What's the Best Web Browser? #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin what's the best

web browser to find out I gather the

most popular browsers available

well Google Rome is by far the most used

today that doesn't necessarily mean it's

the best Firefox remains a force to be

reckoned with

and out of the ashes of Internet

Explorer Microsoft has built a

surprisingly solid edge browser Apple

Safari remains a solid option on the Mac

side while opera might be overshadowed

by Chrome there's a new option on the

block Vivaldi this is also based on

Chrome but promises to bring more power

user oriented features do you get

perspective on both Windows and Mac I'm

using a 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro that is

running El Capitan in addition to

Windows 10 via boot camp

the first test has been my standby for

years peacekeeper it's being phased out

but it's still hard to beat as a general

test of a browser to performance here

Firefox pulls out a pretty solid win

where the chromium based browsers do

reasonably well and edge falls behind on

the Mac side Safari ends up commanding a

solid victory with Firefox coming in

second next up we've got octane which is

a pure JavaScript benchmark on Windows

things are incredibly close edge does a

lot better here but there's no clear

winner it's much the same story on OS 10

as you'd expect chrome Vivaldi and opera

all perform similarly and only Safari

really falls behind moving on we've got

the html5 test to measure just how well

each browser supports the latest new

features on websites here again the

chromium trio are approaching perfect

scores where the default edge and Safari

browsers are starting to fall a fair bit

behind why let's us these have made a

huge difference to loading times over

the years it's still interesting to

measure the time it takes to open and lo

google.com interestingly edge is

blisteringly fast on Windows where the

fairly new Vivaldi looks like it could

use a bit more optimization things are

much closer on the Mac with everything

well under two seconds except for

Vivaldi which struggles even more here

something that's especially important

for less powerful systems is memory

usage so here I measure each browser

with 8 tabs open cromoz actually made

big strides since my last test beating

everything else which is especially

impressive considering it lost by quite

a bit to Firefox last time where Safari

is very well optimised which is one of

the benefits of being exclusive to the

Mac there's more to a browser than pure

speed though

edge has cool features like the ability

to annotate over screenshot right inside

the browser and a fairly clean interface

with Microsoft's take on omnibar to

search and go to a URL all from one

place Safari takes the simplicity up a

notch and it has a fair few extensions

in addition to some of the smooth

scrolling and animations and a browser

period chrome looks very similar to when

it first came out but

it's not a bad thing the table' out

nominee bar has been copied by basically

everyone at this point opera is similar

you'll get the standard variety of

extensions on the fair few themes but

there really isn't a lot here to

separate it from the others but volte

gives you more options to customize the

look and feel of the browser and you can

go fairly in-depth here even down to

customizing all the keyboard shortcuts

it can also change the interface color

based on the site you're on there's a

lot to like here the Firefox interface

is looking a little dated it is

definitely time for a refresh when in

Firefox as biggest strengths have always

been the extension support from all that

is still fairly healthy these days the

other browsers are quickly catching up

so what is the best browser both Firefox

and opera are starting to fall behind

where Edge has made some big steps since

the internet explorer days but it still

has a ways to go Vivaldi is still a

little rough around the edges but

there's a ton of potential over on Mac

the optimization of Safari makes it hard

to beat for Windows chrome remains the

best bet for most people it pairs good

speed with tons of features and solid

security of course it's not for

everybody so what browser do you use let

me know in the comments below when I

will catch you in the next one