A web browser is a program for displaying and viewing content from the Internet, a global network of numerous data servers interconnected by communication channels. Browsers on computers / laptops or smartphones with Android are used by everyone without exception. In importance, this type of program comes immediately after the operating system. Not sure? Turn off the Internet and think about what you will do on your PC now. Immediately 90% of cases will disappear, right?
A browser is almost synonymous with the word "Internet" for many, which is why its choice is so important. Let's take a look at the top 10 best browsers for Windows 10 in 2019.
1. Yandex is the best and fastest browser for Windows
Great emphasis is placed on safety. The search engine knows where and what, so it cleverly blocks suspicious sites, pop-ups, automatic downloads of all kinds of garbage and other harmful activity. Many people like to read the personal Zen news feed. You can enable an efficient turbo mode. The smart search bar understands different types of queries: it will show the weather, exchange rates, and so on without going to websites. Mountains of applications, very high page launch speed, mouse gesture control, advanced built-in reader, translator, appearance customization - all these are elements of the best browser on the market.
pros
Minuses
- For those who do not use Yandex services, the browser loses a significant part of its advantages;
- Occasionally, there are problems with the transfer of browsing history and settings.
2. Google Chrome
The application was created based on a free build of Chromium from a hybrid of WebKit engines from the Safari browser and V8. This concept was brought to mind by many major developers (Opera, Yandex incl.). The first public version of the browser from the concept was assembled by the guys from Google, calling it "Chrome". Great emphasis in the product is placed on security: there is a database of phishing, malicious resources, which is regularly updated. The browser works with many processes that have separate low priorities. Works stably, the interface is simple, thoughtful. It has its own task manager in "additional tools".
pros
- Recognizable and simple design, ergonomic interface;
- Cross-platform, fast data synchronization across all devices;
- A separate panel of Google services that are available under a single account;
- Hundreds of thousands of additions for all conceivable tasks;
- Automatic mode and high frequency of updates;
- Convenient incognito mode;
- High level of security and speed of work, Sandbox technology for protection against hacks;
- Task Manager to monitor the resources in use.
Minuses
3 Mozilla Firefox
A high level of user data security is offered. You can turn on blocking all ads in the settings. The bookmarks bar in the form of tabs is convenient and looks nice. The dark design of the interface will appeal to many. All this consumes slightly less system resources than other popular solutions. It works smoothly, stably, although not super fast (performance can be adjusted). There is support for WebVR and WASM for toy lovers. Updates are automatic by default. Out of the box, there are a lot of settings that are interesting for web developers. Interface customization is flexible: you can change themes, icon settings and toolbars.
pros
- Well suited for web developers due to rich built-in tools and additionally installable plugins;
- You can customize it in detail for yourself, achieving an individual look and set of features;
- Includes NoScript and AdBlock security plugins;
- Convenient built-in document reader;
- Bookmarks sidebar (Ctrl+B) is easy to use;
- High reliability.
Minuses
- In terms of speed, it is inferior to browsers based on the WebKit engine;
- The more plug-ins installed, the more obvious the drop in performance;
- The interface looks overloaded with options, which can turn off beginners;
- Sometimes it turns out to be unable to display the contents of the pages due to the lack of support for something there;
- Consumes a lot of RAM, voracious.
4. Opera
The browser has a built-in VPN, which is free and works fine. Supports extensions and has one of the best quick access panels to sites. There is a built-in ad blocker, mail and map services. You can use voice control, there is a personal news feed. New versions are often released, including test versions with experimental features. Appearance can be customized by changing covers, fonts, and more. Allows you to watch videos in pop-up windows. A smart search bar, synchronization of settings under a single account and other familiar things are present.
pros
Minuses
- Average level of reliability and safety of work;
- Quite high system requirements in default mode;
- Frequent crashes when working with WML (displaying content structure on mobile devices).
5.Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer- the native Windows browser, ancient and familiar to everyone. Downloading other programs for surfing the Web through it has long become a good tradition. Development ended with the release of Edge. It falls short of current browsers in a long list of features. The speed of work is above average, the interface is simple, classic. Supports everything necessary for the correct display of the content of modern sites. Below average security: has long been a window for viruses and attacks of all kinds on Windows PCs. However, many are accustomed to using it, for this reason it is still included in the ratings.
IE 11 version boasts a privacy mode, supports caching to improve performance. Developers use it to configure routers, for everything else there are better solutions. The minimum number of add-ons, useful settings, outdated design, almost no built-in branded chips, except for the SmartScreen filter and a modest assortment of add-ons store. But it does have hardware acceleration. Due to this, the page loading speed is high, but there is no smooth animation, so the browser still looks a little twitchy. Internet Explorer is a browser for nostalgia.
pros
- Comes with Windows, does not require separate installation;
- Good page loading speed;
- The older version fixes most of the security holes;
- Address bar merged with search;
- The presence of a SmartScreen filter;
- Enables hardware acceleration to render pages.
Minuses
- Minimum functionality;
- Few extensions;
- Outdated design.
6.Uranus
Functionally, everything can be the same as Chrome: it supports extensions, it syncs with a Google account, it works quickly and reliably. To completely block ads, it is best to install AdBlock. Integrated a selection of extensions for webmasters. Thus, the browser is a profile solution for site owners on uCoz, with proprietary tools and all the advantages of other products created on WebKit.
7 Safari
safari- a proprietary browser from Apple. Support for the Windows version ended back in 2012 - the Windows version of Safari 5.1.7 (5.34.57.2) was the latest, and it is already outdated and not updated, but is available for download from the official site. However, some people still use it. It stands out for its decent speed and a characteristic interface. All this is covered by the lack of support for many modern technologies. The browser is not able to display the content of many sites, including YouTube and even, so to speak, native Apple.com. This is the main problem.
In general, there is an interesting mode of working with bookmarks (main screen), extensions are supported, there are convenient tools for storing articles - a reading list and a built-in reader, but all this is no longer important. The WebKit engine used to create it is the basis for Chrome and many other popular browsers. Current versions now work only in products with branded operating systems, being part of them - Mac, iPhone, etc.
pros
- Branded interface, which many liked;
- Good work speed.
Minuses
- Support and development have ceased, the browser has completely lost its relevance for the Windows platform.
8. Maxthon
Out of the box, the browser is richly equipped: AdBlock, a reader, an RSS grabber, a tool for creating and processing screenshots, a media content sniffer (downloading music, videos and pictures from previously visited sites). There is a good library of extensions, but it is inferior in richness to those of Chrome and others. The browser is integrated with proprietary cloud technology to synchronize everything and everything. It is cross-platform, there is a password manager, mail and more.
pros
- Reminiscent of a Swiss knife - there is a lot out of the box;
- Parallel viewing of two tabs in split screen mode;
- Mouse gesture support;
- Flexible interface and design customization;
- Lots of extras;
- There are necessary settings for security and confidentiality of work.
Minuses
- Interface overloaded with icons and settings;
- Average performance.
9.K-Meleon
K-Meleon is the perfect browser for a weak PC, it's very light and fast. The browser does not eat anything extra, giving all the resources to display the content of the pages: the startup speed is 2-4 s, the RAM consumption is only 150 MB, the CPU load is at the level of 2-5%. For an old laptop on Windows XP, that's it. It integrates news and email clients. The settings are clearly structured by category, you can scale the image and text when surfing. There is protection from malicious sites and private browsing options.
pros
- High performance;
- Low consumption of PC resources.
Minuses
- Primitive interface design by default;
- Sometimes there are problems with displaying texts in Cyrillic.
10. Tor Browser
While surfing, the IP address, location is hidden, cookies do not work, the cache and other personal data are not saved. Listen to music or watch movies through it is not worth it. Suitable only for entering blocked, prohibited resources. Built-in HTTPS Everywhere plugin that encrypts all connections in a row. You don’t need to do anything special to set up anonymity and connect to the Tor network, the browser will do everything automatically.
pros
- Provides a high level of privacy;
- Allows you to access sites and networks that you cannot access with a regular browser and search engine;
- Supports all technologies necessary for displaying modern websites.
Minuses
- Slow page loading speed.
The optimal browser for a Russian-speaking person, from our point of view, is a product from Yandex. It is as fast and technically advanced as Chrome, but at the same time it can offer the technologies and services of the domestic search giant that are relevant to us. This is convenient, because many people use them every day anyway. The design didn't disappoint either.
Firefox is an interesting choice for geeks, Opera is nicely designed, fast, and full of add-ons. Uran is a niche product that might be of interest to webmasters of uCoz sites, and indeed anyone who likes Chrome with its speed and simple interface. The rest of the rating browsers are closer to exotic - you can use it on occasion (Tor, for example) or just know that they exist.
Mobility has now become the lot of not only geeks who are keen on newfangled gadgets, but also ordinary citizens who fully appreciate the convenience of smartphones, communicators, laptops, netbooks, tablets and other portable devices that provide freedom of movement and allow you to work anywhere. Even the notorious flash drives have firmly entered the everyday life of computer users who are used to having at hand not only copies of important files, but also a set of frequently used applications that run directly from a USB drive on any PC available at hand (with a suitable operating system, of course) . It is difficult to overestimate the convenience of such software products: they are always at hand, do not require installation, do not litter in the system, are in no way inferior to their stationary versions, and, being configured once, always work the way the user wants.
The list of portable software available on the Internet is very extensive. Armed with any search engine, you can quickly find dozens or even hundreds of sites with software packages tailored to work from compact flash drives. All of us will not dare to list them - we don't have enough strength, and therefore we will focus only on Windows builds of portable browsers from different manufacturers. Web browsers are all the rage these days, and it's no surprise that we've decided to take a look at them.
It’s worth starting the review by listing the three browsers most in demand on the software market - Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. The first two programs with the Portable Edition nameplate can be found on the well-known profile site PortableApps.com, but with the search for a portable version of the Microsoft Internet browser will have to work hard. In order not to waste time in vain, it would be logical to try to make a portable assembly of IE8 yourself, using the tools mentioned in the "Portable software - I carry everything with me" toolkit. The latter can also be useful for transferring the Safari browser to a flash drive, the "pocket" versions of which most often appear on dubious and untrustworthy network resources. It is pointless to talk about the benefits of each of the listed products, since they are known from root to tip to almost all regulars on the World Wide Web.
The Opera browser enjoys well-deserved popularity among domestic web surfers, portable versions of which are carefully posted by enthusiasts on the site Opera-USB.com. All editions of Opera accustomed to flash drives are presented in ZIP archives, the contents of which are enough to unpack and copy to a flash drive. The Norwegian program has: an RSS feed aggregator, a BitTorrent client, an Opera Link user data synchronization module, a component for controlling the browser using mouse gestures and other tools, including an application for working with electronic correspondence. An important feature of the tenth version of the browser is support for Opera Turbo proprietary data compression technology, which provides economical traffic consumption and speeds up site loading when using a slow Internet connection. Netbook users who often delve into the depths of the World Wide Web via clumsy GPRS/EDGE connections should definitely bookmark the above link.
Firefox fans may like the browser, which uses the Gecko engine borrowed from the Mozilla Foundation to process web pages. After a little fine-tuning, this browser can also be taught the skills to work from a USB drive. K-Meleon boasts a highly customizable interface, support for tabs, various bookmarking systems, mouse gestures, a macro mechanism, built-in tools for editing configuration files, as well as the ability to clear browsing history, cookies and other private data. Someone, perhaps, will like the function of changing the themes of the interface design, translated into many languages, including Russian.
Fans of Google Chrome will definitely be pleased with the SRWare Iron browser developed by the German company SRWare based on the source code of the Chromium project, a portable assembly of which is presented on the developer's website. Externally, SRWare Iron is no different from Chrome, also built on the Chromium code base - the same interface, the same menu lists with controls. The differences, according to the authors of the product, lie in the internal stuffing of the application, which is devoid of functionality related to tracking user actions. Chrome is often criticized by security experts for sending information about user activity to Google and creating a unique identifier that makes it easier to identify each copy of the browser. SRWare Iron does not have such problems and allows the user to maintain their privacy while browsing the Internet, which is greatly facilitated by the ability to adjust the User-Agent field and the built-in ad blocker, configured using the configuration file.
Considering portable browsers, one cannot fail to mention the browser Avant Browser, built on the core of Internet Explorer and fully compatible with its progenitor. The program provides an RSS reader, a filter that screens out advertising banners, mechanisms for quick access to application settings that are responsible for blocking pictures, flash animations, videos, JavaScript and other elements on the web pages you view. In addition, the browser can automatically update user-specified tabs at a specified time interval, allows you to create screenshots of the screen or its individual areas, and also allows you to protect autofill data with a password. Separately, it is worth noting the presence of a function that saves open tabs when closed and provides a quick resumption of work when the browser is reopened. In terms of stuffed functionality, the application largely duplicates the browser of Opera Software and makes you wonder where the creators of Avant Browser drew inspiration from.
A good choice when looking for a portable "web-eater" might be the little-known browser QtWeb , whose key features are the WebKit engine, an integrated torrent client, the ability to adapt to competitors by modifying the User-Agent variable, and a toolkit for blocking various content on the fly. Useful little things include Internet developer tools, a function for quickly clearing data saved by a browser, a mechanism for exporting pages to PDF format, an AdBlock ad filter, support for mouse gestures, and a virtual keyboard that protects information entered by a user in web forms from being intercepted by intruders. Distributed by QtWeb open source and consists of only one executable file. In general, we recommend.
Those who prefer serious tools for hiding network activity should pay attention to the xB Browser software product, adapted for installation on USB drives that are widely in demand today. This solution is attractive for its internal stuffing, which allows using the Tor network (The Onion Router) and a chain of distributed routers to establish an anonymous network connection protected from listening. A real boon for privacy-accustomed spies and users seeking to remain incognito while surfing the Internet. The xB Browser is based on Firefox, which is loved by many, the settings of which are configured in such a way as not to leave any traces on the computer and even more so on the flash drive.
By the way, about flash drives. It is well known that the number of rewrite cycles for solid-state memory, whatever one may say, is limited, which means that sooner or later, intensive use of the storage medium can lead to exhausted memory cells and reduce the life of a portable drive. As a result, in order to avoid losing important data, you should occasionally think about backing up files stored on a flash drive and make backups.
The second point on which we would like to focus the reader's attention is related to the diminutiveness of information carriers: firstly, they are easy to lose, and secondly, they often become a tasty morsel for comrades engaged in theft and other dark personalities who are drawn to everything, which is bad. In order not to become a victim of random circumstances, it makes sense to think in advance about protecting critical data from prying eyes. You can use encryption software or hardware, using flash drives with biometric protection. Although the latter are somewhat more expensive than usual, they provide reliable protection of files from crooks. Security, you know, is never superfluous, and saving on it is sometimes very expensive.
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Ya.Browser is a web browser from Yandex, created on the basis of the Chromium engine. It combines the best features of the popular Chrome and Opera browsers, and also provides unique features to its users.
The Yandex browser is similarly capable of activating the Turbo mode that saves traffic and still the same fast page loading during a slowdown in Internet connection speed, as in. Enjoy a minimalist interface, amazing speed, a built-in translator, and add extensions from the Google Chrome store.
version: 28.8.2 from 29 January 2020Pale Moon is the best Mozilla Firefox alternative. The browser is based on the same software core, but features a lightweight interface and 25% increased performance.
It provides excellent page opening speed and increased stability due to the elimination of some tools. According to the developers from Moonchild Productions, a browser should be a browser, and it is not necessary to take on the functions of other applications.
version: 79.0.3945.130 from 21 January 2020The Chrome browser has long been the leader among its kind by a wide margin. It would seem that such trump cards as crazy speed and user-friendly interface left no chance for analogues.
But the increasingly hot breath of competitors in the form of Mozilla and Opera, as well as the conquest of their share of the audience by new products, such as, and Yandex.Browser, demanded new accents from developers.
version: 72.0.2 from 21 January 2020Mazila Firefox is one of the most popular cross-platform browsers in the world, provides fast, secure Internet surfing, is flexible in settings and has a huge selection of plug-ins and extensions.
The multimillion-dollar fan club of the Mozilla Firefox web browser accelerates the market, creating conditions for the existence of healthy competition with the Google browser. The reasons why users tend to download Mozilla Firefox lie on the surface - this is an emphasis on enhanced protection against malicious sites, high speed with dozens of open tabs and the introduction of innovative technologies such as sockets, web consoles or next-generation graphics.
Tor Browser for anonymous web surfing. It is a Firefox web browser with an integrated Torbutton extension, a script blocker and an add-on for logging into sites via HTTPS.
The program allows you to visit sites prohibited by the administrator or the state, as well as to correspond in web chats, place orders and upload files, hiding your IP address and other identification elements.
version: 2.10.1745.27 from 20 January 2020A new browser from the developers of Opera, based on Chromium with the Blink engine. It features enhanced functionality and increased ease of navigation.
The web browser interface is very similar to Opera 12 - it also has a sidebar, a recycle bin with closed tabs, and an image display mode. At the same time, the authors implemented a number of interesting innovations. Among them - tab grouping, integrated mail client, notes on open web pages.
version: 5.2.0.14 from 23 December 2019A program for safe web surfing that allows you to block access to the connected camera and microphone, view all permissions granted to various sites. 
A fast browser based on the progressive Blink core. When creating Atom, the company used the experience of working on Amigo, another browser from Mail Ru.
Waterfox is a Mozilla Firefox-based browser designed specifically for 64-bit systems. Provides secure and amazingly fast web surfing.
Initially, the Waterfox developers successfully took advantage of the fact that there was no official version of Mozilla Firefox for the 64-bit architecture, and compiled the program core using the Intel C ++ Compiler. Despite the fact that later the programmers from the office of the Fire Fox released a version for the 64-bit OS, Waterfox continued to demonstrate higher speed than that observed with its hyped relative.
When choosing a program to work on the World Wide Web, many are mainly interested in what is currently the fastest browser for Windows 7.
Although there are just a huge number of other criteria for choosing a browser.
To date, you can find and download many "self-written" browsers, that is, those that were developed by novice programmers, and not by teams of professionals.
So, their main drawback is the speed of work.
There is no mention of data security and safety.
In any case, today we will analyze all the main characteristics that will help you choose a program for accessing the Internet, and the main one will be the speed of work.
As for how this very speed will be tested, a very simple method will be chosen, which is to launch the browser or perform other operations on it with a stopwatch.
In particular, the speed will be tested on such operations as launching the browser itself, opening the website, signing in to the Google mail account, launching the video, and installation speed.
Testing will not be done on a new computer.
This choice is due to the fact that we want to achieve maximum objectivity of research.
Yes, such tests usually use "clean" machines, but we all do not have the opportunity to reinstall the operating system every month.
This would make it possible to make a completely “clean” machine out of the order of a used computer.
In general, the conditions will not be easy as close to reality as possible, they will be quite real. Go!
Helpful information:
Pay attention to the utility. It is a tool that improves the security of using the Internet. The principle of operation of the program is based on encryption of DNS traffic between the user and the provider.
Opera
This browser was released in 1994. Until 2013, he worked on his own engine, then switched to Webkit + V8, which is familiar to many developers, which, by the way, is also used a little in Google Chrome.
It is the fifth most popular web browser in the world according to research by some sites. Users love the mobile version, which is called Opera Mini.
The main advantage of this program is its excellent ability to save traffic. This allows many users to pay less for internet.
You can download this browser absolutely free on the official website www.opera.com/ru.
This site has one big "Download Now" button, which allows you to start downloading.
For our tests, the latest version downloaded from the official site will be taken.
Speed tests gave the following results:
- Browser startup time - 3 s;
- Website opening time - 2 s;
- Video start time - 2 s;
- Installation time - 1.3 minutes (from launching the installer program to closing it).
By the way, the design of the installation window for this program is very beautiful, but at the same time minimalistic.
The installation process itself takes very little time.
The user only needs to press one button and nothing else - he does not choose a path, does not read a bunch of license terms, does not watch presentations, and so on.
On the one hand, this is, of course, good, because a simple user does not need all this.
But some will say that this is bad, because "who knows what they write in the license there."
But since we evaluate the speed of work, then in this regard, Opera shows itself perfectly.
Other Advantages and Disadvantages of Opera
In addition to speed when choosing a program for accessing the Internet, it will also be useful to know about the following advantages of Opera:
- Saving traffic. A proprietary feature of this browser.
- The presence of Turbo mode, which allows you to work even faster on slow computers and still save traffic.
- Own express panel with bookmarks. In other browsers, this function must be installed additionally. Yes, there are bookmark bars, but they are not as functional.
- Hot keys of management. In fact, this browser can be controlled without a mouse.
- Ease of work. Opera is not loaded with plugins for privacy and other similar functions, so it can work many times faster.
The disadvantages of Opera include the following:
- On older machines, it may not work at all. On the other hand, nothing from the modern standard user set already works on them. And who now uses such old computers?
- Incorrect work of some scripts. In defense of Opera, we can also say that not all scripts that exist today work on other browsers.
Complaints about the instability of work - restarts, throws out, and so on. It also occurs not so often - whoever is not lucky will have to restart.
Google Chrome
This browser was released in 2008 - relatively recently.
Its direct ancestor is the Safari browser, which then also tried to be adapted for Windows, but these attempts were unsuccessful - it turned out to be too slow, and it often restarted.
Safari is originally designed for Mac computers. Google Chrome runs on its own engine called Chrominium.
Last year, this browser was the first in many polls in Runet.
You can download Google Chrome on the official website - www.google.ru/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html (a very non-standard link that could be shortened).
There is also a single button that needs to be pressed.
By the way, here, on the download site, you can read the license agreement, as well as set Google Chrome as the default browser and check the box for sending work reports to Google.
By the way, many refuse the latter.
To do this, you just need to uncheck the box highlighted in green in Figure 4.
Testing the speed of this browser gave the following results:
- Browser startup time - 4 s;
- Website opening time - 5 s;
- Authorization time in the Google mail account - 1 s;
- Video start time - 1 s;
- Installation time - 1.5 min.
When installing here, by the way, some additional content is downloaded, which makes the whole process a little longer.
Otherwise, Google Chrome performs really well, but still a little worse than Opera.
And despite the fact that it is this browser that many authors of such articles call the fastest.
As you can see, tests in real conditions gave a different result.
Advantages and disadvantages of Google Chrome
Also, users who choose a program to access the Internet will be very useful to know about the following benefits of Google Chrome:
- Safety. This is given great attention here. Google Chrome has a huge number of additional programs and scripts that protect against all sorts of attacks and viruses. In addition, this browser has its own database with these same viruses and malicious sites.
- Mode "Incognito", which allows you to quietly be on different sites. This means that the site will not leave a cookie or any other information about the stay of a user working in Incognito mode.
- stability at work. It is very rare to hear about Google Chrome that it is reloading or failing to withstand a large number of sites.
- Your "Task Manager", which makes it possible to see how many resources a particular site consumes, as well as a plugin.
- Normal work with extensions. It is also very rare to hear complaints about this.
- Voice search control.
The disadvantages include the following:
- No support for NPAPI plugins since version 42.0. A lot of modern plugins work on this platform. And users are faced with the difficulties of installing them or even with the inability to complete this task.
Otherwise, Google Chrome performs just fine.
As you can see, its speed is not too inferior to Opera, therefore, given all the other advantages, it is not surprising that this particular browser is called the best to date.
Mozilla Firefox
In 2014, in all foreign surveys, this browser took a strong first place. But then the two programs described above took the leading positions from.
Still, what contribution the “cunning fox”, as many users call it, has made to the development of browsers in general deserves respect.
By good tradition, the site has one big “Download for free” button.
The site no longer has any license agreements. And in general, the download occurs automatically and this process does not delay anything.
In the installer window, you can use additional settings. The settings window is shown in Figure #6.
As you can see, you can specify in it where the program shortcuts should be installed, the installation path, and whether this browser should be made the main one.
Advice: When installing, be sure to use the advanced settings window, because otherwise, program shortcuts will appear on the taskbar, on the desktop and in the Start menu, which users often do not need! In addition, installation information will be sent to Mozilla, and the browser itself will become the default browser.
To open this very window of additional settings at startup, click the "Settings" button, highlighted in Figure No. 7.
The installation itself also begins with downloading additional files. This, of course, makes the process longer.
Mozilla Firefox uptime tests yielded the following results:
- Browser startup time - 5 s;
- Website opening time - 3 s;
- Authorization time in the Google mail account - 1 s;
- Video start time - 2 s;
- Installation time - 1.35 min.
Advantages and disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox
The benefits of Mozilla Firefox are as follows:
- Reliability at work. There are plugins that can "kill" absolutely all browsers except Mozilla Firefox.
- Security and privacy at the highest level. This is the only browser of its kind that can block the collection of information about a particular user by sites, including Google. This makes it possible not to see annoying ads that are generated at the request of this user.
- Version updates happen in the background.
- In addition, the widest base of plug-ins and extensions mentioned above should also be included here.
The disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox are:
- Immunity of some modern scripts.
- Frequent complaints about slow operation, especially at high loads.
From all this, we can conclude that Mozilla Firefox clearly cannot be considered the fastest browser for Windows 7.
Yandex browser
This is the youngest modern browser among those used by several million people. Users first heard about this browser in 2012.
Now, in 2017, Yandex is actively promoting its product using contextual advertising. Here, of course, everything is aimed at working directly with Yandex services.
So in this browser by default there is already mail, a translator, a disk, money and everything else that only the most popular Russian search engine offers.
By the way, the engine in Yandex.Browser is the same Chromium. Many users say that this program has its own quick launch panel, which is called "Scoreboard" here.
This is considered a feature of Yandex.Browser, but for a simple layman, this is practically the same bookmarks bar that is in the same Opera.
True, there it is much more functional.
You can host 20 different sites on Tablo.
An interesting feature of this browser is the work with mouse gestures.
This means that there is a certain set of gestures that are formed by certain cursor movements and perform certain functions.
There are also a huge number of extensions and plugins, most of which are taken from the already beloved Google Chrome.
This is due to the fact that these two browsers run on the same Chromium engine.
You can download Yandex.Browser on the official website - browser.yandex.ru.
Although, if you visit the site yandex.ru several times, you will definitely see an advertisement for this browser and you can follow the link to download it.
This site also has a great big "Download" button.
The results of testing the speed of this browser gave the following results:
- Browser startup time - 11 s;
- Website opening time - 4 s (the first launch, by the way, gave a result of 24 seconds);
- Authorization time in the Google mail account - 4 s;
- Video start time - 2 s;
- Installation time - 2.10 min.
During installation, it is also possible to make Yandex.Browser the default browser and make it possible to send data to Yandex specialists.
To do this, check the box marked in green in Figure 9.
Most users prefer to uncheck these boxes, which is not at all surprising.
As you can see, in terms of speed, Yandex.Browser clearly loses to the same Mozilla Firefox.
Advantages and disadvantages of Yandex.Browser
The advantages of Yandex.Browser are as follows:
- Developers pay great attention to security. So the program automatically checks a particular site for suspicion. It has its own criteria for suspiciousness (Web of Trust), as well as programs installed by default to block phishing attacks and ads.
- Own system for viewing documents in such formats as .pdf, .doc and others.
- Your translator.
- Turbo mode, like in Opera.
The disadvantages include the following:
- The imposition of Yandex services, which many users do not like. Although, on the other hand, this browser was created precisely for this.
A lot of people don't like the interface. - Difficulties in setting. Many functions that are in the same Opera or Mozilla are simply not here in Yandex.Browser.
In general, from all this we can conclude that Yandex.Browser is far from the fastest and most optimized browser.
A browser is a piece of software that is essential in every computer. You can choose and download a browser for Windows 7, 8, 10 for free on our website.
We have collected the most popular latest Russian browser versions of 2018.
Why is it needed? Firstly, it is designed to work on the Internet (and this is necessary everywhere these days). It opens web pages and all kinds of web documents. Secondly, the browser also comes to the rescue in managing the machine, making it easy to view computer files and their directories. Regarding the management of web applications - also to the browser.
To date, browsers for Windows - a truly great variety. You can download the best browsers for Windows from our website. And they differ not only in the shortcut that you see on the desktop (although it’s a sin to complain here, the developers tried to make each one individual and not like the others). All sorts of additional features, built-in extensions that give the user all the new features and make life easier on the network. One gets the feeling that developers from different companies are just competing with each other. And, perhaps, somewhere it is. The competition among browsers is serious, so you have to puzzle over how to stand out so that users choose your product. You can download several browsers and try them out, leaving the most convenient for you.
Nevertheless, if we discard all the additional "goodies", the browsers look very similar. Even despite the fact that they were created using different engines. This is due to international standards that all developers follow. They do this not out of hopelessness (no one twists their arms and does not force them to work ONLY like that). However, uniform requirements make it possible to ensure that all information will be displayed correctly in the browser, and the user will not want to put the mixer in his eyes when he sees the open page.
Browsers are distributed for free, they don’t take up much space, they don’t conflict with each other (unless everyone wants to be the “Default Browser” without fail). So it is not uncommon for several such programs to be installed on one computer at once, according to the principle “each is good in something of his own.” This option is also convenient when several users work on the same machine at once - each has its own browser, and there are no problems with saving tabs, bookmarks and passwords.
So you can start downloading from our site right now as many browsers as you need, and those that you like. If it suddenly turns out that you made a mistake, and the browser of your dreams is not hidden behind the “beautiful label”, you can always replace it with another one.
