Introduction

In today’s world we can say that big amount of time we spend on Web. Listening music, reading news, watching videos or movies. Or just surfing the Web. And all that we do trough application called Browser.

So it’s very important for our personal as and our system to be secure in that process. Web security is a much more complex topic, but we will here focus on Browser security. And which are the most secure browsers to access Web. We will brake security in three aspects:

1. Secure from malicious viruses malwers, etc.
2. Secure in terms of our privacy.
   • Can be endangered by individual or corporation endanger.Individual can be some hacker for any reason. Corporate are usually marketing giants as two biggest Google and Facebook. Who use our private data in marketing purposes. But not only for that.
3. Freedom of speech in areas where government is suppressive factor.

So in the next part of the article, We’ll show you which are the safest web browsers for computers and phones. We’re not going to talk about online security at all, because it’s a topic for ourselves.

Disclaimer : We do not priorities any browser, we’re making an opinion based on the facts.

Brave

Brave is a fast modern good-looking browser, based on Chromium engine. Don’t confuse you Chromium to connect it with Chrome. Because Chromium is an open source browser and engine on who and chrome have base, but they are not the same. The chromium engine is fast and reliable. Therefore, Brave is the same.

He comes with security out of the box. It means that you can just install it and with little or no tweeks you are good to go. It has Brave sheald which will prevent cookies trackers and unwanted JavaScript code. Depending on the level security is set, some function of websites may not work. So you can enable or disable some parts of settings depending on needs, or you can enable or disable sheald for the current page or the whole website. Brave have ads program build in, which call brave Rewards who give you tokens every time you see add. It is little contradictory, but you can turn it off and Brave Claims that is secure anonymous. More about you can read in Brave rewards.

Overall Brave is a good Web browser for security and privacy with good performance and if you want to try him you can download here: Download Brave

Mozila Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or Firefox is a free and open source web browser from Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses Gecko engine to render web pages. Which implement current web standards and its fast and reliable. In 2017 Firefox begin to implement a new technology called Quantum for more intuitive user interface. It’s available for Windows Linux macOS Android and IOS platforms.

And unofficial ports are available for Unix and unix-like operating systems. The IOS version use WebKit layout engine due to platform requirements.

It’s overall a good web browser. But with default settings it’s not as secure and private. Lucky lie its most user optimized browser and can be settled up for complete security and privacy. You can read how to set up Firefox for complete privacy and security in our article A Guide How To Set up Mozilla Firefox for max Security and Privacy.

You can download Firefox here: Download Firefox

Tor

Tor web browser is also free and open source. The core principle of TOR is developed by United States Naval Research. By mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag,Who was develop “onion routing”. To protect US intelligence communication online. The alpha version of Tor, developed by Syverson and computer scientists Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson and then called The Onion Routing project (which later simply became “Tor”, as an acronym for the former name),

Tor is by far the most secure and private web browser on list and in general. The work out the box, but can be set up for grater factor of security and privacy. Which you can read in How To Set up TOR for Max Security and Privacy

Tor is not bulletproof and user can be deanonymized. Because user behavior is the most important factor for privacy and security. Tor is distributed on patched version of Mozilla Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release)

Tor can be used in regular surfing but it’s little slower than other browsers due to encryption layers and traffic routing. And can access to hidden or dark web.

There is also onion domains who can be accessed only through tor network. If you search for top level security Tor is the best choice.

Tor is available for Windows Linux macOS Android. But not on IOS, the best replacement is Onion Browser.

When downloading tor ensure that only download from official website www.torproject.org not .com or any other domain only .org.

You can download Tor here: Download Tor

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