SAFE BROWSERS

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HTTPS Everywhere
Browser plug-in HTTPS Everywhere is an EFF/Tor project that enforces SSL security wherever that’s possible in Chrome, Firefox and Opera. It promises to make what would otherwise be a complex and uncertain process much simpler because it is easy to start out using HTTPS on a website and be sent back to non-HTTPS pages without realising it.

Downsides? It’s another plug-in of course, but it’s worth it. A boon for café surfers everywhere.

Tor

The granddaddy of privacy browsers, Tor has become the watchword for the anti-surveillance movement because it is built on an entire infrastructure of ‘hidden' relay servers. Because it bounces your connection through a number of distributed nodes, it should obscure the public IP address you are connecting to the internet with.

Built atop a modified Firefox, it can be installed on a Windows, Mac or Linux PC but also on a USB stick if that's preferable.

The important thing to remember about Tor is that it is really an advanced privacy browser rather than a secure one, in that it includes no anti-malware technology and blocks plug-ins by design. It’s designed to anonymise a user within certain constraints such as the requirement to use only HTTPS connections (enforced by HTTPS Everywhere – see above).

The Tor Project offers a list of do and don’t for using it securely, including being very careful about downloading and opening documents which require external applications.

Downsides? Using Tor will be slower than with other browsers and it can be demanding to use to its full privacy potential.  Some people think that anyone who uses Tor is trying to hide something. Of course they are right. If privacy is that important, let them think what they want.

Brave

Announced by Brendan Eich, co-founder of the Mozilla Project, Brave is an open source browser that offers a respectable Chrome, Safari, and Firefox alternative.

Brave offers great speeds and advanced ad-tracking controls, ideal for the privacy-conscious who are also after a lightweight browser.

Available for Windows, Linux and OS X users, Brave includes HTTPS Everywhere integration, blocks cookie capture, features a decent ad-blocker, and has an active developer community which is always improving the browser.

Downsides? It's still a relatively new browser, so perhaps not as polished a product as it could be, and extension functionality is still lacking.

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