Alternatives to Chrome

Browser underdogs and their special abilities

Who says it always has to be Google Chrome? There is a considerable variety of browsers for smartphones and computers and many specialists.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Hersteller, stock.adobe.com)

The internet browser is the software we interact with most frequently in our everyday lives. And with Google Chrome, there is a clear market leader that leaves the competition from Microsoft and Apple miles behind. Yet there are so many exciting "underdogs". Krone+ reveals what they can do.

For more than a decade, one of the first steps most Windows users have taken when starting up a new PC is to use Microsoft's default browser and then download and install Google Chrome to use it as their default browser. The annoyance of incompatible websites and Internet Explorer is still in many people's heads - even though Microsoft has been offering a successor for years in the form of Edge, which is now based on the same open source basis as Google Chrome. On smartphones, however, internet users are far less willing to switch - and are therefore missing out on something.