Maxthon just wants to be fast and efficient, and really, don’t we all? This browser is definitely less feature-packed compared to the last two and won’t win any awards for being customizable.

It still pays publishers a cut of the revenue. It only blocks ads that are seeking out your personal information and replaces those with “clean” ads. Both are also known to collect information about you without your knowledge like your browsing history.ĭon’t worry, though, if you still want to support content creators, Brave is smart about the ads it blocks. Brave automatically block visitor trackers and annoying ads, which can often slow down web page load times. That’s because its entire focus is eliminating ads and trackers. Braveīrave promises to be both “faster” and “safer” than the browsers you’re used to. Vivaldi is available for both Mac and PC and is so far getting rave reviews. Plus, going back to customization, you can add your own commands and shortcuts here too. Another is Quick Commands, which is like Spotlight just for your browser - search through tabs, bookmarks, history, menu items and more at once. Tab stacking is one such feature that lets you group tabs together simply by dragging one on top of the other to keep the window clean and organized. The brilliant features are essentially features that seem completely obvious to have in a modern browser, yet they’re unique to Vivaldi. The browser also has a great tab viewer that can optionally show thumbnails of each tab and sure enough, you can customize the size of those thumbnails too. You can apply different skins and themes, add and remove toolbars, drag them to different sides of the window and more. Vivaldi lets you pretty much change up the entire UI of the browser if you truly want to. Vivaldi is a browser that focuses on two key aspects: complete customization and brilliant features.įirst, customization. Better yet, it just hit version 1.0 which means it’s out of beta and ready for primetime, significantly improved from its earlier days. We’ve written about Vivaldi before because it really stands out from the crowd.

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