

The most important reason people chose Brave is: Other apps make it difficult to block ads without rooting your phone or going through unoptimized add-on stores, but Link Bubble blocks them out of the box, making browsing much less crowded. Brave Brave for Mac 1.44.108 Download A whole new way of surfing the web 1/4 Privacy online has turned into a growing preoccupation while surfing the web. Of course, there are others, but these are the ones I've tried most recently. Brave is ranked 7th while Vivaldi is ranked 8th. Also very buggy in my experience (multiple crashes per hour right from the start). I haven't used it long enough to guage battery life (it's Webkit so should theoretically be good) because their insistance on bad shortcuts that break website functionality or force me to change everything myself means it's never lasted long on my machine. Brave is a free web browser application (download here) available for desktop and laptop computers running Windows (Windows 7 or later), Mac (OS X Yosemite. SigmaOS - Feels like an overly-complicated version of Arc.

Orion - Very light on resources but fairly buggy (to be expected since it's a beta), likely to eventually lock basic features behind a subscription, UI is pretty basic but at least it's minimalĪrc - Great UI, very pleasant to use, but still a buggy beta and the Chrome-like battery consumption is a killer.Įdge - Good on battery life, works wherever Chrome does, but is slowly filling up with bloat, is also kinda ugly.įirefox - Fair battery life (not as good as Safari or Orion, better than anything Chromium) but the UI is kinda ugly and there are always new, very weird bugs popping up. Safari - Good battery life and native integration but too limited, missing extensions I use regularly. At the moment, I think Orion is the one that works best for me, whereas Arc is the one I'd actually prefer to use but don't because of battery life.
