We all know that there are quite a few web browsers that we can use, but we don’t really know them to make a decision as to which is the best one to use for ourselves. Well, with this article we hope to get you out of your doubts, since we are going to analyze the main options that exist today.
It may be that you have always used the same browser or that you tried different ones, without clearly deciding on one or the other. We hope that with this article you can better understand what each one offers you and thus choose the one that best suits your needs.
What is a web browser?
We should not confuse a web browser with a web browser, since they are different things.
A web browser is a platform (a web page) that is used by browsers to search for information. A good example of this can be Google or Bing .
A browser is a tool that we have installed on our computer, mobile or tablet that allows us to access all the web pages on the Internet. We can use search engines to find other websites, but they are still pages that we access from a program, that is, from the browser. The main browsers today are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari and Opera .
Currently the most used browser in the world is Google Chrome according to data published last July by NetMarketShare, with 70.19% of the market share, followed by Microsoft Edge with 8.07% and Firefox with a 7.58%.
Google Chrome
This browser was born in 2008 with the idea of unseating Microsoft Internet Explorer, which was the most used browser at that time. It is clear that over the years it succeeded, becoming, as we have mentioned above, the current benchmark.
We can talk about it being a browser with very good manageability , extremely intuitive for the user who is not very knowledgeable. It’s blazingly fast , although Microsoft Edge has managed to catch up quite a bit in this regard.
We have many synchronization possibilities , since the Google ecosystem is so wide that we can have everything at hand from Chrome. To this we must add the amount of extensions that we have at our disposal, with which we complete the browser to make it more and more complete and to our own liking.
Another of the virtues that Chrome has is that it has great stability , something very important in a good browser.
Anyway, not everything is really positive in this Google program. It consumes many resources on our computer, which can cause the odd failure in not very powerful equipment.
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Microsoft Edge
The predecessor of this Microsoft Edge was the all-powerful Internet Explorer, since it reached 95% of the market share in its prime.
This is the browser that comes by default in Windows 10 , the operating system par excellence for computers and its main virtue is the simplicity of its entire interface , since anyone can handle it with some ease in a very short time. Its security settings are much easier to optimize than in other browsers. In addition, each new update that happens is somewhat faster , which makes it very on par in this regard with Google Chrome.
It has a good number of extensions that can be used to put it a little more to the taste of each consumer.
It has been on the market for a short time, which means that it is still polishing in many ways, although it is true that everything seems to indicate that it will be a tough rival for Chrome.
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Firefox
This browser was created by David Hyatt and Blake Ross for Mozilla in 2004 .
It is a browser with a really good performance and that is updated very regularly , which causes it to have continuous improvements. In addition to having a large number of extensions to improve it, many of them from third parties, since it is an open source browser , we also have a multitude of customization options , which makes it the most versatile browser in this regard.
It may not be as fast as Google Chrome, but the difference is not enormous, although at certain times, when we demand a lot, it may be a little noticeable.
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Safari
It is Apple’s web browser, which has been installed on all its devices since 2003 .
One of the most positive parts of this browser is the possibility of synchronizing with the entire ecosystem that Apple offers, such as the iCloud cloud storage system, to give you an example.
It is fast and has a fairly simple design to use. It is a browser that does not have any complications and that is very intuitive in everything that refers to its operation.
The main problem is that it is only compatible with Apple devices. In addition, it does not have a large number of extensions and functionalities as if we have in other browsers that compete with it.
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Opera
This browser has been with us since 1995 and was created by the Norwegian company Opera Software. It may not be the best known, but it does usually have certain innovation options that make it a very interesting browser.
The best thing is how little it demands from the system , so it will work at full capacity on any type of device. It has several interesting options, such as voice control . its interface is easy to use and with the most original design of all that we are presenting to you.
They could improve its level of updates , since it is not that it is too fast in receiving new functions.
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Brave
This is a browser not known to the general public. It was created by Brendan Eric (creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla).
It is an extremely fast browser with a fairly advanced security system . Integra Tor to protect us when we are browsing and not leave any type of trace. Until not long ago it was not in Spanish, but right now it is in our language.
Perhaps the worst part is that it is not very well known and that its updates and extensions are somewhat more limited than those of its larger competitors.
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Maxthon
This is a Chromium based browser with a pretty good interface and not overly complicated.
One of the best options you have is the integration of torrent downloads within your system. It is ideal for playing multimedia content , as it adapts perfectly to it. We can install Chrome extensions , which means that in this sense we also have many possibilities.
One of its strengths may be one of the main reason to discard it, since it is excessively oriented to multimedia content, so we will have to opt for other browsers.
