Another Firefox: 5 alternative browsers
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Tell me, what browsers you know?
Chrome, Firefox, Opera... So, well... Yandex. Browser, Maxthon... Excellent! There are suggestions?
What if I tell you that there are so many different browsers that do not have enough fingers to bend all the limbs? Do not believe me?
Well then, sit down and listen, today we will focus on based on the Firefox browser.
The heart of each browser, its foundation and the foundation, is a web page output mechanism, also called the engine. All the programs reviewed in this paper, work on the engine, Gecko - product of Mozilla Corporation. Apply it under a free license, so use it all and sundry.
Waterfox
Site: http://waterfoxproject.org
Platform: Windows Vista (x64), Windows 7 (x64), Windows 8 (x64)
Waterfox - a special version of the Firefox browser, optimized for 64-bit systems. The creators claim that they were able to achieve a significant increase in speed due to Intel's Math Library optimization, SSE3, AVX and other smart technologies. All your extensions and add-ons will continue to work in this browser.
- Who needs itIf you have a 64-bit system and you want to squeeze a little more speed out of your browser. In all other respects, it is all the same Firefox.
Pale Moon
Site: http://www.palemoon.org
Platform: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7, 8 x32 or x64
Another attempt to polish and improve the source code of Firefox for speed never seen before. Furthermore hidden under the hood changes, designed for maximum acceleration of the work program on modern processors, there are small changes in the user interface. By the way, everyone who does not accept the advance of the coming of the new Australis interface in Firefox, you should consider switching to this program.
- Who needs itIf you want to squeeze more speed out of your browser, and do not want to use Firefox future design.
SeaMonkey
Site: http://mozilla-russia.org/products/seamonkey
Platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS
Today, few people remember, but Firefox gemmated at the time of the project Mozilla Suite, which is a complete set of tools, needed for the Internet: web-browser, email client, calendar, IRC-client ChatZilla, simple HTML-editor and tools for Web-developers. This harvester is still alive, and though not very active, but it continues to grow, and it even has a certain circle of admirers. The advantages of this approach include the fact that in one package you get everything you need for your daily work, thus, this is more economical system resources are used than during the simultaneous use of separate programs. SeaMonkey is more convenient to set up, as many options are right on all of the components, and to complete the work with them takes a lot less extensions. This positive effect on stability.
- Who needs it: This product is interested, first of all, fans of multi-solutions "all-in-one", as well as fans of the old, proven for decades, the classical solutions.
Tor Browser Bundle
Site: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS
Tor - this is one of the most advanced and reliable technologies to bypass all restrictions on the network and keep your privacy. To help her use the maximum number of people, the creators developed a special browser based on Firefox. It differs from the original only Tor integrated tools and the availability of several special enhancements that ensure your privacy.
- Who needs it: Those who want to access blocked sites or worry about hiding traces of their activities in the network.
Avant Browser Ultimate
Site: http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Platform: Windows
The most exotic participant of this review. It contains just three popular engine - from IE browsers, Chrome and Firefox. It would seem that, during these monsters long gone, but the project is not going to give up or even release new versions. Avant is a ready-to-use tool that already contains everything you need to work users: download manager, advertising blocker, form filling, saving screenshots, read RSS and so Further. Therefore, this browser is often chosen novice users who do not wish to refine the functionality naked browser.
- Who needs it: If you need a browser that can display pages in three engines and at the same time ready to use immediately after installation.
It's not all browsers that are based on the Firefox browser. Is there some more PirateBrowser, Wyzo, K-Meleon and several others. But I decided not to burden you with too much information, as some of them, apparently, is not developed, while others, even for me, a great lover of exotic and experiments caused confusion.
Well, tomorrow we'll see what navayal lovers Chromium engine. I must say that there is no less interesting zoo.