1. Google Chrome
When it comes to performance and features, Google Chrome is still the top android browser. Google Chrome is the fastest browser with reliable features like voice search, instant search results, translate and ability to compress data to reduce mobile data charges. Chrome has a minimal interface that supports gestures to quickly perform basic tasks such as close tab, reload, navigate and more.
Unfortunately, Chrome for Android doesn’t support plugins and extensions unlike its desktop version, which is a big drawback. If you love Chrome extensions, then you won’t be able to find them here. If interested, you can also check out Chrome Beta if you want to try the newest features before everyone else.
2. Opera
My personal favorite — Opera is lately quite active and adding a lot of great features that may entice many users. Opera recently added a built-in ad blocker in its browser that allows you to block all the ads without any help from third-party apps. Apart from that, Opera is very light on your phone resources as opposed to Chrome and it has a built-in web page and video compressor to let you browse the web with least mobile data usage.
Some of its features include the ability to add websites to device homepage, built-in newsreader, handy gesture controls, Speed dial, and a very intuitive interface.
3. Firefox
Firefox is known for giving you complete control over your privacy, and it does the same job on your Android phone. Similar to other browsers here, it offers a private mode that deletes all the traces of your activity. However, it goes one step further by preventing on page trackers that may be able to track your activity.
Something that you will surely love is Firefox’s support for third-party add-ons that even Google Chrome lacks. You can get all the handy add-ons like ad blockers, performance boosters, download managers, tab controllers and more right from Firefox Add-ons market for Android.
4. Dolphin
Its other features include themes to change the look of the browser, gesture controls, support for add-ons (not as extensive as Firefox though), a built-in download manager for faster downloads, built-in flash player, quick access to search engines, Speed dial and more.
5. UC Browser
UC Browser is another great browser that has some unique features up its sleeves. It uses its Cloud Boost Technology to compress pages and boost page loading time while saving mobile data. It also gives complete control over how you want your browser to look. For example, you can change themes, change text and background color, use your own photo as a background and many other customization options.
It has a special download manager that uses UC Browser’s own servers to speed up downloads and allow you to continue failed downloads from the same point. Some of its other notable features include night mode, gesture control (for videos as well), built-in video and movie hub, ad blocker, text-only mode and automatic page reload.
Which Android Browser Did You like?
So here are the top picks for best Android browser, which one of these you like? I personally use Opera on both desktop and my Android phone for its economical nature that makes good use of my data plan. If you know any other good browser for Android, do let us know in the comments.
