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hey guys this is Austin what's the best web browser to find out I gather the most popular browsers available well Google Rome is by far the most used today that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best Firefox remains a force to be reckoned with and out of the ashes of Internet Explorer Microsoft has built a surprisingly solid edge browser Apple Safari remains a solid option on the Mac side while opera might be overshadowed by Chrome there's a new option on the block Vivaldi this is also based on Chrome but promises to bring more power user oriented features do you get perspective on both Windows and Mac I'm using a 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro that is running El Capitan in addition to Windows 10 via boot camp the first test has been my standby for years peacekeeper it's being phased out but it's still hard to beat as a general test of a browser to performance here Firefox pulls out a pretty solid win where the chromium based browsers do reasonably well and edge falls behind on the Mac side Safari ends up commanding a solid victory with Firefox coming in second next up we've got octane which is a pure JavaScript benchmark on Windows things are incredibly close edge does a lot better here but there's no clear winner it's much the same story on OS 10 as you'd expect chrome Vivaldi and opera all perform similarly and only Safari really falls behind moving on we've got the html5 test to measure just how well each browser supports the latest new features on websites here again the chromium trio are approaching perfect scores where the default edge and Safari browsers are starting to fall a fair bit behind why let's us these have made a huge difference to loading times over the years it's still interesting to measure the time it takes to open and lo google.com interestingly edge is blisteringly fast on Windows where the fairly new Vivaldi looks like it could use a bit more optimization things are much closer on the Mac with everything well under two seconds except for Vivaldi which struggles even more here something that's especially important for less powerful systems is memory usage so here I measure each browser with 8 tabs open cromoz actually made big strides since my last test beating everything else which is especially impressive considering it lost by quite a bit to Firefox last time where Safari is very well optimised which is one of the benefits of being exclusive to the Mac there's more to a browser than pure speed though edge has cool features like the ability to annotate over screenshot right inside the browser and a fairly clean interface with Microsoft's take on omnibar to search and go to a URL all from one place Safari takes the simplicity up a notch and it has a fair few extensions in addition to some of the smooth scrolling and animations and a browser period chrome looks very similar to when it first came out but it's not a bad thing the table' out nominee bar has been copied by basically everyone at this point opera is similar you'll get the standard variety of extensions on the fair few themes but there really isn't a lot here to separate it from the others but volte gives you more options to customize the look and feel of the browser and you can go fairly in-depth here even down to customizing all the keyboard shortcuts it can also change the interface color based on the site you're on there's a lot to like here the Firefox interface is looking a little dated it is definitely time for a refresh when in Firefox as biggest strengths have always been the extension support from all that is still fairly healthy these days the other browsers are quickly catching up so what is the best browser both Firefox and opera are starting to fall behind where Edge has made some big steps since the internet explorer days but it still has a ways to go Vivaldi is still a little rough around the edges but there's a ton of potential over on Mac the optimization of Safari makes it hard to beat for Windows chrome remains the best bet for most people it pairs good speed with tons of features and solid security of course it's not for everybody so what browser do you use let me know in the comments below when I will catch you in the next one