Firefox beats Chrome and Tor in our trustworthy browser poll
Shamal Abeyrathne
Chief Channel & Marketing Officer (CCMO) | Driving Strategic Growth & Innovation | Expert in Building High-Performing Teams & Expanding Global Market Presence
For the third year running Mozilla's 'browser wars' veteran, Firefox, has burned the world's favourite browser, Google Chrome, in our trustworthy browser poll.
Surprisingly, it also soundly beat the newest entrant to appear in our poll - the post-Snowden privacy poster boy, the Tor browser.
The Tor browser, which uses Firefox as its base, is designed to be the last word in privacy and security but it seems the message isn't out there yet; it scored so few votes (6%) that it ended up making up the numbers in our 'other' category.
We've run our trustworthy browser poll at about the same time of the year, three years in a row now. Each time we've asked, "Which browser do you trust?" and each time the majority of you have answered emphatically: Firefox.
Of course this isn't a scientific study, it's a collection of web polls, and the result doesn't mean that Firefox is more trustworthy than Chrome or Tor (or Opera, or anything else for that matter), only that the people who filled in our poll think it is.
And that's important.
Browsers are our gateway to the web and a critically important part of the way we ensure our privacy and security online.
Most of us aren't going to consult Bugtraq or pore over independent speed tests when we choose our browser though. Some, perhaps many, will follow the recommendation of a person we trust on IT matters or pick one based on our perception of the browser and the company that makes it.
If you want to get online then you need to choose a browser you trust or live with one that you don't.
It seems like many of you do exactly that.