
Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. That may be 1990s-vintage advice, but it’s still true. Development credit of this software goes to Mozilla Foundation.

No matter what, however, if a browser starts to bog down, don’t wait to quit and restart it. Mozilla Firefox & Firefox Focus For iPhone. Voice Search makes lengthy surfing sessions a breeze. But I could also see making Firefox my Mac default and giving Edge that job in Windows. Chrome also works on Windows, a Mac and a Chromebook, bridging the divide between platforms. Google boasts of best voice recognition technologies in business, and Voice Search on Chrome works like a charm. For example, I have Safari as my default on my Mac and Firefox as my default in Windows, but Chrome is a backup in each – for sites optimized for it and for strange ones I may not trust. These conflicting virtues usually make “best browser” a multiple-choice question.


If you live an all-Apple existence, Safari constitutes the easiest cross-device option, but if one of your devices is a Chromebook, only Chrome will allow easy synchronization. Google also consumes high RAM and CPU because it’s multiple background threads to make the page rendering faster. All of these browsers can sync your reading across devices, and your hardware purchases can further constrain your choices. Why Firefox is better than Chrome Firefox is a privacy-centric browser that hardly tracks any browsing behavior, whereas Google does it all the time.
