Hey what's up, guys and girls. I've never really introduced myself here due to anxiety and fear of being rejected/not fitting in but my name is Seth and I'm a 29 year old white guy who was born in Florida, but has lived in Ireland since January 8th, 2016 because my dad was born in Ireland but went to the Usa when he was 20, but was finally deported back after being sent to prison for 11 years when I was 14. My life in the Usa wasn't going so well (I was forced to be homeless because I fought back when people tried to abuse me) and now here I am, spending most of the time either in my room or in a building like a store, school, etc because it's just always cold and windy as fuck here.
Anyway, I've done all of the research that I can stand to do on web browsers, and I simply cannot make a decision on which browser is the best one. I see the reviews that say one browser is the fastest and most secure, but I really have no way of knowing just how secure it is, as Google Chrome has failed me more than once, in terms of protecting me from catching malware, and I never go to weird sites, uncommon porn sites, etc., I don't click on weird ads, I'm very aware of what I'm doing online. Probably the riskiest site I go to would be a chatsite that doesn't even have SSL (https) security, and I'm pretty sure I've acquired malware or a virus of some kind from it, despite not replying to, or opening a message box from someone, because, about every 10 or 15 keys that I would press on my keyboard, a random key would repeat about 10 to 20 times, which was infuriatingly annoying and I could not, for the life of me, get it to stop, despite using every antivirus or antimalware I could find. Even factory restoring the computer did not stop this from happening, so I quit using Chrome for a while.
So, I am currently using the Avast Secure Browser, which seems to be pretty good, it has Anti-tracking, Anti-fingerprinting, Adblock, (Which are the only 3 built-in extensions that I have enabled and use. It also has HackCheck, HTTPS Encryption, Avast Passwords, Secureline VPN, Bank Mode, Video Downloader. I am no longer using a regular browser if I go to that chat site, or any website that I deem possibly hazardous to my computer. I now use Windows Defender Application Guard to connect to websites I don't trust. It's basically just Microsoft Edge in a separate environment, so as to protect you from malware, viruses, etc. This Application Guard thing is not very fast, it will even freeze completely for a few seconds, which I believe is due to something other than my computer, as my computer is only a couple of months old, and costed about 600 euros to build. It has a MSI Z370-A Pro Motherboard, an Intel i3-8100 3.60GHz processor, a Geforce GT1030 Graphics card, one 8GB stick of 2,400MHz Corsair Vengeance RAM, and a 120GB M.2 SSD hard drive. It is the first computer I have built in my life, and it is the best computer I have ever had. I have had basically no problems at all with it and am happy with it.
Anyway, before I was using Avast SecureBrowser, I was using Google Chrome Dev, which was pretty good. Pretty smooth and fast, and it apparently receives updates early, so I believed it to be more secure than just plain Google Chrome. As far as I know, I never got any malware/viruses when using Google Chrome Dev but it has crashed a few times, and become unresponsive, so I decided to use another browser. So far, Avast SecureBrowser has done pretty well, but like I said, other than the reviews on Google, I really have no way of knowing if it is more secure than a potato.
What's your take? Your opinion on what the best browser is, or what is your favorite web browser and why?
Also, if no one replies to this thread, that's fine. I'm not gonna get mad, or feel dumb. It's just a thread. Nobody is required to reply to it. Thanks.
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