The Table of Browsers

Name Spyware Rating Offered Toolkits (Where applicab

Arora Not Rated
Atlas Nyxt Not Rated
BadWolf Not Spyware WebKit
Basilisk Not Rated
Brave High
Dillo
Dissenter High
Dooble Not Rated
Edge Not Rated, known to be bad
Eolie Not Rated
Falkon Probably not Spyware
Fiber Unreleased
GNOME Web Not Rated
GNU IceCat Not Spyware
Google Chrome EXTREMELY HIGH
Internet Explorer EXTREMELY HIGH
IceWeaselUXP
Iridium Low
K-Melon Not Rated
K-Melon G Not Rated
Kristall Not Rated
Lariza Not Rated
Librewolf Low
Luakit Not Spyware
Lynx Not Spyware
Midori Not Rated
Minbrowser Not Rated
Mozilla Firefox High
Netsurf Low GTK3, GTK2, Framebuffer
Opera EXTREMELY HIGH
Opera Gaming
Orbit Navigator
Otter Browser Not Spyware
Pale Moon Medium
Paprika Not Rated
Pocket Browser Not Rated
Qutebrowser Not Spyware
Suckless Surf Not Spyware
SeaMonkey High
SecBrowser Deprecated.
SlimJet EXTREMELY HIGH
Sphere Browser Possible Spyware
SRWare Iron EXTREMELY HIGH
Superbird Not Rated
Taokaizen Not Rated
thdwd
Tobin Borealis Not Rated
Tor Browser Low
Trinity Konqueror Not Rated
Twibright Links Not Rated
Ungoogled Chromium Not Spyware
Uzbl Unmaintained
Viper Not Rated QT5
Vivaldi Medium
Waterfox Classic High
Waterfox G3 Not Rated
Webbrowser/WereFox Not Spyware GTK2
WebDiscover EXTREMELY HIGH
w3m Not Rated
Xombrero Unmaintained
Yandex Not Rated

Arora
A WebKit based browser that died, came back, and then died again. Apparently it was forked into EndorphinBrowser.
Atlas Nyxt
A browser that tries new things interface wise, going for an emacs-esqe sort of thing it seems like.
BadWolf
A simple WebKit based browser using GTK. Has enable/disable buttons for JavaScript and Images. Doesn't work well with extre
Basilisk
UXP based, looks like a slightly older version of Firefox. By the Palemoon people. There is a de-branded version called Serpent
Brave
Yet another Chromium browser that's still spywareistic. So bad they will pay you to use the it. Has it's own crypto currency, an
Dillo
A seemingly unmaintained but indie browser, with a focus on being multi-platform and having a small footprint.
Dissenter
A Brave (Chromium) based browser by Gab, which is a social media site and "alternative" to Twitter that uses the Mastodon co
Dooble
A fork or continuation or something of the old dooble browser. QT based, so it's Chromium.
Microsoft Edge
It used it's own rendering engine (EdgeHTML, a pared down version of IE[11]), before switching to Chromium[5]. Replaced IE a

11. What's powering Spartan? Internet Explorer, of course, 1/23/2015 https://www.neowin.net/news/whats-powering-spar

12. Microsoft details its legacy Edge browser phase-out strategy, 2/5/2021 https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-details

Eolie
Looks a lot like GNOME Web. Uses the same engine, but is written in Python. Unclear what other differences there are.
Falkon
Doesn't accept extensions from any other browser, but has it's own adblocker, GreaseMonkey and the like. Used to be called
Fiber
An obscure experimental KDE browser for which no source or release has ever been given[13]. Apparently it was either directl

13. Fiber: Yet Another Web Browser For Qt/KDE - Phoronix, 7/19/2015 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_it
14. The New KDE "Fiber" Web Browser Deciding Between Qt WebEngine & Chromium - Phoronix, 8/5/2015 https://www.ph
15. Spooky Scary Post-Halloween Monster Post, 11/2/2015 https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/spooky-scary-post-hal

GNOME Web
Used to be, and sometimes still also called Epiphany. Could be called "Safari, Linux edition". It's a WebKit based browser by th
GNU IceCat
Attacks the JavaScript trap by using an extension called LibreJS, which is more concerned about licensing it seems like (though
Google Chrome
Also known as "Noodle Dome", it is the most widly used browser in existence. A spyware platform, not a single a person in the
Internet Explorer
Often used to install a different browser, IE was once the most dominant browser. It was deprecated by Edge. Hey, at least the
IceWeaselUXP
Another UXP-based browser (Basilisk). A spiritual successor to the original Iceweasel, which was a de-branding of FF. Related t
Iridium
Use Ungoogled-Chromium instead.
Better than Chromium, worse than Ungoogled-Chromium. UGC incorporates it's patches along with others, and is rated at a lo
K-Melon
An M$ Windows-only Firefox fork. Possibly dead? Archive link to the site.
K-Melon G
Goanna version of K-Melon.
Kristall
Kristall is a Gemini, Gopher and HTTP client. No JabbaScript, wasm or even CSS support. Pretty minimalist. It appears to be com
Lariza
Yet another WebKit browser using GTK3.
Librewolf
Could be called UnMozilla'd Firefox. Like UGC, it tries to patch out all of the spyware and bad things in FF. Just like UGC, this is
Luakit
WebKit, Vim keys, and Lua.
Lynx
A very minimal TUI/terminal browser. Also a Gopher client.
Midori
A browser that used to be kinda cool but then got bought out and decided to be a meta-web app by using electron[16].

16. Midori Web Browser and its evolution, 11/18/2020 https://astian.org/en/midori-web-browser-and-its-evolution/ https:/

Minbrowser
Ooooh it's "smarter" and says stuff like "Protect your privacy", it's "Open Source" heehoohoo hahaha "Min is written entirely w
Mozilla Firefox
Controlled opposition. Mozilla is pro-censorship. It is spyware. Read digdeeper.
Netsurf
The small amount of spyware can be easily mitigated [Tor/Onion] [I2P/Eepsite].
An actually independent browser that uses it's own layout engine. Makes web browsing very fast and minimal, though it lacks
Opera
Used to use it's own in-house Presto engine, before being bought out by a Chinese company and then switching to Google's Ch
Opera Gaming
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Orbit Navigator
A fork/rebranding of Male Poon, which itself was a fork of PaleMoon. Unclear if this is a serious project or not.
Otter
Do you want all the UI of of old Opera, with all the Chromium dependence of modern Opera? Well I have just the browser for
PaleMoon
Aka Palememe. Use Webbrowser/Werefox instead unless you are on Windows/Mac. Read digdeeper.
Paprika
Some sort of recipe and grocery list manager that also includes a browser. It's in this list as more of a joke.
Pocket Browser
? I guess it's based on Chromium?
Qutebrowser
Designed for people who like Vim-keys. Based on qtwebengine (Chromium), and written in Python.
Suckless Surf
A WebKit based browser (think Safari) by the Suckless project.
Viper
A lesser known blink/chromium based browser. Has potential, but currently not much is known about it.
SeaMonkey
Possibly the most anti-Unix Philosophy browser in existence other than Vivaldi, it's not just a web browser, but also an email c
SecBrowser
Was based on Tor Browser (Firefox). Now it's dying. RIP. TBH though there is WAY TO MANY FF and Chrome based browsers. I
SlimJet
More Chromium, with spyware?? Just what I wanted!
Sphere Browser
...
SRWare Iron
Spyware
Superbird
More Chromium. Yawn.
Taokaizen
Advanced Chromium. Yet another Chromium based browser.
thdwd
? "The hotdog web browser". According to the description, it uses it's own layout & rendering engine.
Tobin Borealis
Currently vaporware. Somehow based on UXP and SeaMonkey at the same time. Binary Outcast is some sort of organization b
Tor Browser
The recommended way of browsing Tor (Tor is just a proxy and can be used from almost any browser). The idea is that everyo
Trinity Konqueror
Used to be by KDE, but Trinity forked all of KDE3 and continued it. Can create archives of pages (?).
Twibright Links
Note: their site is HTTP-only. Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210120152559/http://links.twibright.com/ A mi
Ungoogled-Chromium

Probably the best Chromium based browser. UGC tries to disable all of the spyware inherent in Chromium using a mix of patch

If you are using Windows (you shouldn't be if you really care about nanonymity), you can set UGC in the chrlauncher config fo

If you want to access the Google Chrome Store (for extensions and whatnot) you can install an extension.
Uzbl
A webkit based browser that is apparently unmaintained. Reminds me of Suckless Surf in it's description.
Vivaldi
A very bloated proprietary browser that is claimed to be "what Opera should have been", as it run by the a team of former Op

17. Vivaldi is building “Opera as it should’ve been”, 1/16/2017 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/vi

Waterfox Classic
Not to be confused with Waterfox-G3. And interesting concept that promises privacy but ultimately falls flat.
Waterfox G3
Not to be confused with Waterfox Classic.
Webbrowser
Also sometimes called "werefox". An actually good browser that was forked from palememe, and removes silly "features" suc
WebDiscover
I guess it's big shtick is having a browser bar at the top of the desktop?
w3m
A minimalist (TUI) web browser that is often also used as a library to give web or image related support within an application (
Xombrero
?
Digdeeper said this:

digdeeper: >xombrero has been retired and is no longer under development and supported.
digdeeper: xombrero had big potential
digdeeper: it was the ONLY browser out there caring about security / privacy BY DEFAULT
digdeeper: and then it died
Yandex
Yandex's (which is akin to Google in Russia) web browser. Appears to be geared towards increasing Yandex's share of the brow
 The Table of Browsers
Based on

WebKit, Chromium
Linux, BSD
UXP
Chromium

Chromium
EdgeHTML (Legacy), Chromium (since 2
WebKit
qtwebengine

WebKit
Firefox
Chromium

Chromium
Gecko
Goanna

WebKit
Firefox
WebKit
fork of libwww
WebKit (formerly), Electron (current)

Netscape Navigator
N/A
Chromium

Goanna
qtwebkit
forked from Firefox, UXP

qtwebengine
WebKit2/GTK3
Netscape Navigator

Chromium
?
Chromium
 Chromium
Chromium

UXP
Firefox
KHTML
N/A
Chromium (with patch sets from Iridiu

QtWebEngine/Chromium
Chromium
fork of Firefox
fork of Firefox
Fork of Palemoon

Itself

Chromium

s forked into EndorphinBrowser.

it seems like.

and Images. Doesn't work well with extremely bloated sites (ie Lowes or Home Depot), but can sometimes work where Librewolf does no

re is a de-branded version called Serpent on the AUR.

se the it. Has it's own crypto currency, and "shield" thing that's supposed to protect you from trackers. Outclassed by eMatrix, uBlock Orig

nd having a small footprint.

tive" to Twitter that uses the Mastodon code base (a story in and of itself), but does not federate and blocks darknets and forces you to us

e switching to Chromium[5]. Replaced IE as a browser used by people on Windows to install other browsers. Edge Legacy will be 'uninstalle

w.neowin.net/news/whats-powering-spartan-internet-explorer-of-course
www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-details-its-legacy-edge-browser-phase-out-strategy/

what other differences there are.

 eMonkey and the like. Used to be called QupZilla and use QtWebKit.

given[13]. Apparently it was either directly or indirectly based on Chromium[14]. The project was put on hold in November 2015[15].

w.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-KDE https://web.archive.org/web/20160806013620/http://www.ph
um - Phoronix, 8/5/2015 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-Engines https://web.archive.or
.com/2015/11/02/spooky-scary-post-halloween-monster-post/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201108105212/https://kver.wordpress.co

dition". It's a WebKit based browser by the GNOME people.

ned about licensing it seems like (though it can also replace scripts similiar to uBlock), as well as another assortment of free software-focu

ware platform, not a single a person in their right mind & aware of the facts should be using it.

was deprecated by Edge. Hey, at least they bothered to make their own engine for it, unlike now, where everything is a Chrome ripoff. IE w

which was a de-branding of FF. Related to the Hyperbola project.

hes along with others, and is rated at a lower spyware level. I don't know of a good reason to use this browser.

ort. Pretty minimalist. It appears to be completely unable to read XHTML (however there are patches for this which or may not have been

and bad things in FF. Just like UGC, this is an uphill battle, and depends on Mozilla. I applaud their efforts.

eta-web app by using electron[16].

ri-web-browser-and-its-evolution/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201119185306/https://astian.org/en/midori-web-browser-and-its-evo

ehoohoo hahaha "Min is written entirely with CSS and JavaScript using Electron" HA. FYI Electron is based on Chromium. It's web app: the
 ing very fast and minimal, though it lacks support for many things, which in a way is a good thing. However, it's so minimal it can't even di

ompany and then switching to Google's Chromium. Spyware. Definitely one of the worst browsers you could possibly choose.

s a serious project or not.

n Opera? Well I have just the browser for you!!

Read digdeeper.

list as more of a joke.

tten in Python.

h is known about it.

ot just a web browser, but also an email client, an IRC client, an editor, and an RSS reader. But still based on the Mozilla stuff, it's the closes

O MANY FF and Chrome based browsers. If you gotta have your Firefox, look at Librewolf.

endering engine.

ary Outcast is some sort of organization by the notoriously maniacal Tobin, who is a developer and forum moderator for the Palememe ("P

most any browser). The idea is that everyone will have the same fingerprint. Like Firefox, very bloated.

s of pages (?).
0152559/http://links.twibright.com/ A minimalist browser which I hear very good things about.

nherent in Chromium using a mix of patches from Bromite, Iridium and others. However, this is an inherently up hill battle as changes to C

can set UGC in the chrlauncher config for easier updating (if you are on Windows and are using UGC you should get chrlauncher). Note: it

install an extension.

rf in it's description.

een", as it run by the a team of former Opera employees.[17] However it is based on Chromium, not on the old Presto engine that Opera a

com/information-technology/2017/01/vivaldi-opera-one-million-users/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201111190946/https://arstechnic

but ultimately falls flat.

ememe, and removes silly "features" such as their stupid branding®™, the favorites page (which contained spyware), removes the UA by d

ge related support within an application (ie Ranger).

rds increasing Yandex's share of the browser search engine market.

ers
Operating System

Mac, Linux, BSD

Windows, Mac, Linux

Brave & Chromium

Mac, Linux
Windows, Mac, Linux
Linux
Windows, Linux, Haiku

Linux
Linux, Android
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS
Windows

Windows
Windows
Windows, Linux, BSD
POSIX-ish
Linux, Mac
Windows (WSL), BSD, Linux
Windows, Mac, Linux, VMS, DOS386+, OS/2 EMX

Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS

Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Haiku/BeOS, AmigaOS, 9front, Atari TOS, RISC OS

Windows, Mac, Linux, Android

Windows, Mac, Linux

Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android

 Windows, Mac, Linux
Windows, Linux

Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Android, iOS

Linux, BSD
Windows, Linux, BSD, DOS, OS/2, VMS,
Windows, Mac, Linux

Linux, probably Windows and Mac

Windows, Mac, Linux, Android
Windows, Mac, Linux

Linux, BSD
Windows

Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS

tremely bloated sites (ie Lowes or Home Depot), but can sometimes work where Librewolf does not.

nt on the AUR.

and "shield" thing that's supposed to protect you from trackers. Outclassed by eMatrix, uBlock Origin. Read digdeeper.

code base (a story in and of itself), but does not federate and blocks darknets and forces you to use JS and bloated web browsers to signu

E as a browser used by people on Windows to install other browsers. Edge Legacy will be 'uninstalled' by April 2021[12].

partan-internet-explorer-of-course
ails-its-legacy-edge-browser-phase-out-strategy/
 d QupZilla and use QtWebKit.

ctly or indirectly based on Chromium[14]. The project was put on hold in November 2015[15].

_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-KDE https://web.archive.org/web/20160806013620/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-Engines https://web.archive.org/web/20200921095231/https://www
halloween-monster-post/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201108105212/https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/spooky-scary-post-hal

the GNOME people.

gh it can also replace scripts similiar to uBlock), as well as another assortment of free software-focused alternatives like SearXes, a third pa

heir right mind & aware of the facts should be using it.

they bothered to make their own engine for it, unlike now, where everything is a Chrome ripoff. IE was also once the default browser on e

d to the Hyperbola project.

lower spyware level. I don't know of a good reason to use this browser.

ompletely unable to read XHTML (however there are patches for this which or may not have been merged upstream).

is an uphill battle, and depends on Mozilla. I applaud their efforts.

s://web.archive.org/web/20201119185306/https://astian.org/en/midori-web-browser-and-its-evolution/#

y with CSS and JavaScript using Electron" HA. FYI Electron is based on Chromium. It's web app: the browser. How many times has "Chrom
ks support for many things, which in a way is a good thing. However, it's so minimal it can't even display this page properly. I've heard Jav

Chromium. Spyware. Definitely one of the worst browsers you could possibly choose.

l client, an IRC client, an editor, and an RSS reader. But still based on the Mozilla stuff, it's the closest you can get in the modern day to the

s. If you gotta have your Firefox, look at Librewolf.

n by the notoriously maniacal Tobin, who is a developer and forum moderator for the Palememe ("Palemoon") project, and grand wizard d

yone will have the same fingerprint. Like Firefox, very bloated.
minimalist browser which I hear very good things about.

tches from Bromite, Iridium and others. However, this is an inherently up hill battle as changes to Chromium's very large code base contin

for easier updating (if you are on Windows and are using UGC you should get chrlauncher). Note: it requires administrator mode to actual

Opera employees.[17] However it is based on Chromium, not on the old Presto engine that Opera also switched away from in favor of Chr

/vivaldi-opera-one-million-users/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201111190946/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/0

uch as their stupid branding®™, the favorites page (which contained spyware), removes the UA by default, removes any automatic connec

n (ie Ranger).

owser search engine market.

digdeeper.

bloated web browsers to signup. Includes the Dissenter comment section, allowing you to post comments on any web page, but only if yo

ril 2021[12].
om/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-KDE
0200921095231/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fiber-Web-Browser-Engines
/11/02/spooky-scary-post-halloween-monster-post/

rnatives like SearXes, a third party request blocker. Onion Button, to enable tor networking. "Reveal hidden HTML", unhides hidden HTML,

once the default browser on early versions of Mac OS-X. It was also once available on Unix.

How many times has "Chromium" been mentioned in this entire page?
s page properly. I've heard JavaScript on it is best left disabled.

n get in the modern day to the original Netscape Navigator. That said, it's spyware plain and simple, just like it's more popular and equally

n") project, and grand wizard dragon or something for his "New Tobin Paradigm" self-love cult. I defer to digdeeper for a list of all the silly
m's very large code base continue. As digdeeper says, it doesn't "fully free you from Google's chains".

administrator mode to actually update.

hed away from in favor of Chromium.

nformation-technology/2017/01/vivaldi-opera-one-million-users/

emoves any automatic connections, and removes support for the spyware operating systems known as macOS and Windows. Supports XU
on any web page, but only if you use their software. Is, of course, spyware. I suggest choosing real, decentralized alternatives, not falling f
n HTML", unhides hidden HTML, also, has a tool that fixes some websites with broken form validation Javascript by forcing an HTTP post. A
ke it's more popular and equally mentally disturbed cousin, Firefox.

igdeeper for a list of all the silly problems with palememe.

acOS and Windows. Supports XUL extensions (such as those in the palememe store), also legacy Firefox addons.
ralized alternatives, not falling for fake centralized "alt-tech" memes like Gab and Bitchute.
script by forcing an HTTP post. And HTTPS Everywhere, which forces HTTPS over HTTP. These can of course be removed or replaced with o
be removed or replaced with other extensions and while outside of the notmal uMatrix+uBlock Orgin+Decentraleyes setup, these can als
centraleyes setup, these can also be added to GNU Icecat to complete the suite. Previously called IceWeasel.