Note that browsing with Tor is much slower than normal as your connection is bounced around different locations to mask its identity.

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Its feature-light, not particularly fast and does little to protect users privacy.

All of them put Google to shame with better browsers made using the same raw materials.

These allow you to run websites in thin strips down the side of the screen.

Trying to keep track of football scores while you browse other sites or get on with work Keep a ticker of live scores in a Web Panel.

You can have separate panels for WhatsApp, Twitter etc and only display them when youre taking a break, preventing them from distracting you from the 18 other more important things youve got to do by 5pm.

If youve got a favorite site you search frequently, you can assign it a letter (say F for Forbes) and then type that letter into your address bar along with a search term to get search results from that site.

And if Vivaldi does something you dont like, you can almost certainly change it, because its hugely customizable.

If you want browser tabs at the bottom of the screen, audio to be silenced by default, or the browsers Dark Mode to kick in at a different time to your operating systems, its all here.

Trackers and ads can be blocked in the browser, although nothing is blocked by default and Vivaldi gives you the option to exempt sites from the blocking.

It was one of the best decisions Microsoft has made in years, because its freed the developers from worrying about the nuts n bolts of the browser engine to focus on great Chrome-beating features.

Collections is a great built-in Edge feature that allows you to drag images or snippets of text into a collection of, say, clothes youd like to buy or artists you admire.

Its a brilliantly simple research tool and Edge retains the link to the original website, so you can go back and buy that dress or re-read the whole interview from which you spliced a quote.

If you use Edge on your mobile device, Collections are synced too.

Most browsers have these now, but Edges allows you to highlight passages of text or scribble on the document (especially handy if your laptop has a stylus), then save those changes for later reference.

Even if you later open that PDF in a different program, such as Adobe Reader, the edits are saved.

Its not as draconian as Brave (below), although you do wonder whether Microsoft would be quite so happy to thwart web advertisers if its own attempts to sell web ads had proved more successful.

That doubtless harms many web publishers, although Brave does try and make amends with its own advertising scheme, which permits only certain types of privacy-friendly ads and smacks a little of poacher turned gamekeeper.

Ultimately, its down to personal conscience whether you think thats fair or not.

You get to select your default search engine during set-up, with options such as the tracker-free DuckDuckGo on the list.

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