Nonplussed by the big-name browsers? Well, there's good news: there are literally loads of alternatives which you've likely never heard of. You might find older versions of Safari for Windows, but it's no longer kept up to date by Apple. Chrome, Firefox and Opera are the most compatible. Here's a table which summarises the main features, as well as which platforms each browser supports. Chrome does this, as does Safari (but this is only useful if you have Apple products of course). These are the most common reasons why we use more than one browser.Īrguably the best browser is one that runs on all your devices and shares bookmarks, logins, current tabs and other data so you can pick up where you left off on any device. Similarly, if a website isn't displaying properly or working in one browser, try another. If a specific extension isn't available on your favourite browser, simply check and see if it for another browser. As of the Windows 10 Anniversary update in mid 2016, Edge finally started supporting extensions. They all support extensions and add-ons so you can add specific features, shortcuts and widgets. They all offer to save your passwords and aside from Internet Explorer (and to some extent Microsoft Edge) they will sync your data, favourites and tabs between multiple computers and devices so you can grab your phone and carry on reading where you left off on your laptop. Those of us running Windows use Chrome, Firefox and Opera most of the time with Edge when necessary, while Mac users will use a blend of Safari, Chrome and Firefox.Īnd all of these browsers offer decent performance and compatibility. So while many would agree when we say that Google Chrome is the ‘best’ web browser, there’s nothing stopping you from using five or six different browsers.Īt Tech Advisor we all use multiple browsers on a daily basis. Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and others also add, change and remove features in those regular updates, so on the odd occasion, a feature which was a reason to use a particular browser would vanish overnight.Įven if a browser is better than its rivals because of performance, security or features, they’re all free and there’s no limit to how many you can install or run at the same time.
And that’s why we’re not offering benchmark results here. The problem with that approach was that all of these browsers are updated constantly, meaning that those reviews quickly became outdated. Previously we have reviewed web browsers, benchmarking them for speed and rating them on features. It's just one measure, and there are others of course.
Of course, you'd be right to say that just because more people use a certain browser, that doesn't make it the ‘best'.
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