Nine desktop browsers in comparison: from slim to versatile Comfort and expandability Performance Individual meetings Conclusion and test table Read article in c’t 2 / 2000 No question: The system browsers Edge, Safari and Firefox – the standard for many Linux distributions – are powerful. Nevertheless, Chrome (or Chromium under Linux) could break into all operating system domains. But then, with these four heavyweights: No other browser can get a significant market share on the desktop.

That’s a shame, because the browser market gives more. For this article, we compared the four “big ones” with five less popular browsers. We only tested on the desktop; an additional comparison on mobile devices would have gone beyond the scope. If there are mobile versions of the browsers, we have indicated this in the table.

Six of the browsers rely on Google’s open source project Chromium / Blink: Brave, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Ungoogled Chromium and Vivaldi. In addition to Firefox itself, Waterfox also uses its Gecko rendering engine. We also included Safari (WebKit) in the test. Safari is the only browser available only for macOS. Due to its close integration with the operating system, it can use the macOS keychain for password management and the content blocker.

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