What are the best Mozilla Firefox alternatives?
Mozilla Firefox is described as 'A free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox is highly extensible, with thousands of third-party add-ons available' and is a leading Web Browser in the Web Browsers category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Mozilla Firefox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and Android Tablet. The best alternative is Vivaldi, which is free. Other great apps like Mozilla Firefox are Pale Moon (Free, Open Source), Brave (Free, Open Source), Waterfox (Free, Open Source) and Opera (Free).
- Enhanced version of the stock browser. Featuring: • All basic browser features • Auto-hiding controls • Import/export bookmarks from/to SD card • Disable search suggestions • Custom search engines • Addons e.g "Tint Browser Adblock Addon"
Discontinued
The last update on Google Play was on January 5th, 2014 and the last commit GitHub was on May 29th, 2014.
- Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well.
Discontinued
Latest version was in 2016. See news: https://www.uzbl.org/
- Naked Browser uses the Android WebView (WebKit) that's on your device--the same one used by the stock Browser. The developer has scoured the stock Browser code removing bloat, creating a lightweight, lightning-fast alternative. TRUST: Right permissions with no spying.
- Since its release, Petey Vid has already indexed over 30 million videos, and continues to grow its content. Petey Vid is an intelligent system that populates itself based on the searches users make – without saving their IPs /search histories.
- surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit2/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.No screenshots yet
- Unbranded builds are available from the continuous integration builds on treeherder.mozilla.org. What is different compared to Nightly and Developer editions (which allow unsigned addons too)?
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
No screenshots yet - Maxthon’s Nitro Web Browser is the newest addition to Maxthon’s family of high-performance web browsers. If you want the fastest-starting, quickest page-loading, and most visually uncluttered web browser in the world, you’ve come to the right place.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated and not even promoted on Maxthon's website. Last version, 1.0.1.3000, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official webpage.
- Polarity is a user-friendly web browser featuring an intuitive interface that allows you to explore various websites and bookmark your favorite pages.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Rekonq is a web browser for KDE based on WebKit. It first focuses on being a light, fast & clean way to access to net. Its development is doubly based on using the new amazing features offered by the WebKit rendering engine and on the rock solid network KDE technologies.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- KDE
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last version, 2.4.2, released in January 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.