F me. Other comments, in particular about the dev, making me hurl.
Only used its Private mode tho. Never went into its crypto shit.
If only Firefox [LibreWolf] wasn’t so dogshit when I open multiple Youtube tabs on Private mode, then I’ll migrate my tabs there.
Edit: seems people here never tried doing that on ther LibreWolf smh. Don’t worry, I’ll change my mind when LW’s private mode don’t give me the problem anymore.
I went from Chrome to FireFox back to Chrome and now to Brave. Brave has actually made me miss Firefox a bit. I’m going to stick with Brave a bit though, I like the Tor functionality and the Wallet function feels useless. I’m not too sure how secure having a copy of your COLD Wallet is on your browser. Additionally, I’ve been looking into Nord VPN that I also completely passed over the integrated VPN functionality as well.
seem like a good place to shill my blog about switching browser and search engine. I recommend Librewolf on desktop and Mull on android tho. view this privacy comparison
finally this fucking, shady and useless brave shits out of the jar
Yea within no time Brave will become evil as hell because the CEO is a silicon valley bro. They just waiting for more people to adapt their product and services.
Brave will become evil
The were evil since they started with all the cryptobullshit.
You must be evil to enter the crytoworld
Another case of shitification lol
from my experience & tests brave is better for blocking fingerprinting without having a bunch of exensions. witch the extensions themselves would make browsers more unique and identifyable
FF add blockers kept failing me, got sick of it and switches brave a while ago, use it on my phone and tablet too. It works for me. Because Google won’t sell my data, I’m not that worried about what brave is doing.
Did nobody read the article? The author is crying that Brave implemented a summary feature so users don’t have to read through entire paragraphs to get to the actual content. Of course, he goes on and on about copyright and OpenAI, nothing really about user data.
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I heard chromium is easier to work with than gecko.
I heard the same - over a decade ago.
Not disagreeing with you, although that information might be outdated. But the fact that you don’t see, e.g. , applications that use gecko to embed web content, speaks volumes. I get the feeling that their codebase is very monolithic.
I would really like to hear from a current or former contributor though.
On the chromium side, there is the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which is used absolutely everywhere. Not sure about gecko situation though, but at least their JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, also has quite widespread use. I don’t think I’ve seen projects not related with Mozilla/Firefox that use gecko though, but perhaps it’s because I never look hard enough. It’s usually either WebKit or CEF.
It seems they cancelled support for embedding gecko.
As a previously paying, licensed Opera user I believe it was one of the reasons they went with chromium. Even Vivaldi (which is the true Opera) uses chromium. Giving up PWA support is another mistake.
I believe libxul is their approach to having gecko as a separate library for others to use.
I use and heavily recommend Waterfox. Less bullshit, more privacy.
Than librewolf? how exactly?
i use and heavily recommend Waterfox
ah, beautiful double standards.
leaves brave due to scandals/being an ad company.
moves to a browser owned by an advertising company
I actually use 5 different browsers:
- Brave for work (need Chromium/Workspace integrations)
- Mullvad for most things not work
- LibreWolf simply because Mullvad can’t be set as default
- Ferdium for convenient containers for sites I am regularly logged into
- Tor for “sensitive” browsing
Ferdium Are you saying Ferdium runs sites in isolated containers so it won’t recognize when I’m logged into another app via cookies?
It just sandboxes your various logins to prevent leaking your browsing habits.
Firefox can do this too so it should work with librewolf too, no?
It just doesn’t work the same way
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its referring to their search engine’s ai summarizer feature, i found an article when searching op’s title, quite a low effort post really since only an image was shared and no link to any article… or any description whatsoever.
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Hoping manifest v3 ends up being enough of a problem for adblockers that it pushes them to consider moving to firefox.
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If someone can explain to me why librewolf refuses to display the specialized font characters that most websites use for necessary navigation symbols, I’ll go back to using it. But all of my research suggests it was a problem only I was having, and it genuinely made some websites unusable.
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I’m geniunely asking, what are the alternatives that are fast, have builtin sync, and can block ads on android? I’ve tried firefox, and while it’s gotten better on desktop, in my experience it struggles to play youtube videos on mobile, and the ui is basically unusable on a tablet/foldable.
Enthusiasts don’t like to hear it, but Edge, which is Chromium, has a built in adblocker which can be adjusted to also block safe ads.
It has a genuinely good sync with an account that nearly everyone has. The only reason to dislike Edge post-Chromium is the company Microsoft, but it’s IMO the best Chromium browser, for both Windows/Android.
Try Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser.
Use Firefox for browsing the interwebs and something like NewPipe app for YouTube?
What issues are you having with tablet?
You could try Firefox Nightly and enable addons if they’re are any that could improve things for you.
Since the transition to GeckoView the tablet ui is just scaled up mobile ui, with no tab-bar and no desktop sites by default. For some reason mozilla has marked it as a feature request instead of a bug (which I argue it is, as it used to have those features, as do all of the competing browsers), and successfully have been ignoring for 3 years (here’s the discussion on mozilla connect, but there used to be a github issue before that).
As for youtube, I need a browser to use https://chatreplay.stream/ . For everything else of course there are NewPipe, ReVanced, and LibreTube
I will never understand why people dont just use firefox and its derrivatives…
Brave is just too shady and I hate that it’s considered a “privacy” browser by people who don’t know better.
I’ve been using Brave for over a year now and really like it. Nearly all the functionality of Chrome with none of the privacy issues.
Aw man I just started using Brave on my Android phone and really enjoy using it’s AdBlock features and forced dark mode on pages that don’t support it yet.
I tried Firefox and they didn’t have an option to force dark mode on webpages without me having to turn this in in developer mode which breaks other apps I use.
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There’s a Dark Reader extension that will do that for you, if you have fdroid I’d also recommend grabbing Fennec instead which deblobs Firefox, changes some bad defaults, and enables about:config
Or Mull over fennec…
