Chrome either on Windows or Linux or my phone. Everything is there where I left off. Makes things easier. That's why it's the preferred one.
Chromium is based on khtml or the KDE browser. Today it's called Falkon. That's the super fit grand daddy of browsers no one is talking about.
Every firefox user, try some firefox based browsers, some are pretty good. (Personal recommendations: Librewolf , Waterfox)
Firefox is acting sweet to me after installing custom user profile!
When it comes to real life performance all the difference in scores are 1 second or 2 at best, i don't think anyone would care about a second boost in his browser, these tests are good as a video material to get views but useless in real life
Firefox user from the start and for all the reasons you mention and a few you didn't - basically it is the only one that IS NOT GOOGLE/CHROME.
hands down, firefox. there is a reason why Tor is based on a firefox platform. if you get used to the UI a bit, its a breeze.
I've been using Firefox exclusively since Netscape Navigator Gold 3.xx. 'Nuff said.
I used Firefox for basically all my internet life, but I switched to Brave because I don't like the direction they are taking (team up with Meta/Facebook)
It's sad, the only competition to chromium it's basically killing itself, and Firefox forks never worked for me.
I really wish Firefox stop doing stupid things like politics and teamups that folks hate. I feel like the people running it are on drugs.
They are all fast enough these days. Speed tests have not really been important since the early days of javascript when there was new engines being developed and actual performance improvements being made. These days the times are so close it is meaningless.
Uh, obviously from Chris' tests the times are not so close to be meaningless. There were substantial differences between the four.
@@markh.6687 Well score itself is just one thing. Other thing is actually what it means because from my test of loading several pages (local ones too) on different browsers on Linux the biggest difference in loading times was something between 1.5 and 2 seconds. I don't think it is game changing difference if you ask me.
Vivaldi was the slowest by 1.5 of average and Chrome loaded generally pages faster for almost 2 seconds less than the average.
The best speed booster for Firefox is to add NOSCRIPT extension. Then allow only the bare minimum of script needed to make the website function and keep the crap from loading.
As for someone who doesnt care about speed because of a good pc and internet connection i like firefox the most because of its nice interface and snappy, fast transitions.
Brave, no ads
I have used/tried: Vivaldi, Firefox, Librewolf, Chrome, Brave, Epiphany, Edge. Epiphany wasn't my cup of tea, pretty unusable. The rest are fine, each has its own strengths and weaknesses, in the end as long as they do what I need a browser to do I don't care that much. I have been using Edge for quite a few years now, I tried switching to Brave/Vivaldi but ended up coming back, not because is amazing or anything but becase I found a small issue with the others. I like to install and ocassionally use Firefox to support that project.
I don't just use one browser. When I'm managing my RUclips channel it's Google Chrome, when it comes down to everything RUclips is a Google service and Chrome makes sense for youtube and it's studio. My Crypto is done FireFox because of Ledger integration and my normal browsing is done on Chromium. I sandbox my browsing experience.
I use firefox and brave for backup when lazy web devs dont test their websites on firefox
same!
I use Chrome for day to day, Edge for work stuff, Firefox for my gaming and TTRPG stuff, and Brave when I get bored
On my personal computer I use Firefox as my main browser with Brave as the backup browser for those few instances that I need/want something chromium based. At work, I use Vivaldi as the main browser and Firefox as the backup. I have to have so many different tabs open at work that Vivaldi's tab stacks are just life changing for me, but I don't have that same issue at home, hence the not using it there.
As a linux user i use firefox
This could be because most websites are optimised for chromes rebdering abd not firefoxes
What browser were you using most often prior to Chrome's rise? I was always on Firefox up until Chrome's release, then I switched to that and (mostly) stuck with it up to Firefox Quantum, and then I've been on Firefox again ever since.
Couldn’t you have opened a Brave private browser window to minimize the amount of extensions?
I go back-and-forth between Brave and Vivaldi. I'm not concerned with speed. Since I work on multiple computers, I like the way these two browsers sync bookmarks. That's really why I stay with them.
I use Chrome for my personal day to day stuff mostly because i've been integrated with it for years. But for everything work related (sysadmin) i use Edge, i don't install Chrome on any client PCs either, especially since Microsoft has a ton of group policy options for Edge.
Firefox: Compact layout is not supported anymore and it has to be enabled from about:config.
Vivaldi: Yeah you can remove tabs or press Ctrl F11 to get rid of interface.
I uses Chrome because I can sync my Google account with my Android so all passwords are sync. But if it weren't for sync, I'd use firefox
@@motoryzen Nobody has asked you. I will keep uses because it's my comment and I can write what I want with mistakes. See you buddy
@@motoryzen Mario Jimenez has roasted you buddy. Man grammar hitlers are everywhere nowadays.
@@Eirnix he was just helping.
@@mewzi alright whatever buddy I'm sure he had good intentions but as Mr.Mario stated above no one asked him or anybody to correct grammar errors anyways this conversation ends here I won't be directing further reply's.
@@Eirnix alright good luck!