Best for privacy

Why should you care about privacy? Well, Google, Amazon, and

Facebook know everything about you – probably because you told them. Google, because it owns your life now; Amazon, because it owns your shopping habits; and Facebook, as it owns your social networks. The idea that you should use a Googlebranded browser that helps you to log into your Google account before you browse anywhere should be ringing alarm bells. The same should go for a browser produced by the company that also developed your operating system. This sort of duality of function is begging for total surveillance.

In terms of privacy, Mozilla’s

Firefox is hard to beat. Firefox, based on the Gecko engine, has been around in one form or another since 1998. Mozilla is an open-source organisation dedicated to protecting an open Internet and user privacy.

So, with Firefox’s combination of cutting-edge performance, sweet suite of features, and mindfulness of privacy, you’d be foolish not to be using it as your daily driver.

There is a step beyond this, though: the Tor browser. It’s based on Firefox, but utilises the anonymising Onion network to hide your browsing inside a bundle of encryption. The downside is that it’s slower and has various issues confusing web hosts. It’s also worth considering one of the feature browser; as none is connected to a large corporation, they’re far more likely to take your privacy into consideration.