What is the most important and most used application in the world today?

Answer: The Browser.

Respectfully, Proton has great ideas and applications, but lacks cohesion and a clear identity. And, because each Proton app has its own environment, it makes it very difficult for the average user to adopt the entire suite of apps.

Solution:

Protonmail (misnomer) might consider a simple identity, Proton+.

In this scenario, Proton+ is in essence a browser; a browser surrounded with Proton's superb security stack.

This browser comes with 5 native apps ("plugins"): VPN, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Messenger. Each of these apps can be used independently as a stand-alone app or an app tightly integrated with the other apps inside the secure envelop of Proton+.

Proton+, as described above, is a perfect, complete, and secure package for today's world; and a package that does not exist yet (to my knowledge).

Best regards,

Max

I have customers that use Citrix Secure Browser, now that could be and interesting challenge to have something with feature parity

Proton Browser > Proton VPN > Customer On-Premise

Apoyo el navegador, eso sí, no quiero que se parezca al inútil Chrome, sino más a Firefox y brave, qué tenga complementos y sea igual de versátil qué Kiwi browser!!!!

Proton's own and superb browser. Yes!
Proton Navigator? ;)
You're the best. Go for it.

I would substantially rather them rally behind Firefox.

Don't build your own browser. Negotiate a deal with Mozilla foundation (and/or the other independent browsers) for a settings option that redirects account storage, password manager, etc. to Proton. Not a plugin and not a fork, but built-in and supported at Mozilla, so security updates happen asap. For this they deserve some support, and I'll be happy to see some of my visionary dues go there.

A Proton browser that has a nice design and is easy to use, that would be very great, if you develop a browser then you really have a complete all-in-one service, thank you!

I would much rather Proton focus their resources elsewhere. There are numerous well-developed browser options for privacy (Brave, Firefox, Tor, and others). There's not really anything for Proton to add to the browser market.

Proton's location in Switzerland is a great boon for storing user data, but it's important to understand why that matters. Being in Switzerland does not automatically make a service private and secure. In the case of email, drive, calendar, and passwords, your data is being stored on Proton's servers. Swiss laws protect that data, and that's why their location is a major benefit in those cases. A browser, on the other hand, does not really need to store your data to the cloud, so there's little to no benefit of having a browser based in Switzerland. If you need to sync bookmarks, Brave handles this without storing your data on a server, and for other browsers, it is exceptionally easy to make manual backups. Since privacy focused browsers are open-source, there's no reason to inherently trust a Proton browser more than alternatives, and in fact, there would be a period of time where a new and un-tested Proton browser would pose a risk for users, and would likely lack many of the privacy-protecting features present in mature browsers.

If Proton got into the browser game, it would draw resources away from their other services, many of which are still grossly behind the competition in terms of features, and it would be a long time before the Proton browser would be really worth using. On top of that, they would be competing in a space where the alternatives are well established and free to use. Creating a browser would be an absolutely terrible business decision.

I think it's great that Proton is expanding into so many different areas to offer a robust suite to protect all of their users' data, but the goal should not be expansion for expansion's sake. Adding new products before perfecting what they already have would significantly devalue the Proton suite. Quality beats quantity.

Use Brave. I'd rather proton use development resources elsewhere.

Brave is an amazing browser produced by a team much like Proton's and with the same focus on privacy. I don't want Proton to burn resources reinventing something great.

¡Esto es absolutamente necesario! 💜

To complete our security arsenal and be happy in our digital life. Only Proton can provide that.

Would love to see a Proton Browser that is built independent of chrome or firefox software... fully independent, with all of Proton's outstanding security and privacy features, plus a button, similar to Brave, that allows a user to view pages with TOR.

Additionally, would really appreciate an independent Proton SEARCH to compete with google, bing, etc. All of the standard search engines are horribly biased and it's almost impossible to find useful information if it conflicts with the globalist narrative.

It would be absolutely wonderful if it was like "arc" browser, I just started using it and oh my, I combined it with your proton pass, since I can't trust anyone else. Definitely has to be just like arc they are the only ones in the field that look good, they need better competition and more secure

I agree with Eriko

I understand the wish from a user standpoint, but not from a tech perspective. Browser development is perhaps one of the hardest task a large (!) software dev team can endure.

I'd use a Proton Browser but I clearly don't need one

Was about to create the same idea myself, but saw it was already tehre with tons of support! However, it does not seem to get love from Proton though, since the idea was shared 2017 (5 years ago) with this many upvotes and is not even planned. Too bad :(

Would love to have a browser that has also capabilities built-in to switch to Tor network and browser Deep Web as privately as possible. Perhaps combining strenghts with Proton VPN etc.

Brave browser/Brave search is good enough for now

Use Firefox with Setting