Extensions are put to the side of the address bar and can be collapsed under the "more" menu in the top right of the browser. You've got at the top your tabs, address bar, and optional bookmarks. Your toolbar is minimal, to give you more room to view the website, which is the whole point of a web browser. All four browsers have plugins/addons/extensions and the popular ones are probably supported on all platforms.Īll modern browsers will have an address bar, search bar (some combined), tabs (and a new tab screen), bookmarks, and unique elements for that browser. While they share many aspects of each other, they have small distinctions that could possibly (though I suggest to not let it) make or break your browser decision.Įxtensions are a necessity for browsers, which is why it might be harder to get behind some of the lesser-known browsers (they might not have the extension you want). And on top of that, we will also be running JetStream 2, a JavaScript and WebAssembly benchmark suite and HTML5 Test, a benchmark that measures how well a browser supports HTML 5.Before we get into the nitty-gritty tech specs, let's consider the layout and design of each browser. We will then record CPU and memory utilization for one minute. To test the browsers’ performance, we will launch 20 tabs featuring the world’s 20 most visited websites simultaneously. The MacBook Air was chosen because it runs all browsers (Safari is macOS only), it is a highly popular notebook, and it only has a modest low-power (read power-efficient) Y-series processor. It was omitted because Microsoft has a new Chromium-based Edge browser in the works and will be retiring the current incarnation of Edge soon.įeatures are important but so is performance, especially since the web is so important to today and web browsers are expected to work across a wide range of devices with varying levels of computational power.įor this shootout, we will be using a 2018 MacBook Air as our test mule. Here is the list of web browsers that I’m going to test.Įagle-eyed readers will notice the absence of Microsoft’s Edge - the world’s fifth most popular web browser. And more recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chrome welcomed over 11,000 tracker cookies in a single week of browsing.įortunately, there’s no shortage of alternative desktop web browsers and I’m going to evaluate them today. A case in point is how some of Chrome’s new user policies are turning away computer science experts.
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