Free Lightweight Chrome Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Google Chrome for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Mozilla Firefox, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Google Chrome and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Google Chrome are Waterfox, Pale Moon, LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser.

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  1. Mozilla Firefox icon
     7566 likes

    Web browser by Mozilla with Gecko and WebKit engines. Offers tabbed browsing, HTML add-ons, Enhanced Tracking Protection, cross-device syncing, and privacy customization. Includes tools for developers and a 'Facebook Container' extension.

    252 Mozilla Firefox alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    • Gecko
     
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  2. Waterfox icon
     436 likes

    Utilize Waterfox for a high-speed, private browsing experience on 64-bit systems. Built on Firefox, it taps into Intel's C++ compiler for optimal performance, supports legacy extensions, allows full customization, and blocks ads by default, ensuring utmost control and security.

    92 Waterfox alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Flathub
     
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  3. Pale Moon icon
     400 likes

    This open-source Goanna-based browser for Windows, Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD offers customization, security, and privacy. Forked from Firefox, it's optimized for modern processors, ad-free, and supports unique extensions, community-backed. Comes with a functional status bar, supports NPAPI plugins.

    199 Pale Moon alternatives

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  4. LibreWolf icon
     348 likes

    LibreWolf is a community-maintained, privacy and performance-enhanced browser forked from Firefox, independent of Mozilla. It uses over 500 settings to limit telemetry, offers an Extensions Firewall, supports all major systems, and is developed free from corporate influence.

    98 LibreWolf alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Linux Mint
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    • OpenBSD
     
  5. Mullvad Browser icon
     152 likes

    The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.

    105 Mullvad Browser alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  6. Floorp icon
     133 likes

    Open-source browser based on Firefox, combining advanced privacy and tracking protection with a Chromium-inspired interface, cross-platform support, customization options, compatibility with Firefox extensions, regular updates, efficient performance, and multilingual support.

    144 Floorp alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. Helium Browser icon
     81 likes

    Chromium browser with open-source ad, tracker, and cryptominer blocking by default, zero tracking, customizable privacy controls, proxy-anonymized extension downloads, split view, and efficient, unobtrusive interface for full extension compatibility.

    66 Helium Browser alternatives

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  8. SeaMonkey icon
     243 likes

    Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing in one application. Itis built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies Thunderbird and is the base for the Firefox browser.

    187 SeaMonkey alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
     
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  9. Cromite icon
     79 likes

    Cromite is a Chromium fork focusing on privacy, featuring built-in ad-blocking, user agent customization for privacy, DNS adjustments for security, and anti-fingerprinting measures to ensure user safety throughout browsing sessions.

    46 Cromite alternatives

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
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  10. Privacy-focused open-source smartphone browser by DuckDuckGo blocks trackers, enforces encrypted connections, and provides a Privacy Grade. Partners with 'Terms of Service Didn't Read' and offers features like tabs, bookmarks, and autocomplete, keeping search data private.

    182 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser alternatives

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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • F-Droid
     
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  11. Midori icon
     255 likes

    Midori is a lightweight, fast, and free web browser. It aligns well with the Xfce philosophy of making the most out of available resources.

    135 Midori alternatives

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    • Android
     
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  12. SRWare Iron icon
     188 likes

    SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a fork of the free and open-source web browser Chromium , of which Google Chrome is a fork of. Iron primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy violating...

    177 SRWare Iron alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • PortableApps.com
     
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