Browsers
A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is application software for accessing the World Wide Web and other places.
Agregore
Minimal web browser for the distributed web
Loads web pages and content from peer to peer protocols the same way you would load them from a regular website
Supports: bittorrent://, magnet://, hyper://, dat://, gemini://, ipfs:// and ipns://
Arc
MacOS and Windows only
https://arc.net
https://thebrowser.company
Beaker
Experimental peer-to-peer Web browser
Create P2P sites, edit the source and share!
Brave
Replaces Google ads
Access content directly from the IPFS network.
Resolve ipfs:// URIs natively or via a gateway.
Bromite
Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements.
Android Marshmallow++ mobile only.
Chromium
The OS base browser from Google.
It’s not hardened for security by default.
Firefox
- https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide – FF hardening
- https://mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
- https://github.com/mozilla
Iridium
Hardened Chromium browser alternative
- https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki
- https://iridiumbrowser.de
- https://github.com/iridium-browser/iridium-browser
- git://git.iridiumbrowser.de/iridium-browser
Ladybird
Ladybird Web Browser is a browser using the SerenityOS LibWeb engine with a Qt GUI
Min
A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.
Nyxt
Powerful, programmable browser
Run short scripts, and try out new workflows. Everything in Nyxt is fully extensible and modifiable.
Opera
Puma
Fast and private mobile Web3 browser that makes it easy to support creators, game & app developers and charities of your choice
Powered by Coil and Web Monetization API that enables ad-free and seamless access to premium content
https://pumabrowser.com
Qutebrowser
Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. Based on Python and Qt and free software, licensed GPL
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser
https://qutebrowser.org
Tor browser
Defend yourself. Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.
https://torproject.org/download
unGoogled Chromium
Google Chromium, withoug integration with Google
Retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible
Features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency
Binaries are created by volunteers!
Vivaldi
Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My-Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.
Vivaldi was officially launched on 6 April 2016.
Engines: Blink, V8
Waterfox
Waterfox gives you a sane way to browse the web. Built with you, the user, in mind.
Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos, a then 16 year old student.
Waterfox is powered by Gecko (layout engine developed by Mozilla and used in Firefox, Firefox OS, etc)
Remote browser isolation
There’s an interesting “new” idea of running a virtual browser in a sandbox either in a new VM, or in another browser,
so that the session is deleted automatically and the browser fingerprint becomes more random.
Remote browser isolation, embeddable BrowserView:
Fully programmable that you can connect to your existing browser workloads, powered by Puppeteer or your own custom automation logic.
Similar to Browserless, but different that it’s also serving a niche that needs a more complete browser experience with multiple tabs and same-as-native-browser UI and UX.
Kameleo :: Avoid browser fingerprinting and use virtual profiles while browsing:
Run Firefox GUI inside a sandboxed Docker container:
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=E-GwJwulyxE
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=rCdd6u_FXnQ
- https://github.com/croqaz/browsers
Utils
Up-to-date user.js
to speed up and secure Firefox
about:config tweaks to enhance Mozilla Firefox
https://github.com/yokoffing/Better-Fox
Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
Your data is encrypted and decrypted on your device. No one but you can read it.
No sign up required and no personal data is collected. Just install and sync.
There are no charges for using xBrowserSync and you’ll never see a single ad. Ever.
https://xbrowsersync.org
Test your browser
Information about your device:
https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/info_device
Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
My browser fingerprint - really scary because it’s very fast:
https://amiunique.org/fp
UniqueMachine: is my computer unique?
http://uniquemachine.org
Are you anonymous in the “private tabs”?
https://nothingprivate.ml
CPU stress test in browser:
https://cpux.net/cpu-stress-test-online
Local fonts, web fonts & fingerprinting
https://web.dev/local-fonts
Bot detection: