Ranking Web Browsers for 2026!

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Little Bit Lost

Little Bit Lost — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:42:40 GMT

i reccomend using waterfox on phone because its supporting uBlock.

Chrome, Brave, Opera and Edge are in the bottom category for me because they all have bad practices.

I am actually having 2 firefox based browsers at the same time because i rather go to a "un-addon-ified" firefox based first before i try something else.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Back To Analog

Back To Analog — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:33:21 GMT

@callmelucas @thelinuxexperiment

I only use it for google stuff.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - sbird

sbird — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:45:46 GMT

Echoing what others have said with Helium. It ships with uBlock Origin by default and the setup is fantastic (it lets you choose the layout, search engine, password manager, etc. so super easy for beginners). It is the one I use when Firefox doesn't work for a pesky website (of which there has only been one, and it was some locally hosted thing a friend of a friend made)!

FF shipped with EndeavourOS so it's my main, I have tried Librewolf and Zen, and they are both very good too! On the Android side of things, IronWolf is what I use, a community spin of FF. Fennec is another one and is essentially the F-Droid build of FF with telemetry disabled by default.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:44:52 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment That's a major plus for the terribly named #Floorp web browser - that it can also use #Chrome addons along with #Firefox addons.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Francesco Marinucci

Francesco Marinucci — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:38:05 GMT

@backtoanalog@mastodon.social I totally agree, Helium became my go-to option for anything requiring a Chromium-based browser.
For daily usage, Waterfox is my favorite (waaay better than Floorp and Zen imo): it is totally non-bloated and keeps adding useful features at every release, while keeping the UI predictable.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Narv

Narv — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:07:54 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment I love @zenbrowser 's out of the box minimalist approach: no bloated page when opening a new tab, vertical tabs are a plus for me, it lets you choose the search engine you want during initial setup, it's Firefox based (compatible with extensions)... Love it. My chromium-based fallback is Brave, but I honestly never have to use it. I started using Gnome Web more. Maybe I'll download my password manager's desktop app and give it a real try. But for now happy with Zen.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Half

Half — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:45:55 GMT

LibreWolf as best privacy respecting browser for daily usage. Not bloated, not supporting Google (due Chromium usage), not proprietary as Vivaldi (absolutely NoGo). TOR as second browser for more sensible stuff. Servo from time to time to track progress to hopefully replacing Firefox-based browsers one day.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Fossery Tech

Fossery Tech — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:09:05 GMT

I use LibreWolf and Brave, although Brave is quite similar for me as Ungoogled Chromium for you, I'd probably put it in the "There's better" category. I just need it for some sites which don't work well outside Chromium, as for Ungoogled Chromium, the lack of MV2 is kind of a dealbreaker for me, and even though the browser itself is more trustworthy than Brave, it doesn't have proper ad blocking anymore, so it's basically up to whether I prefer a browser with less tracking or websites with less tracking, I went with the latter, although it's quite a tough choice, so I still put Ungoogled Chromium in the "would use it" category I guess. There's also Helium browser, based on Ungoogled Chromium, but the devs seem to be the same who developed some shady Chrome extensions before, as Switched to Linux pointed out in his video, so I can't trust them that much, but the MV2 support makes it maybe a bit better, and since the browser itself didn't do anything shady so far afaik, I can't recommend against it, but I'd put it to the "wouldn't use it" category. Same for Waterfox. Chrome, Edge, Opera go to bottom, telemetry is telemetry, no matter which nation's big corps do it imo, I agree on Orion, it being discontinued can make it insecure to use, also agree on GNOME Web and Falkon, although I'd make a bit of correction here, because Falkon uses QtWebEngine, which is a fork of the Blink engine. Firefox can be decent with some heavy hardening, debloating, but I personally don't do that, because there can be some more features, settings added in new releases, so it would require constant manual work to keep it actually private, so it still goes to "wouldn't use it". Vivaldi I don't have much against, other than not being fully FOSS, plus doing too much, I'd put it in "wouldn't use it". Floorp isn't bad, but it seems to ping a ton of Ablaze domains on startup, which is kinda sketchy to me, not sure why is it necessary, I'd say it's a "there's better", Zen isn't really for my taste either, and their privacy policy used to mention some connection to Microsoft as I remember, but not anymore, maybe I'm mistaking it with another browser idk, but based on their current privacy policy and track record, they seem trustworty, it isn't as good though as LibreWolf, because it doesn't remove that much stuff, e.g. the Sync, so it also goes to "there's better" I guess.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:36:45 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment What I like about Epiphany is that it uses a different engine [WebKit] to most other web browsers. I like to use it as a secondary web browser.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - DigitalDigger

DigitalDigger — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:52:14 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment Using Vivaldi as main browser. On macOS I tried Orion but NordPass doesn't work so lile you, I put it in the bottom section

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Back To Analog

Back To Analog — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:20:43 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment

I use Helium (Chromium based) for Google stuff, Waterfox for FB, and Zen for everything else. You should take a look at Helium. It is really good.

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - César Pallares :damnified:

César Pallares :damnified: — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:57:54 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment excellent! I personally use Vivaldi. Never heard before of the top ones

Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! - Spoodle

Spoodle — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:51:55 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment Thank you ❤️