Top Web Browsers For Laptop/Pc(2018)

the web browser for most people is the

 

most important software on their

 

computer thankfully you have several

 

great internet browsers to choose from

 

with so many options it's best to try

 

out as many as you can to find the one

 

that best fits your needs over the last

 

few months I've installed just about

 

every internet browser that is known to

 

determine which one is the best based on

 

my testing the key factors I've been

 

looking at include built-in features

 

ease of use and overall speed on high

 

and low powered systems today I will

 

count down the top five web browsers for

 

use on Windows Mac and Linux computers

 

 starting

 

off the countdown at number 5 is the

 

baldy which is developed by

 

 Vivaldi

 

 

technologies one of their founders also

 

co-founded opera it has a ton of

 

features some of which like the tap

 

stacking and tiling which are really

 

cool when you launch the baldy you'll be

 

greeted with the speed dial page this is

 

where you can find some of your favorite

 

websites to add a new page click the

 

plus I'll add virustotal when you're

 

done select add and it'll show up on

 

your speed dial page along the left side

 

you will find your bookmarks downloads a

 

place to take notes and history you can

 

also add web sites here as well

 

currently I have Amazon and YouTube

 

added as you can see by selecting one it

 

will pop it out here from the side you

 

can also make the side tab wider by just

 

dragging it out which comes in handy if

 

you need to work on more than one site

 

at a time

 

Vivaldi is built on chromium so you

 

can't install extensions from the Chrome

 

Web Store by first selecting the Vivaldi

 

menu icon in the upper left go down to

 

tools then select extensions here you

 

can see what extensions you have

 

installed select get more extensions to

 

be able to browse the Chrome Web Store

 

the only thing keeping Vivaldi from

 

being higher on this list is that it is

 

still not available to install on

 

Android and iOS

 

coming in at number four is the 

 

brave

 

 

browser which is the top pick on this

 

list for those of you that are focused

 

on improving your online privacy by

 

default brave will block trackers and

 

ads which can speed up your performance

 

as you can see brave has a clean looking

 

user interface without too much clutter

 

opening a new tab gives you this screen

 

which shows you the time along with how

 

many ads and trackers have been blocked

 

on the sites you have been to now let's

 

go check out the Yahoo web site using

 

the brave browser as you can see the

 

site loaded really quick in the upper

 

right is the brave Shield panel clicking

 

on it will show you the ads and trackers

 

blocked on the site below that is

 

advanced controls currently I have it

 

set to block ads and third-party cookies

 

HTTPS Everywhere

 

and block phishing and Malware our boat

 

turned on if you have trouble loading

 

certain sites try turning off

 

fingerprinting protection and block

 

scripts on this website it's currently

 

blocking 5 ads and trackers as you

 

scroll down the page brave will continue

 

to block more ads and trackers opening

 

up the panel it now shows 20 blocked

 

let's open up a new tab and in the lower

 

right select preferences you can change

 

the default search engine with many to

 

choose from for privacy

 

DuckDuckGo start page quant and Sirk's

 

are good choices brave does not offer

 

many extensions you can just toggle the

 

switch next to any of these to activate

 

them if you're looking for more privacy

 

tools and a quicker browsing experience

 

check out the brave browser in at number

 

3 is 

 

Google Chrome

 

 losing its crown as

 

the best and dropping two spots from

 

last year's video even though it's the

 

most used browser in the world and

 

deserving of being in the top five

 

the lack of innovating features over the

 

last few years and its speed on systems

 

with low RAM are the primary reasons why

 

chrome is no longer number one on a

 

newer desktop and laptop that I

 

chrome performed great with no issues on

 

a five-year-old laptop I was using for

 

testing chrome was one of the slowest

 

browsers to open and once opened seemed

 

mind-numbingly slow just to transition

 

to other open tabs chrome is still one

 

of the best browsers on newer computers

 

if you have an older computer you might

 

be better served by selecting one of the

 

other browsers from this video in the

 

runner-up spot at number two is

 

 opera

 

 

initially released in 1995 opera has

 

always been an innovator many features

 

including pop-up blocking private

 

browsing tabbed browsing and others have

 

later been adopted by other web browsers

 

they currently have a free unlimited VPN

 

feature and a built-in ad blocker if you

 

don't have the fastest internet speed

 

you'll appreciate the turbo feature

 

which compresses web traffic this could

 

make webpages load faster on the upper

 

right of their speed dial page if you

 

select the easy setup icon you have the

 

option to switch between a light or a

 

dark theme change your wallpaper select

 

whether you want to block ads or not

 

along with other settings that you can

 

change quickly opera also has extensions

 

but if you need more choices you can

 

install the Chrome extensions add-on

 

which will allow you to install Chrome

 

extensions in Opera available on almost

 

every platform and with so many great

 

features

 

I'm surprised opera isn't more popular

 

than it is before we get to the number

 

one pick for the best web browser here

 

are some others that might be worth your

 

time to check out Microsoft edge for

 

Windows 10 Safari for Mac OS tor browser

 

a privacy and security focused browser

 

for Windows Mac and Linux and up Ernie

 

on a cool experimental browser for

 

Windows and Mac if you want more browser

 

alternatives I'll throw a link in the

 

description to a video with other

 

options that might be of interest to you

 

coming in at number 1 as the best

 

overall web browser is

 

 Mozilla Firefox

 

 

just barely beating out Opera Firefox

 

just recently had their largest update

 

in more than

 

ten years which they codenamed Firefox

 

quantum this update brought in a new

 

engine for faster performance that uses

 

less computer memory when loading pages

 

this was especially noticeable on the

 

older laptop I used for testing as

 

compared to Chrome on newer computers

 

you probably won't know this much of a

 

speed difference among all the top

 

contenders syncing between devices works

 

great you can even share open tabs

 

between your desktop a cell phone and

 

tablet with the send tabs feature

 

Firefox introduced a new system for

 

extensions with the Quantum update that

 

prevents rogue developers from making

 

malicious changes to the internal code

 

of the browser as a result many users

 

were upset with some of their favorite

 

extensions no longer worked to be fair

 

the developers of these extensions were

 

notified nearly two years prior to the

 

update of the changes Firefox also has

 

thousands of themes that can change the

 

appearance of your browser the theme I

 

currently use it's called dark fox to

 

preview a theme before installing select

 

a theme I'll select this one here called

 

celebrate 2018 then click on the tap to

 

preview button to see the changes

 

whether you have a lower high powered

 

system and you're looking for a browser

 

with a clean-looking user interface with

 

plenty of features and add-ons this

 

would be a good time to try out Firefox

 

thanks.