So, you're probably reading this very article on a web browser, and you might even already have a die hard opinion about your favourite browser.

But you don't have MY opinion!! Which of course, is incredibly important, how else are you supposed to know which browsers to tell your friends to use???

Well, fear no longer. I shall present to you my INCREDIBLE browser opinions, but as a modern woman I've done it in a fancy way just for you never fear, never fear...

I mean, what's a more relevant way of having information beamed directly into your brain than a tier list?

As a quick disclaimer, I honestly think anything that's not in the SATAN tier is honestly fine and really usable. (Even Opera is fine I just really don't like them.) I just want to recommend some potentially better browsers for your needs, and to help you consider like, not using Microsoft or Google's slop! Now read!!!!

The cream of the crop. My favourite browser.

Floorp. Floorp is my favourite web browser. Figured I'd start from the top and go down the list, and there's only one thing at the top. Floorp, baby.

Floorp is one of many Firefox forks, and I think it's just a really damn good one. It has great support for customisability, it's fast, huge plugin support, great workspace integration, it's pretty much the quintessential Firefox fork with basically everything everyone could want. It's not as privacy-focussed as some other forks, but it still has all the default privacy options and features you'd expect out of Firefox, so it's incredibly well suited for daily use, and if you really care about privacy that much you should be using multiple web browsers already.

I cannot recommend Floorp enough, it's genuinley a great browser and one of the best Firefox forks in my opinion! It's just great stuff. And it has a really funny name.

Mobile browsers???

I don't think about mobile browsers a whole lot, they're all kinda the same and most of the time privacy concerns on mobile come a lot more from Google and Apple or whatever other company made your phone. That said, I am very fond of Waterfox and Fennec, they're both very good mobile Firefox browsers, Fennec being a great F-Droid option whereas Waterfox is pretty easily accessible on the Play Store. I used to not really like Firefox on mobile, but over the last few years it's gotten incredibly usable and I generally recommend it over Chromium mobile browsers, these are just my favourite examples of mobile Firefox, I don't really recommend Mozilla's version...

The best of the worst :P

OK!!! I'm joking Chromium isn't thaaaaat bad... But generally speaking, I honestly just really prefer the feeling of Firefox, I'm way more used to it and I still think Firefox browsers are just generally better for providing a secure but usable experience compared to Chromium. However, if you really hated Firefox and reeeaally wanted to use a Chromium browser, then I genuinley really recommend Helium. I think it's by the far the best Chromium browser providing a pretty good user experience and is generally pretty fast. My only real gripe with it is that it seems to struggle with having Startpage as it's default search engine, which being my search engine of choice, made it a bit annoying to use.

However, Helium Is still in beta, which might turn some people away, in which case I just recommend Vivaldi. It's the best non-Helium Chromium browser, but I honestly think Helium is more than great even in its beta so there's no real reason to use Vivaldi over it besides not wanting to use something still in beta tbh. Little fitting that the best Chromium browser's logo looks like a butthole isn't it OK SORRY you can use Chromium sorry sorry!!!

Cromite is a really good mobile browser. Nowadays I'd recommend Waterfox or Fennec, but before Firefox was more usable as a mobile browser I recommended Cromite, if you specifically want a Chromium mobile browser, then I think Cromite is perfect for you. I still used it until recently, just because I got so used to it and really liked it! I'd still recommend Waterfox and Fennec over it though, but that's mostly just because I really like Firefox.

Niche but great

Tor is like, THE private browser. If you really need privacy, just use Tor. It's not suited for daily use in the slightest, but that's kinda the point! You shouldn't expect to use Tor on the daily, but it's there for when you really need it. It might have a "scary" reputation to anyone whose incredibly boring, but the need for privacy sometimes is a real one, and it's inevitable that private networks will eventually have some weirder stuff on there by nature of not being on the clearnet. This shouldn't scare you away, Tor is a perfectly good network protocol with great privacy, and I genuinley recommend everyone at least have it downloaded because you'll never know when you might need it. Of course, just stick to another browser for daily use.

I do think I2P is the better and more secure network protocol as opposed to Tor, though, and I really love eepsites and see them as a better alternative to onions, but that's a topic for another day, and Tor is generally still more popular so there'll likely be more onions than eepsites for anything you might need if you need it.

Qutebrowser is, well, cute! I like it! It's an older browser with a heavy emphasis on keyboard shortcuts, which isn't everyone's thing but I think serves a very fun niche! I've really gotten into the habit of setting up keyboard shortcuts for basically everything, as I've started to prefer window managers over desktop environments, so I really appreciate a browser which main feature is it's emphasis on keyboard usage! It's not entirely for me, but I could really see someone really loving it because of how well it handles itself!

Konqueror is mostly a KDE thing, but I think it's pretty damn cool! It's like, a file manager and a web browser in one, it's a really neat piece of software and I really liked it's applications when I briefly used it. Unfortunately, KDE mostly focuses on Falkon now, and Konqueror is pretty old and losing it's use cases, so it's a bit of a difficult recommend, but for when it's needed I still think it does what it needs to in a great and very interesting way, I like it!

Seamonkey, Pale Moon and Basilisk all fill generally pretty similar niches for me. My personal favourite of the three is Pale Moon, but they all serve as older style browsers with a focus on being lightweight and keeping earlier web style, Pale Moon having incredibly customisation for this. I used Pale Moon on my laptop, becuase it's pretty lightweight and still really usable! I really miss the era of browser UI design these browsers seek to be faithful to, and I think they do a great job at it! I recommend basically all three of them for this purpose, but I probably wouldn't use it for daily use on a modern system because of the lack of modern plugin support, which is a bit of a shame, but it's nice as a little thing to keep on a secondary system which might need a lighter browser!

Probably good, just not my thing

Aaah, Orion, the browser for Kagi jagoffs! I've heard interesting things, it supports both Firefox and Chromium plugins?? That's pretty nutty! And making a standalone browser not based on the former two is already crazy enough frankly, so there's a lot to commend about Orion! My issues with it is that, when I used it it was kinda buggy, but I'm sure that'll get better with time. Additionally, I just don't really use Kagi, so I don't feel particularly inclined towards Orion, I'm still a Firefox jagoff until the day I die, so unfortunately I'll probably never switch to Orion, but keep an eye out for it! If your a Kagi fan, or just looking for a new browser, it might end up being for you when it's in a good spot!

Falkon seems fine! It's KDE's current focus in terms of making a browser, and I generally really liked KDE's stuff! I think KATE is an incredibly code editor, and Krita and Kdenlive are both great software in their own right, even if I don't really use them! I don't actually use KDE as my desktop environment, I'm kind of an XFCE diehard, but I think it's a damn good DE despite this, and Falkon seems to be a great browser for it too! I just personally don't really feel a need to use it myself, but I could see someone whose used to it really loving it and using it even if they aren't using KDE Plasma as their DE! Though, I do wish they'd update my goat Konqueror...

Zen's a pretty up and coming Firefox fork I've seen a lot of praise for... But I don't really jive with it that much. I get it's still in beta, but I hate side on tabs and couldn't find an option to change them (btw, Floorp supports side on tabs, tabs at the top, at the bottom... Just saying!) Additionally, the way Zen is marketed just kinda pisses me off, it feels like it's trying really hard to be this super calm and chill browser, and I just find it a bit grating. I implore you to give it a shot though, something with as much praise and this one is getting has to be doing something right...

Librewolf and Ironfox are, in my opinion, the best browsers of a particar sub-category of browsers I don't really like. They're both privacy focussed, the main difference being Ironfox is on mobile, but don't go the full mile like Tor in using their own super private network, they just tend to work as a middle ground between daily browsing and super privacy. There's a few more of these browsers in the next tier, so I'll save my full thoughts on this for them, but I do acknowledge that Librewolf does just have some good features in general that I can see people liking, and it is the best of a bad trend in my opinion, so I think it deserves to be a tier above at least for that.

I think there's better options available.

Mozilla's Firefox is the classic Firefox browser most people use, and it's pretty ok! I'm not the biggest fan of Mozilla's practices, but generally it's not really that big of a concern. So why is Mozilla's Firefox so low?

Look, I've just gone across multiple different Firefox forks telling you why I think they're really good, and in most cases better than Mozilla. Mozilla's Firefox is completely fine, there's just many better options in all of the different forks of it, so I don't really see the use in just using Mozilla's Firefox over the better alternatives. Yeah, it's fine, but if there's better options then why not give them a shot? It's not particularly difficult to swap browsers, so it's not even that big of a commitment. If Mozilla's Firefox is enough for you, then that's ok, but I think it's always worth exploring some alternative options, because it's just nice to have options!

Icecat is interesting, but lacks anywhere near enough support to be worth using over any Firefox fork. Maybe it'll become more usable again one day, but for now? Just use Firefox.

My main issue with the browser versions of Yandex and Duckduckgo is that there's basically no real reason to use them as a browser. Alternative search engines to Google are very appreciated, and you should probably be interested in beginning to get used to using them if you still use Google and would like to distance yourself further away from them. Which brings the point that, if you really use Yandex or Duckduckgo (to be clear I heavily recommned Startpage over both of them) then just use them as search engines in a different browser? Pretty much every other browser on this list is much more usable, and you can just use these search engines on them anyway, so there's really no point to using them as browsers.

Samsung Internet is a perfectly acceptable browser for Samsung phones, but as with the rest of this tier, I just think there's better options for mobile browsers these days. And like, you can be cool and hip by not using your phone's built in browser! How attractive! I'm swooning for you already.

None of these browsers are necessarily bad, but they represent a trend in some browsers I generally dislike. The rise of the 'privacy-focused' browser that still wants to be usable in a daily manner too, and I just don't like this trend.

If you do that's fine, but personally I just don't really like these half measures! If you want real privacy, then there's no reason to not go the full mile and use Tor or I2P or any other network protocol, Firefox's in built privacy features can already be configured to be pretty good and keep you very secure, while also keeping your browser very usable. There's rarely a time you'll need more than Firefox's tweaked privacy settings, but less than the full anonymity of networks like Tor, and I think these browsers are just wore versions of Librewolf which does what these try to do the best. If you really need the privacy, then please just go and use Tor or I2P. You should be using multiple browsers if you really care about privacy anyway, so it's not a big deal to keep a nice and usable daily browser alongside a really secure one like Tor.

And like, fuck Brave. Brave's stupid. If you want something with privacy, you've already failed if you even bother using Chromium, so just never bother with Brave if you're into these "secure" browsers, please just use something based on Firefox, because it will always be better than Chromium in this regard.

SATANS INCARNATE

Ok this one's kind of a joke. I don't think GNOME's built in browser is all that bad, but there's definetley better options. I just don't like GNOME. I think it's genuinley one of the worst DEs I've ever used, and I just hate using GNOME, therefore I hate GNOME's browser, because I'll never use it.

But i's fine :P

So I don't really like Opera, but it's probably fine? I'm not huge on their marketing in the slightest, and I have a really inherit distrust of them because as a kid I accidentally clicked on a sketchy ad and all it did was install Opera. I think if your browser is using such sketchy advertising methods, then I kind of have an inherit distrust of you, so I don't feel comfortable putting them above the bottom tier, but if you use it it's... Probably fine.

I don't think I really need to explain myself. Microsoft and Google both fucking suck mega balls as companies, and you should do the best to avoid supporting and using their products where you can. I understand some things are more difficult to do, like maybe you just don't wanna learn Linux, or rely on software only available on Windows, but you should really strive to do your best to avoid these companies as best you can. (Just pointing out it's really easy to just not pay for Windows!) If there's any takeaway from this list, which is ultimately just a silly list of opinions, it's to please just stop using these browsers, and use literally anything else. That's all I ask of you, if you want to take away anything from this post.

Arc AI, ChatPGT, Perplexity AI.

Do I need to say anything else?

Conclusion

In conclusion, your ultimately fine if you use anything that's not the bottom few browsers. It really doesn't matter, but I want to encourage people engaging with their software and tech more, and exploring alternative browsers is just one way of doing that! It's good to know your options, and play around with to see what you like! You could totally disagree with me on all of this, and that's beautiful.

Just please stop using Google Chrome.

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