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Best Google Chrome alternative browsers for Android with card-based tabs
By Sean Riley published 6 August 21
Hate Chrome's grid tab layout? Here are the best alternatives
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Earlier this year, Chrome for Android was updated with a new grid tab layout in place of the familiar stack or card-based tab management system that it has used for years. The change wasn't popular with everyone and until recently, we had a solution for how to turn off the new grid tab layout. But the Chrome 91 update permanently broke that fix.
Google Chrome is still one of the best mobile web browsers available and most users will adjust to the grid tab layout. But if you can't live with it, here are the best alternative browsers for Android that feature stack or card-based tab management.
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You might be familiar with Brave as one of the earliest mobile browsers to integrate ad blocking. Brave continues to have a strong privacy focus, which is an issue that continues to drive increasing interest. But most importantly, for the purposes of this article, Brave uses a stack tab management that is identical to the system formerly used by Chrome.
All of the extras in Brave might seem a little overwhelming at first, but you can easily ignore most of them and the basic functionality is excellent. The aforementioned ad blocker is on by default and Brave does something interesting there with its Basic Attention Token (BAT) system. This is a currency of sorts that users earn and can give to their favorite creators either automatically based on the sites they visit or you can dole it out manually. While adoption isn't massively widespread, it is nice to give something to the sites and creators that depend on ad revenue.
Other useful extras include the ability to select distinct search engines for standard and private ("incognito") tabs. The advanced controls within the ad blocker will allow you to get granular with blocking specifically blocking cross-site trackers, always upgrade to HTTPS, blocking scripts, blocking cookies and blocking fingerprinting (used to recognize your device across sites).
Samsung Internet Browser
While I have reviewed a considerable number of Samsung phones over the years, I haven't spent a lot of time using the Samsung Internet Browser due to my loyalty and familiarity with Chrome. Whether you have a Samsung phone or not, you can download the browser from Google Play. And when it comes to our crucial concern of tab management, it spoils you with three options: stack/card-based, list or grid.
I have to give Samsung credit for the overall look of the browser as well, the animations are fluid and give it a polished feel that is lacking in a lot of the barebones web browser options. You get extensive customization options too with a variety of features that can be added to the bottom toolbar, a high contrast theme and a collection of add-on ad blockers available.
It isn't as fully featured as some alternatives, but it covers everything that most users care about and offers fast performance wrapped in one of the best-looking mobile browsers that I've ever used.
Opera is the only browser on this list that predates Chrome. Founded in 1995, it was around before Google itself existed. I'm bending the rules a bit with this one as the tab management in Opera isn't stacking in the same way as Chrome did it. However, it does use a card-based system like the Android app switcher that was introduced in Pie.
Beyond that qualification, Opera is a deep rabbit hole of a browser to dive into with considerable options available. The basics are of course all there and the browser offers quick performance and an easy-to-access reader view to strip extraneous content out of articles you are reading, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Opera has ad blocking, a crypto wallet, a built-in VPN, theming options, password management, a data saving move and much more. Flow is one of the more unique options. It's essentially AirDrop for non-Apple users allowing you to instantly share content between your mobile device and a computer with Opera installed over an encrypted private connection. If any of those extras sound compelling then definitely give Opera a chance.
While Puffin is hardly unique in saying that it looks to deliver speed and security, the method that it goes about achieving that is fairly unique as Puffin relies on delivering pages by sending encrypted data through its data centers in the U.S. Naturally, it also gives you stacked tab management, although I like Puffin's implementation the least of any of these apps as it looks a bit dated with a squared-off design and the stacks are too tight together.
However, if you don't mind that, Puffin's unusual feature set is certainly compelling to some users. The browser features a built-in VPN, offers data saving on most content, faster load times on larger pages and Flash support. Most of this is attributable to the aforementioned routing through Puffin's servers. The data is encrypted and anonymized, but it's worth noting that if you aren't in the U.S. you will show up as being in the U.S. due to this process which has its plusses and minuses.
Some of the downsides that I have run into with Puffin are that you will sometimes lose the connection with its servers which puts a temporary halt to your browsing. It never lasts long, but it can be frustrating regardless. The biggest downside with Puffin is that the free version limits your usage per day, unlimited usage requires a $9.99 a year or $0.99 per month subscription. I haven't run into the limit, so it isn't too restrictive, but it's worth considering if you are thinking of picking Puffin.
Last up is the Ecosia browser. It not only gives you back your stack tab management, but the company donates up to 80% of its profits to plant trees so you get to feel like you are doing the environment a solid in the process.
Ecosia is Chromium-based and looks very much like a slightly stripped-down version of Chrome, so you should feel right at home switching from Chrome. While it doesn't have a lot of the more advanced features found in Chrome, for general browsing it is fast and supports all of the basics that you would expect to find in a modern browser.
My one concern with Ecosia is that since it is Chromium-based and hews so closely to Chrome, it could be on borrowed time with its stack/card-based management leaving you right back where you started.
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Sean Riley has been covering tech professionally for over a decade now. Most of that time was as a freelancer covering varied topics including phones, wearables, tablets, smart home devices, laptops, AR, VR, mobile payments, fintech, and more. Sean is the resident mobile expert at Laptop Mag, specializing in phones and wearables, you'll find plenty of news, reviews, how-to, and opinion pieces on these subjects from him here. But Laptop Mag has also proven a perfect fit for that broad range of interests with reviews and news on the latest laptops, VR games, and computer accessories along with coverage on everything from NFTs to cybersecurity and more.
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Immigration And Births To Non-British Mothers Pushes British Population To Record High
THISISLONDON.co.uk
Last updated at 09:09am on 22.08.08
The soaring birth rate among immigrant mothers will soon become the main driver of Britain's rapid population growth, Government experts have predicted.
Immigration has been the biggest factor in increasing the population in recent years, and with millions of new arrivals starting families the birth rate is soaring.
The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that it could be the main source of overall population growth as early as next year, overtaking immigration itself.
Almost a quarter of all babies in Britain are now born to immigrant mothers. In London the figure is 54 per cent, rising to 75 per cent in some boroughs.
Foreign-born mothers have an average of 2.54 children, compared with 1.79 for women born in the UK.
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In most cases a baby born in the UK acquires automatic citizenship if one parent holds a UK passport, although rules are complex.
If parents have settled in Britain legally, children can secure British citizenship within a few years.
A record number of immigrants settled in the UK in the year to June 2007, topping 600,000 for the first time and helping push Britain's population to a new high of 60,975,000, a rise of almost two million in six years.
The immigration rate of 605,000 – double the figure when Labour came to power – means that on average 1,650 newcomers are settling here every day.
There are currently 6.3million people in the UK who were born abroad – well over 10 per cent of the population, and 1.1million more than in 2004. Polish workers account for almost a third of that increase.
Just over 400,000 UK residents left to live abroad last year, which still left a net inward migration of some 200,000 people.
ONS experts admitted they were 'surprised' by the continued growth after several years of sustained high immigration, when they had anticipated a tailing off two to three years after the EU's expansion began a huge influx from eastern Europe.
Announcing the figures today, Government statisticians singled out the number of babies born to immigrants as a significant trend.
It threatens to put even more pressure on public services, with schools and hospitals already struggling to cope.
A report published earlier this month revealed that one in eight pupils speaks English as a second language. MPs and unions have called for urgent action to prevent schools being overwhelmed by the pressure.
They warned that teachers are being forced to juggle resources as migrant children take longer to understand lessons and divert the teacher's energies from other pupils.
Maternity wards have been forced to turn away expectant mothers because they cannot cope with soaring demand from immigrants.
One hospital had to shut its maternity ward for two months because staff were needed elsewhere to deliver babies from foreign-born mothers.
An investigation by the BBC found the cost of providing maternity services for immigrants has more than doubled in only a decade to £350million a year.
Guy Goodwin of the ONS said: 'It is clear that yesterday's migrants as well as today's migrants are now contributing to the net population growth we are seeing.'
High immigration has increased the number of women of childbearing age in the UK, with those aged 15 to 44 up two per cent since 2001.
The number of babies born to UK-born mothers has risen by six per cent in six years, to reach 529,700.
By contrast the figure for immigrant mothers leapt by 64 per cent from 97,900 to 160,300 over the same period – accounting for two thirds of the overall increase in the nation's birth rate.
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said: 'With births to foreign mothers becoming such a large driver of population growth, it is vital that immigration levels are set taking into account the ability of our schools, hospitals and other local services to cope.'
A Home Office spokesman said: 'Migrants contribute to the economy, putting more in than they take out.
'It is vital we take the social impact of migration into account when we make migration decisions.
"That's why we set up the Migration Impact Forum to provide independent advice to the Government.
'We will also ask migrants to pay a little extra towards a fund of tens of millions of pounds to help services to deal with the short-term pressures of migration.'
She said a new points-based system to select immigrant workers was part of 'the biggest shake-up to the immigration system for a generation'.
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