Top 10 Web Browsers for Business

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2024. Opera now lets users access Aria AI without login on desktop and mobile



Opera now lets all desktop and gaming users, as well as users of Opera for Android use the in-browser AI, Aria, without having to log in. The Aria AI tool is quite powerful with Image Generation and Understanding, Page Context mode and more. The Page Context mode integrates Aria more deeply into the browser, allowing the users to ask Aria questions about the content on the webpage. This is an improvement that users on Chrome and other browsers don't yet enjoy. Opera's Aria uses the AI Composer engine, which can select the most suitable model from OpenAI or Google's Gemini to handle queries. Essentially, Opera is leveraging Google technology to outperform Chrome.


2023. Palo Alto has acquired secure browser Talon



Palo Alto Networks has acquired Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security for $625 million. Talon Cyber Security develops enterprise browser designed to secure distributed workforce. It enables organizations to shield work-related activities without interfering with personal device usage or compromising user privacy. By integrating Talon's browser with Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks aims to enable secure web-surfing for all users on all devices. Talon’s idea of an enterprise secure browser — is still a relatively innovative concept in the market. Though, it has already some competitors: Island is another company in the same space.

2023. Vivaldi launches an iOS version of its browser



In the wonderfully unpredictable world of browsing, Vivaldi, that delightfully quirky alternative browser, has finally made its eccentric debut on iOS, following its initial escapade onto Android back in 2018. Of course, thanks to Apple’s rather dogmatic insistence that all iOS browsers must worship at the altar of WebKit, Vivaldi's iOS version dutifully complies with this engine. But fret not! Vivaldi brings its signature flourish with a desktop-like tab bar that proudly displays all your open tabs without the need to venture into a tedious tab switcher—unless, of course, you prefer the button-free existence, in which case, a simple setting tweak banishes it. Meanwhile, the tab switcher itself remains a treasure chest of open tabs, private browsing, synced wonders from other Vivaldi instances and even tabs that have met an untimely end. And for the truly impatient, a long-press on the tab switcher lets you summon a new tab, a private one, or swiftly close the current tab before it knows what hit it.


2023. Microsoft is bringing AI Copilot features to Edge



It is a truth universally acknowledged, especially by those inhabiting the digital highways and byways, that Microsoft has set its heart on elevating Edge to the pinnacle of business browsers—whether the rest of the universe has requested such a browser or not. Recently, with the sort of unassuming grandeur only Microsoft could pull off, they announced a series of AI-powered upgrades to Edge, highlighted by the advent of Microsoft 365 Copilot (the enterprise-grade digital assistant you never realized you needed but now will apparently wonder how you ever lived without). Microsoft 365 Copilot will discreetly insert itself into the very fabric of your browsing experience, poised to do all sorts of marvelous things in the name of productivity and workflow enhancement. Its particular talent? To quietly rummage through the grand archives of Microsoft’s data stores—calendars, emails, chats, documents, the whole lot—then, upon a polite conversational nudge, produce a helpful answer. Say you murmur, “Tell my team about today’s new product strategy updates,” and voilà!—Copilot will sift through the data, gather the intel, and present it as though it’s been your idea all along.


2023. Microsoft launches new Bing and Edge browser with ChatGPT



Microsoft, in a heroic bid to outmaneuver the omnipotent Google (a task rather like trying to teach a rhinoceros to dance ballet), has announced a grand and extravagant scheme to stuff OpenAI's GPT-4 model into Bing, a search engine that up until now has been about as popular as a lecture on advanced quantum physics delivered in semaphore. As rumors foretold, the new Bing sports a shiny chat option right in the toolbar, which then drags you merrily into a ChatGPT-like conversational experience, presumably one capable of understanding your existential dread about the whole situation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s Edge browser is getting a facelift too, complete with an AI-infused sidebar designed to help you do very important things like summarizing search results in a way that makes you feel as if you’re the only person who truly understands them, or chatting with AI bots who might, in turn, give you eerily pertinent answers or philosophical musings about the futility of it all.


2022. DuckDuckGo’s Mac app is open to public with new features



DuckDuckGo - the privacy-oriented browser for Mac is now available and has introduced new features, including a “Duck Player” to shield users from targeted ads and cookies when they watch YouTube videos. With the new Duck Player, YouTube will still count views, but none of the videos will contribute to a user’s YouTube advertising profile, so they won’t see personalized ads. Additional new features include pinned tabs, a bookmarks bar, the option to view locally stored browsing history, quick access to built-in email protection and password protection from the open-source password manager Bitwarden. The browser can also automatically manage cookie pop-ups on “substantially more sites."


2022. Microsoft’s Edge browser gets shared Workspaces



Microsoft has introduced several user-facing updates to its Edge browser. The most notable among these is probably Edge Workspaces, a new feature (currently in preview) that enables teams to share browser tabs. Microsoft suggests that this feature can be helpful when onboarding new team members to an existing project. Instead of sharing numerous links and files, the team can simply share a single link to an Edge Workspace (which will then likely contain many links and files, but at least it’s just one link to share). As the project progresses, the tabs are updated in real time. It’s a potential use case. We’ve seen various extensions offering similar functionalities, although none have gained significant popularity. Meanwhile, teams continue to share these links and files using other methods (think Confluent, etc.).


2022. Mozilla brings free, offline translation to Firefox



Mozilla has introduced an official translation tool to Firefox that doesn’t depend on cloud processing to carry out its tasks, instead performing the machine learning–based process directly on your own computer. It’s a significant advancement for a widely-used service traditionally linked to giants like Google and Microsoft. The translation tool, named Firefox Translations, can be added to your browser. It will need to download some resources the first time it translates a language and likely it may download enhanced models if necessary, but the actual translation work is done by your computer, not in a data center a few hundred miles away.


2021. Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader



Vivaldi has always been one of the more intriguing Chromium-based browsers, largely due to its focus on creating tools for power users within a privacy-focused framework. Today, the Vivaldi team is unveiling version 4.0 of its browser, introducing a range of new features that, among other things, include the beta release of built-in mail, calendar and RSS clients, as well as the debut of Vivaldi Translate, a privacy-conscious translation service hosted on the company’s own servers and powered by Lingvanex.


2021. Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium



Working across numerous browser tabs and windows can feel like the most frustrating and friction-filled experience. This is the challenge Sidekick Browser is addressing by adding a productivity-oriented layer on top of Chromium that it describes as a “work OS.” Tired of managing multiple tabs? Sidekick’s solution is to enable you to work within apps that reside in the browser, rather than scattered across various windows and tabs. Apps like Slack, Skype and WhatsApp can be pinned in a vertical stack in the sidebar, allowing for easy access and switching between them. It also supports multiple logins, detailed notification controls and the ability to search across all these third-party apps directly from the browser.