Earlier article covered full fledged Web Browsers.
Benefits of Lite Mobile Web Browsers
- Consume less power, space, RAM and CPU.
- Faster than full fledged browsers.
- Save data with data saver option.
- Do few things but fast.
Cons of Lite Web Browsers
- Most lite browsers do not support installing PWAs.
- They are torn down versions of full fledged browsers.
- Support few features.
Lite Web Browsers
- DuckDuckGo
- Firefox Lite
- Opera Mini
- Puffin
- Snap Search
- Chrome
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
- Fast, secure, lite and privacy focused.
- Block ads and trackers.
- Tap Fire button helps you clear tabs and browsing data with one tap.
- Fireproof websites helps you stay signed in even after clearing data.
- Ability to auto clear data on app exit or after certain period of inactivity.
- Grades each site from A to F on privacy parameters.
- Available only on mobile devices.
Firefox Lite
- Fast and lightweight.
- Download size less than 10 MB.
- Allows you to open only one private tab.
- New Awesome Bar provides more intelligent results.
- Customize home screen based on your interests.
- Play games.
- Enable Turbo mode to block ads and trackers using list from Disconnect.
- Take screenshots.
- Block images to save data.
Puffin
- A full fledged browser mentioned here as it loads websites super fast and consumes less resources.
- Download size less than 30 MB.
- Already mentioned in other article.
- Pro version also available.
Opera Mini
- Fast and privacy focused.
- Download size less than 20 MB.
- Send and receive files easily with File Sharing.
- Night mode available.
- Private browsing available.
- Enable disable news and reader mode on start page.
- Block ads.
- Enable disable to receive notifications from Facebook.
- Data saver.
- Set number of concurrent downloads.
- Option to disable personalised ads.
- Save news and pages offline to read later.
- Add site for speed dial.
- Choose the news category.
Snap Search
- Fast and secure.
- Download size less than 10 MB.
- Incognito mode by default.
- Fingerprints, Flash and Silverlight are disabled.
- Tab History is enabled.
- Blocks ads and trackers.
- Only 1 tab can be open at a time.
- Enable scroll to top if you want.
- Select whether you want to allow or disallow GDPR and Cookie popups.
- Enable disable swipe gestures.
- You can disable Google AMP results in search.
- You can also disable Facebook Click IDs, Google UTM Tags and Twitter AMP Redirects.
- Prevent screenshots.
- Only general news. Select country and number of articles to see.
- Supports 50+ search engines for fast search but only few popular are available for free subscribers.
- Choose user agent of your liking.
- Incognito keyboard.
- History is disabled.
- Does not ask for location permission.
- Save webpage as PDF.
- Save as image.
Paid features
- Access all search engines.
- Enable built in VPN.
- Access all categories of news.
Chrome
- Another full fledged browser but mentioned here as it’s download size has reduced to less than 10 MB on Android.
- Read my other article for more details.
Best Privacy Focused Lite Web Browsers
- DuckDuckGo
- Firefox Lite
- Snap Search
- Puffin
- Opera Mini
