TLDR: You can instantly access a disposable browser at browserling.com/browse. We stream secure, isolated web browsing sessions to you as a video and they are hosted remotely on our servers. Once the session ends, the browser is disposed of, including history, cookies, and downloads.

Disposable Browser – What Is It?

A disposable browser is a transient, isolated web browser, designed for secure, one-time tasks. It mitigates cybersecurity risks by operating in a sandboxed environment (such as a virtual machine or a Docker container), preventing malware and tracking, and is often used for running JavaScript code snippets across various browser engines. The temporary and isolated setup of a disposable browser ensures a clean state for each session, enhancing privacy and security for sensitive online activities. Additionally, disposable browsers are ideal for developers and testers as they provide a consistent and controlled environment for debugging and testing web applications, free from side effects of existing browser extensions, cookies, or cached data.

Disposable Browser – How Does It Work?

A disposable browser operates on remote servers within virtual machines or Docker containers, which are booted from a clean pre-configured image for each session. Upon session termination, the image is disposed of, ensuring that no data – such as browsing history, cookies, or cached file – is preserved. This process guarantees a fresh, uncontaminated state for every new browsing activity, maximizing security and privacy. Furthermore, the disposable browser's interface is streamed to the user's device as a video feed, ensuring that all activities occur exclusively within the remote environment, or as we like to say "everything that happens in the virtual machine, stays in the virtual machine".

What's the Difference Between a Regular Browser and a Disposable Browser?

A regular browser stores data locally, such as browsing history, cookies, cache, and downloads, maintaining a persistent state across sessions and posing potential security and privacy risks. In contrast, a disposable browser operates in a remote, isolated environment, typically a virtual machine or Docker container, ensuring no data persistence post-session. This key distinction provides enhanced security and privacy, as each disposable browser session starts from a clean, unmodified state and leaves no residual data.

What Are Disposable Browser Use Cases?

Quick Access to Untrusted Links

For accessing links from unknown or untrusted sources, disposable browsers offer a safe environment, preventing potential malware infections to the primary system. Users can explore web content that might otherwise pose a risk to their main operating system.

Privacy-Conscious Social Media Browsing

Users concerned about privacy can access social media platforms via disposable browsers, preventing tracking and maintaining a separation between their online activities and personal data. This is especially important for those who want to avoid the extensive data collection practices of social media companies.

Private Online Shopping

Disposable browsers offer enhanced privacy for online shopping, allowing users to make purchases without leaving a trace of personal or payment information on their primary devices. This approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the user's shopping habits, but also ensures that no residual data, such as cookies or browsing history, is left behind, thereby preventing targeted advertising and data profiling.

Cybersecurity Training

Disposable browsers are excellent for cybersecurity training, allowing trainees to safely experiment with potentially harmful software or websites without risking the host system and network. Trainees can engage with real-world threats in a controlled environment, enhancing their practical cybersecurity skills.

Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing

Disposable browsers provide a clean environment for developers to test web applications across different browser engines, ensuring compatibility and uniform user experience. This is very important in the web ecosystem where users access content through a multitude of browsers and OS versions.

What Is Browserling?

Browserling is a cloud-based platform that provides disposable browsers for secure, short-lived web sessions. It allows users to test web applications across different browsers and versions, ensuring cross-browser compatibility, and is also useful for private online browsing, ensuring no residual data is left on the user's device. This service operates entirely on remote servers, offering a streamlined, isolated browsing experience, prioritizing privacy and security.

Who Uses Browserling?

Browserling has now become the disposable browser platform of choice for cybersecurity experts and IT professionals, and it's used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world every month. Browserling's customers include governments, states, cities, banks, stock exchanges, universities, newspapers, Fortune 100, Fortune 500 companies, and private multi-billion dollar companies.

Happy browsing!