There are constantly a zillion, repetitive "Which browser should I use?", "What browser should I use for [insert here]", "Which browser should I switch to?", "Browser X or Browser Y?", "What's your favorite browser?", "What do you think about browser X? and "What browser has feature X?" posts that are making things a mess here and making it annoying for subscribers to sort through and read other types of posts.
If you would like to keep the mess under control a little bit, instead of making a new post for questions like the above, ask in a comment in this thread instead. Then, one can choose to follow this thread if they want. Or, post in r/suggestabrowser.
Previous Recommendation Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1ome8nf/browser_recommendation_megathread_november_2025/
For what it’s worth, I’ve really been enjoying Helium browser. It’s lacking some basic features, auto-updates being the biggest one. If you’re willing to download and run the newest installer every week or so (for now), it’s a surprisingly fast chromium-based browser based on Ungoogled Chromium with a compact UI and ublock origin baked in.
> Brave if you want something similar to Chrome with a good ad blocker.
> Edge if you use Windows and want to stay within the ecosystem.
> Firefox if you want to suffer from battery drain and page incompatibility.
Does anyone even use these megathreads?
Yup, was just looking for an alternative to Firefox because I want to get as far away from AI garbage in my personal life as humanly possible.
Been using Brave on iOS and has been great for fighting ads. On pc I’ve been using Vivaldi for the customization and workspaces. Would love to use Vivaldi on iOS also but it’s been so buggy and lacks extension support which is just an iOS thing.
I’ve been trying to stay with iCloud passwords for my iPhone and pc through extensions and it’s been ok? I’d hate to have another subscription but bitwarden and 1password seem nice.
As someone who loves customization, I was so hopeful about Vivaldi, but my experience (on iPadOS at least) was the same. I quit using it within an hour after it crashed and lost 20 open tabs with no way to retrieve them.
Meanwhile I’ve had thousands of tabs open (yes it’s horrifying, I know) across various tab groups in Safari for 2 years now and while it’s definitely affecting performance (lag, crashes) at least I don’t lose anything!
Helium its all i need
People are often lazy and don't bother to search. They will spam this "what should I choose" anyway.
If you're on MacOS, take a look at Orion browser. It's on Webkit, so swift and native like Safari. Bur it uses extensions both from Firefox and Chrome. And it just released a 1.0 version that is really good.
I tried this out, and the performance on my M4 MBP wasn't very snappy. And at one time, it just hung after I published a blog post to my website- I didn't know if the post was published or not and had to force restart.
Same experience, love the idea but performance was abysmal
I mentioned 1.0 release specifically. It became better.
That's the one I tried.
Well, it still have bugs I guess. Bummer. Snappy enough for me though. Flyes like a rocket. But it's only my simple usecase.
Nice. I do hope they continue optimizing it as I really liked the UI and features. Will definitely revisit the browser
It's buggy as all fuck. A shame. Great idea, but same as Kagi itself, just haphazard. Great ideas, poorly implemented or with a over zealous charging model.
Ryan 1.0 is actually not bad more enjoyable than Safari after they completely totally run into Safari with iOS 26 Orion is what Ari should be, it’s still a little buggy though so after the next couple of updates, Orion should be pretty awesome
What do you think of Brave and Helium? I'm trying to choose between these two; Something that does bother me with Helium is that I can't manage to set it as default browser on Linux Mint for some reason.
floorp, now it has chrome extension too
All roads lead to Firefox for me. Have been switching browsers for like 2 years in search of perfect one but in the end I am back to Firefox again.
IMO the best combination (on Windows): 1. Firefox + BetterFox + UBO 2. Edge - if you need an alternative on Chromium. And it’s already included in Windows setup so why bother installing another Chrome
Firefox is a nightmare for anyone who uses it on Android. And that's not just an opinion.
Can you elaborate on that? I've been using it for years and don't have any problems, though I am certainly not using it like other people might be.
And it happens with zen. I'm liking it
I use Comet broswer.
Can’t go wrong with the top 10. … … …
Hi everybody!
I've been an Opera/Opera GX user for years, but lately I've been feeling that Opera is getting slower and heavier each update, and that really upsets me. I always loved Opera's customization options and how a lot of QoL things that you needed extension in other browsers were actually just features integrated in the basic Opera.
However, with the currently decline in speed, I've been meaning to change. I've read this megathread and a couple of the previous ones, but every comment says a different thing about browsers options.
I've read this test results https://privacytests.org shared in one of the megathreads, and I'm not sure what to make of it. I want a secure browser with a few customizations options like Opera has, but I care a lot about speed.
If I had to rank it, the priorities would be:
Speed;
Security;
Usability (aka, does the browser actually feels good to use? Does it have a lot of features that are helpful to the user?)
Customization.
I don't know much about other browsers, but I've seen people recommend Brave for speed and security and Vivaldi for its customization. Isn't there an option that combines those strengths?
I appreciate it if anyone can help me :)
privacytests is useless as long as they do the tests without ublock origin installed. Add that and all the browsers that still support it would look very similar in terms of results.
That's good to know, I didn't imagine uBlock Origin would level them out that much.
So, which browser would you recommend?
Firefox or brave.
My reason is simple: megacorps are not there for me or you, they exist to suck money, whether it's microsoft, google, or apple.
So for that reason, I support small companies or literally anything else when possible. I use windows, outlook, google search, and so on. But when I see an alternative without any major downsides, I use it.
On mobile I tend to like brave more for the mini group tabs at the bottom.
Brave is literally chrome that doesn't give data to google. You get a good adblocker built in but you gotta disable crypto stuff. Main downside (and it's not major for me) is that the sync is slow.
Firefox on desktop is pretty good, add ublock and you're ready to go. On mobile it can have some weird behaviors with some sites ime (like openwebui clicking the chatbox sometimes makes it go behind the keyboard), but it's not unusable.
Keep in mind that while firefox will drop manifest v2 eventually, it supports the webrequest api that ublock heavily makes use of to keep fully functioning, so it's like manifest v3 with some additions from v2. And brave has its own adblocker so it's covered as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you so much for the in depth reply!!
I read about this crypto issue with Brave, so I'm not sure if I'll try it, but I'll definitely install Firefox and see if I can adapt to it. I was between Firefox and Vivaldi so you helped me make my mind, thanks!!
Is there any browser on Android that allows autofilling one time passwords from SMS mesages (and to a smaller extent potentially emails) ? I've searched around a lot and gotten mixed messages about OTP autofill on Android browsers, and I can't get it to work on my OnePlus 13 in Brave or Firefox.
I think it's mostly keyboard app being able to read messages and then auto-pasting them into the text filed.
Huh, I've tried that avenue too but still no dice, do you know of any keyboards or browsers that allow that because all the one's I've tried (Gboard, SwiftKey, Futo) still don't work?
I'm looking for a Chrome-esque browser that doesn't send my data back to Google or Microsoft, and where Incognito mode actually means it doesn't track, aggregate, etc.
The catch is I'd still like to use Chrome password manager - is there such a thing? I was using Duckduckgo on Windows until a few weeks ago but have switched to Bazzite Linux, and Duckduckgo doesn't support Linux.
I'd like to have Chrome-style tab saving, Chrome webstore extensions, autocomplete/autofill sync, etc.
Does such a browser exist? Brave seems to be the one but it seems too good to be true.
Brave was what came to mind before you mentioned it. I use that, but I don't use the built in password manager (1pass or lastpass).
How well do those PW managers sync across devices and with auto fill?
I want a maximalist browser that uses MORE RAM. I want to customize it with tons of useless things. Long term Firefox user, now I got 64GB RAM and I installed Vivaldi just to put a bunch of shit on it but still not enough.
Quetta browser
Guys do we have a comparison guide btwn brave and firefox?
Can you recommend an Android browser that supports extensions, is very fast, and can even be customized?
Is it worth using hardened Firefox or should I use Mullvad/Librewolf instead? I already use Brave and Chrome for different use cases and I intend for a Firefox fork to be the most private browser (outside of just straight up using Tor). I've used a**enfox (censoring to avoid automod) and a bunch of extensions to change Firefox but now I'm seeing that apparently that just makes you fingerprintable.
hi hi! just got a new laptop and was looking for browser recs… it seems based on what i read and reddit reviews im leaning towards vivaldi, but wanted to ask in case anyone has other recs. this is my laptop specs:
💻 Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 (14″ AMD) – My Config CPU: AMD Ryzen™ AI 7-350 (8 cores / up to ~5.0 GHz boost) GPU: Integrated Radeon™ 860M RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5X-7500 (dual-channel, soldered) SSD: 1 TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe Display: • 14.0″ 1920×1200 OLED (16:10) touchscreen • 360° convertible hinge
I have not been able to find a browser that works reasonably well under iOS / iPad OS and is available on all major platforms:
* Safari has good ad blocking and supports tab groups but is not available on all major platforms
* Brave has excellent ad blocking and is available on all major platforms but doesn't support tab groups
* Firefox has good ad blocking and is available on all major platforms but does not support tab groups
* Chrome is available on all major platforms and does support tab groups but is poor at ad blocking
* Vivaldi is available on all major platform, has good ad blocking and customization options and supports tab groups. However, the desktop version does not support tab groups and hence synchronization between desktop and mobile versions does not work.
There are other limitations. For example, in contrast to desktop versions, it does not seem to be possible to name web browser windows or to move a tab from one window (group) to another window (group). All in all, the web browsing experience under iOS / iPad OS is rather miserable which is a pity because iPads would otherwise be ideal devices for web browsing.
I would be interested to know whether the same limitations apply to web browsing in Android. Brave for Android, for example, is reported to support syncing tab groups with the desktop versions but I haven't checked this. Am I missing something on web browsing in iOS / iPad OS?
Chrome, for better or worse, can be made to be very adblocker friendly. Both desktop and iOS. For my workloads and cross platform requirements, Chrome is still the best at actually getting stuff done. On desktop, use Adguard and a DNS blocker (NextDNS, Adguard or CtrlD). On mobile, use Adguard Pro and/or a DNS blocker.
Thanks, very helpful!
But like Brave, Chrome too does not support syncing tab groups between iOS / iPad OS and desktop versions, right?
Edit: it does, sorry for the noise
Is there ANY browser for Android that's chromium based with extensions? I currently use edge, but the UI is too cluttered and the way it handles grouped tabs is weird. I know cromite just added extensions, but I personally don't like how it NEVER tells me if I've visited a website or link before and unless I overlooked it in the settings/flags I can't fix that.
Why has brave so many automated comments under youtube videos about firefox?
I am looking for browser that can handle a shitton of tabs open. Hundreds. Basically for ADHD ;)
Go to privacytests.org and look at what browser tickles your fancy.
I’ve been using Librewolf for a month and I like it.
Brave has hidden crypto mining. Vivaldi was cluttered.
I only use Edge if a website doesn’t look correct in Librewolf.
Using an ultra-private browser like Librewolf with anti-fingerprinting and logging in to Reddit at the same time? The whole point of this browser has been defeated.
When using LibreWolf, you should never log in anywhere, or if possible, use guest accounts on sites that allow it. No amount of anti-fingerprinting, even the best, won't help you if you log in to your own account, because then both Reddit and Google already know it's you on the other side.
It's a bit like using the Tor browser and logging in to your Gmail account. Google will still know you're on the other side. Even if you appear once in Madagascar and then again in Antarctica.
Privacy is a lifestyle, not a choice of operating system or web browser.
It takes 5 min to remove crypto junk from Brave.
Laughs in Helium Browser 🥰
just installed it on Mac. Doesn't seem to have vertical tabs?
No however they are working on it. You could try the experimental "compact view"