4 Browsers That Might Break Your Chrome Addiction

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Google Chrome

What You'll Love: This is the only browser on the list that uses a different rendering engine than Chrome. It also (according to Microsoft's own tests, so, y'know) nets a third better battery life than Chrome, and even better results next to Firefox. Siri gets all the hype, but Cortana is a terrific little virtual assistant. Most of all, Edge is so deeply integrated into Windows 10 that you need a really good reason not to use it there.

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Vivaldi

Vivaldi is to power users what 500-pound squats are to power lifters. Only a few months old, the Vivaldi browser was created by a team that had previously worked on Opera (which we'll talk about next). Its hallmark is customizability; when you first open Vivaldi, you're met with a choice of six different layout options, followed by four tab bar positions, then eight background pictures for your Start page. And that's all before you start actually, you know, browsing.

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Opera

What You'll Miss: Honestly, not much. Opera is built on Blink, as Vivaldi and Chrome are, so you can expect similar performance. In fact, if anything the biggest knock against Opera may be that beyond its privacy and security bona fides, it doesn't offer enough differentiation from Chrome to be worth the jump.

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Brave

It's hard to say too much about how Brave works in practice, since a full version won't be out until later this summer (although you can beta-test your heart out right now). In theory, though, Brave wants to upend the way web monetization works. The upshot: Brave will block intrusive ads by default, but also go the extra, controversial step of replacing them with relevant ads that don't track you.

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Microsoft Edge

Internet Explorer remains one of the world's most popular browsers, despite having been replaced by Edge in Windows 10. That's a shame, because Edge makes some significant improvements not just over IE, but the rest of the field. It's fast, efficient, has a powerful digital assistant built in, and has the backing and resources of one of the biggest tech companies in the world behind it. There's not much that's sexy about Edge, but maybe you shouldn't be looking for sexy in a browser to begin with.

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