Common questions
- Which browser is best for privacy?
- Depends how far you want to go. Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser are built for anonymity but break some sites; LibreWolf and Brave harden a lot while staying usable every day. The quiz weighs how much breakage you'll tolerate before ranking them.
- What are the serious alternatives to Chrome?
- Keeping the engine and your extensions: Brave, Vivaldi, Thorium or ungoogled-chromium. Leaving Google's engine entirely: Firefox, LibreWolf or Zen.
- What's the lightest browser?
- On old desktop hardware, NetSurf, Dillo and Falkon stay comfortable where Chrome gives up. In a terminal, Lynx and w3m run on anything with a prompt.
- Why do all iPhone browsers feel the same?
- Apple requires every iOS browser to use its WebKit engine, so on an iPhone they differ in features and sync — not in speed or site compatibility.
- How does the ranking work?
- Your answers set weights across 22 criteria; every browser carries a 0–3 score on each. Multiply, sum, sort. Your devices are the only hard filter, and nobody pays for placement.
What could you want from a browser?
Every feature worth wanting, and the browsers that have it. Click a name for details.
Who begat whom
Almost every browser is a fork of something. Trace the lineages — drag to look around, click any browser for details.
Every browser we know
Mainstream, hardened, hackable, half-forgotten — the whole catalogue.
57 of 57 browsers
Firefox
The independent original.
Google Chrome
The default for a reason.
Chromium
Chrome without the Google gloss.
Safari
Apple's home advantage.
Microsoft Edge
Chromium in a Microsoft suit.
Opera
The feature-packed veteran.
Opera GX
The browser that thinks it's a gaming rig.
Brave
Private by default, Chrome-compatible.
Vivaldi
The power user's toolbox.
Tor Browser
Anonymity first.
Mullvad Browser
Tor Browser's privacy at VPN speed.
LibreWolf
Firefox, hardened out of the box.
Waterfox
Privacy-tuned Firefox with a gentler touch.
GNU IceCat
The GNU project's all-free Firefox.
Ungoogled Chromium
Chromium, surgically de-Googled.
DuckDuckGo Browser
Privacy for people who don't want settings.
Cromite
Bromite's successor: hardened Chromium to go.
IronFox
The hardened Firefox for Android (Mull's heir).
Firefox Focus
Tap, browse, burn.
Onion Browser
Tor on the iPhone.
Zen Browser
Calm, beautiful Firefox.
Floorp
Firefox with every switch exposed.
Arc
The browser that rethought browsing.
SigmaOS
The browser as a to-do list.
Orion
Zero-telemetry WebKit with extension superpowers.
Dia
Arc's AI-native successor.
Comet
Perplexity's agentic browser.
ChatGPT Atlas
OpenAI's browser with ChatGPT in every tab.
Thorium
Chromium compiled for speed.
Mercury
Thorium's Firefox-flavored sibling.
Falkon
KDE's honest lightweight.
Min
A browser with almost no interface.
NetSurf
A featherweight with its very own engine.
Dillo
Runs on a potato.
Otter Browser
Opera 12, lovingly recreated.
GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Clean, native, no fuss.
Konqueror
KDE's Swiss Army veteran.
Midori
The lightweight classic, reborn.
qutebrowser
Vim for the web.
Nyxt
The infinitely hackable Lisp browser.
Luakit
Tiny, Lua-scripted, keyboard-first.
surf
suckless: one window, zero chrome.
Lynx
The eldest browser still breathing.
w3m
The terminal browser that renders tables.
ELinks
The comfortable terminal browser.
Pale Moon
The classic Firefox that never left.
Basilisk
Pale Moon's XUL sibling.
SeaMonkey
The all-in-one internet suite.
K-Meleon
The featherweight Windows native.
Polypane
The browser built for building.
Responsively
The free multi-viewport dev browser.
Samsung Internet
Android's quiet giant.
Via Browser
A full browser in ~5 MB.
Iceraven
Firefox for Android, unleashed.
Whale
Naver's dual-screen powerhouse.
Yandex Browser
Slick features, Russian jurisdiction.
Ladybird
A brand-new engine, written from scratch.