Top 5 Web Browsers for WordPress Website Editing

Aug 5, 2021 | Website Design, WordPress

Kevin Fouche

Top 5 Web Browsers for WordPress Website Editing

Posted by Kevin Fouche, Pixel Fish Director

Kevin handles the planning, design, launch and training of every website that Pixel Fish creates. He ensures that every website is highly engaging and aligned with our client’s goals. With over 20 years of design and web industry experience to draw upon, Kevin aims to pass on his knowledge to our clients and like-minded businesses wanting to grow their online presence.

If you’re a WordPress user, chances are that you’ve spent a fair amount of time moving from one browser to another. Far worse, you’ve probably asked for opinions from your friends, and you’ve never heard a more diverse set of answers in your life. Here are the Top 5 Web Browsers for WordPress Website Editing.

In fact, there’s that one guy who said that Internet Explorer was the best thing to happen since sliced bread (crickets). Never ask for his opinion on anything, ever.

This blog will help shine a light on Word Press editing browsers, and along the way, give you the necessary insight into picking the best one for your website.

What Is WordPress Editing

If you’re a Website owner who’s hearing about WordPress for the first time, you almost missed the party.

WordPress is a website creation and optimization tool that allows you to create websites with minimal coding experience. Oh! And it also powers 40% of the web.

Once you’ve created your dream Website, you need to change bits and pieces of it from time to time. Similarly, you have to optimize it for things like Instagram marketing, which is where the editor comes in.

An editor is an inbuilt option or plug-in (browser of your choice) that displays your website as it is and allows you to adjust its fine details.

Factors to Consider When Picking the Right WordPress Editor

Unlike choosing a tie on a Monday morning or the perfect Dominos topping for your Thursday pizza, there’s one thing that makes picking the right editor an issue. They all look the same.

However, not all browsers will stand the test of time. You’ll soon realize that some browsers are full of pop-ups selling you things you don’t need, and No! You can’t lose belly fat in 3 days.

Some are slower than the Snake Xenzia game from 2004, and others feel like moving from one ad to another.

The factors that you should check off your boxes when choosing the right editor include:

Site Security

It goes without saying that in this decade, where even governments are getting hacked, security is crucial. Privacy and security are among the first things you should consider when choosing a WordPress editor.

Some of the features that secure browsers offer include:

  • Segregating its secure websites from insecure websites
  • Notification whenever a third-party wants to access your site data
  • Regular updates to patch data issues
  • Inbuilt ad-blockers and VPN
  • Partly or fully open source

Site Speed

Like most inbound marketers, you don’t have all day. Juggling between building and optimizing websites for SEO, your personal life, and finding time for a beer with friends requires a fast and effective browser.

A browser is fast and effective if:

  • It doesn’t have a pop-up ad in between each page
  • Offers full functionality with minimum extensions
  • Frequent updates and update notifications
  • Limited collections of browsing data that reduces speed

Add-ons and Extensions

WordPress editors don’t exist in isolation. With that in mind, it will take various tools for you to edit and bring your perfect website to life. This is where add-ons and extensions come in.

Your WordPress browser should allow you to quickly add, launch and use extensions and add-ons at your discretion. A good website editor should have:

  • An easily accessible add-on option
  • An adequately-equipped extension and add-on store

Flexibility

A flexible browser makes access less of a hassle. It should easily integrate into current operating systems like Windows 10 and primary productivity tools such as Google Workspace and e-mail services.

Top 5 Web Browsers for WordPress Website Editing

1. Google Chrome

Any list about WordPress browsers loses credibility the moment it fails to mention Google Chrome. With a little bit of everything a builder/developer will ever want in a Website, Chrome has earned its spot as the most all-around browser out there.

And that 65.25% market share is not by accident. Chrome has some of the most functional set of features that have endeared it to a significant number of web developers. These features include:

Add-ons, Extensions, and Plug-ins

Chrome offers the most diverse set of WordPress add-ons in the market. And it doesn’t stop there. Chrome goes the extra mile to simplify the installation, addition, launching, and removal of these add-ons.

If you’re a Chrome user, all your add-ons will always be within reach at the top-right corner of your screen.

Password Free Logins

Next to traffic, having to enter a password each time you open a new website is one of the most gut-wrenching and annoying things known to man.

Web-developer, meet password-free logins, Chrome’s solution to this crisis. Chrome leverages its REST API expertise to ensure that you can log in without a password.

A feature that saves time while logging in to WordPress and its extensions without compromising security.

Two-factor Authentication

As you’ve seen earlier, security is key. That said, it won’t be long before you realize that the people at Chrome take their security way more seriously.

Chrome runs on two-factor authentication. This security feature means that information requires you to sign by something you know, such as a password, and something you have, such as your phone.

Chrome’s two-factor authentication comes in handy whenever your password is stolen.

Resources and Support

One of Chrome’s most significant selling points is the scope of its community. With a 60% market share, the number of resources, extensions, add-ons, and general support is incredible.

2. Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is a veteran browser that has been around since 1998 and was powering websites back in 2008 when Chrome was still in its diapers.

Nonetheless, it never gets old. Firefox’s set of features and functionality has allowed it to maintain favorability with web users and developers throughout the years.

Some of the features that make Mozilla Firefox a serious contender for your WordPress browser include:

Multi-account login

Firefox’s multi-account login feature is one of its greatest selling points. This versatile security and privacy feature allow you to separate and isolate your online identities while editing your Websites on Firefox.

It separates your cookies, bookmarks, and trackers, allowing you to have different privacy options when browsing for fun, optimizing your website, or checking your social media accounts.

Resource Optimization

All your web editing always starts with a single tab. How you end up with 20 or 30 tabs is a different story altogether.

Oblivious to many, multiple tabs are a drag on speed, and Firefox offers the perfect solution.

Mozilla’s resource optimizer manages the processor’s sharing of memory between different tabs and extensions, making your browsing time faster.

Significant Number Of Add-ons

Mozilla Firefox also offers added flexibility through its wide range of add-ons and extensions.

Whatever extension you require to edit your website better on WordPress, Mozilla Firefox offers the integration necessary to launch and run it successfully.

3. Opera

Opera is another veteran browser that has been around since the late 90s and still manages to stand the test of time.

Opera’s secret lies in its delicate balancing of emerging technologies with the legacy systems that endeared it to web browsers and builders in the first place.

Some of Opera’s most prominent features include:

Inbuilt VPN

Are you in a location without WordPress access? If so, then engineers built Opera for someone like you.

Opera’s inbuilt VPN allows you to access WordPress functionalities from different IP addresses and locations.

This genius feature exposes you to a whole new world of extensions, plug-ins, and add-ons that weren’t accessible in your location in the first place.

Turbo Mode

Amazed with Opera’s faster times and speeds? Thank its Turbo mode option. This feature is Opera’s flagship speed option that works by rerouting traffic to Opera’s servers.

Turbo mode not only increases your internet speeds but also goes a long way in helping you minimize data consumption and bypass ISP restrictions.

Plug-ins, Add-ons, and extensions

Opera also allows access to a pool of extensions and add-ons that offer increased flexibility when editing your WordPress websites.

4. UR Browser

UR Browser is yet another option that is popular with website builders and developers. Like the last three options, it is an open-source Chromium-based website with extensions and add-ons.

Some of UR Browser’s most prominent selling points include:

Free

UR browser is completely free. Above that, it doesn’t put you through millions of torturous ads and pop-ups to make up for their lack of paid revenue.

In-built VPN

UR Browser’s inbuilt browser is a Godsend for web builders and developers in restrictive or remote IP addresses.

Whenever you require a website, extension, or plug-in that’s not available in your country, UR Browser’s VPN comes in handy.

Ad-blocker

Ads are the bane of any browser’s existence. If you’re a builder, not only do ads lead to slow speeds and security issues but are also a poor attempt at separating you from your hard-earned money.

UR Browser’s ad blocker is your go-to tool for ensuring you never see another unwanted ad in your browser for the rest of your life.

5. Microsoft Edge Chromium

Launched in 2020, Microsoft Edge is the youngest browser on this list. Everybody knows that Microsoft introduced Edge as a control for the disaster that was Internet Explorer.

It’s an open-source, chromium-based browser that Microsoft hails as the “next big thing.” Going by reviews, Microsoft didn’t disappoint this time.

Some of the features that make Edge a perfect browser for a WordPress designer include:

Windows 10 Integration

Windows 10 is the most popular operating system for desktops and computers. Edge gives any WordPress developer the rare opportunity to integrate their WordPress editing with OS functionalities.

Faster Than Chrome

Unlike Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge is a faster browser than Chrome, which makes it pretty fast. With this browser, you won’t be spending hours of your day loading web pages and extensions.

Run On Metro Software

Oblivious to many, Microsoft Edge is built on metro software. This simple feature will offer unrivalled access to similar metro software, including plug-ins, extensions, and add-ons.

Choosing The Worst One Isn’t As Hard.

Remember that saying, “there’s a million ways to fail and only one to succeed.” Well, that doesn’t age well when it comes to WordPress browsers.

Here, there are a million ways to succeed and one to fail. Internet Explorer.

WordPress and Internet Explorer are one of the worst integrations one could ever have. It’s right up there with pineapple and pizza.

Using Explorer will lead you to sluggish speeds, bugs, crashes, and eventual madness. With that in mind, you should consider crossing it off your list.

What’s The Best Editing Browser For WordPress

Not wanting to be one of those long reads that end up with an anticlimactic “it depends,” Chrome is probably the best browser for your WordPress editing.

If Chrome doesn’t float your boat, Mozilla Firefox, our runner’s up, will. After exploring these two and not finding satisfaction, you can then look for other options.

Where We Come In

Perfect web designer, check. Excellent WordPress editor check. Could the ideal web design platform be the only thing standing between you and the ultimate business?

Not anymore.

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