There are a lot more web browsers than you probably know, and so here are the best ones so you don't have to look!

The category on PolyTools has a variety of options, but honestly you shouldn't look too wide unless you're looking to experiment for fun. If you're here for being productive, and you're tired of your current browser for whatever reason.

You have come to the right place then, and that is why I made this post. To keep it simple.

#3 - Arc (If Chromium), Zen (If Firefox)

While I personally am not a fan of this new style of interaction with the internet. Zen being a firefox version of Arc, by a different developer, the two browsers are very similar in interface design.

I personally daily drove Arc for quite some time, and unlike some other chromium browsers it actually worked with things like Riverside for example.

Although I had a really hellish time with the bookmark management, as it just saves them as saved links in your tab organizer instead. Meaning when I LEFT Arc, I had to pull out every link MANUALLY. I actually took this time to save a majority of them simply to a database on Notion though, but I wanted to warn you.

Zen looks really nice, and if I were to go back to this style of browser I would choose it actually.

#2 - Surf

I particularly am really interested in this note taking orientation to having a web browser. Surf wanted to be a solution to the context switching that most browsers make you deal with. Keeping your notes, pdfs, websites, all sort of in one place.

Really unique, the only other alternative I can think of is actually just using the core Web Browser plugin in Obsidian to achieve this all in one style solution.

#1 - Opera

This is what I daily drive, after switching over from Opera GX. I found that Arc was way too unstable, and the "creative" changes to how you interact with the internet or bookmarks I felt to be tedious at best.

After Firefox lost so much support from various tool sites like Riverside or Opus, etc, none of these creator tools support it. It means that it makes it really hard to use. Opera GX caught my eye due to the clean interface, and gaming features. However it comes with so so so much bloat, and the stability would sometimes falter too. I found that just using the basic Opera (after it merged with OperaOne), that it just works best. It isn't as limiting as Brave, isn't as demanding or spyware as Chrome, and isn't as pushy as Edge. Overall a great balance for having a chromium based browser, that ISN'T chrome.

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Quick shout out for the AI based browsers that are on the rise, such as Dia, Comet, or Fellou.

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