Brave is basically all of the above. I genuinely don’t get how anyone is braindead enough to fall for their “privacy” advertising.
Could you fill me in as to why Brave is only advertiaed as secure? I understand the ads/crypto thing, but if you arent opted into that and just block the ads, is there anythimg else? I also understand its a Chromium browser, but that doesnt mean google has their hooks in it (necessarily).
IDK, their ad blocker seems to work, so that puts it away ahead of the rest of the Chromium browsers.
But uBlock Origin on Firefox is even better, so I only use Brave to test apps in Chromium.
The intro-to-programming instructor at the school I work at loves it. But he also has a GME To The Moon sticker on his PC. Seems to be a beloved instructor
Why am I not surprised they’re a Brave fan.
Brave, for crypto enthusiasts who like to talk about privacy and security but don’t actually have those things or know what they are.
Does it still have advertisements?
Only time I’ve had an issue with Firefox requiring >5 minutes of diagnosis was when a shared library was deleted during a freeware uninstall. What an odd piece of criticism.
Also, brave’s president is right wing, and I dislike that. Like “pls no step on snek” right wing.
Since when is WebKit exclusive to MacOS?
It’s probably when Chrome abandoned WebKit.
I believe there was a version of Safari on Windows but that stopped existing too.
I think some people still use Konqueror.
I love that I can basically test for Safari on Linux using GNOME Web.
Angry Konqueror noises
FireFox and all of the forks breaks within 2 months
Sounds like a skill issue to me, guy
Yeah, Firefox works fine for me, problem is a good number of websites on the modern web just actually do not work correctly on Firefox because theyre designed by lazy morons.
Sometimes this can be fixed by just spoofing it and presenting as chrome, other times not.
In Opera’s defense, I have considered installing it for its game recommendation thingy alone and not actually using it as a browser, simply because modern online game stores basically recommend either massively marketed stuff or seemingly completely random 5 dollar trash, or stupid meme game that is extremely popular right now that is basically also trash and is forgotten about when Twitch moves on to the next thing.
In the past I remember Opera’s game thingy actually being decent. Any current users that can attest to this?
I have been using firefox for close to ten years and somehow I never encountered a website that didn’t work at all.
Apple Business Manager and JAMF both will refuse to work in Firefox for me. GoDaddy frequently complains too.
It depends on what websites you frequent. The vast majority work fine (though they are still heavily optimized for Chrome and not much else), but there are some exceptions like publishers of educational material or other websites with overzealous ideas of web based DRM. I’ve seen some banners that straight up tell you “You need to upgrade to a proper browser” and then link to the Chrome installer…
Government websites also seem to like locking into either Chrome or Edge
Yeah, its not that the entire website won’t work, it’ll be some vital part of it.
Various Federal and State and Local government websites will have a captcha that just doesn’t load, or have a search map or filter system that bugs out and doesn’t work.
Happens with a good number of slapdash apartment websites too, and some smaller businesses.
Theres a few things I have to regularly use that just do not actually work on Firefox so I have to keep Chrome around… =(
Again though, sometimes you can get them to work by just using a browser spoofing addon to tell the website that you are actually Chrome. Which is insane because… basically that means theyre just intentionally making Firefox not work even though it does.
Only crappy websites cause problems, and unless it’s something you really need, why bother?
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I had to do anything to “fix” Firefox.
I was running into a blue screen ONLY when using Firefox.
A month later, I decided to make sure one of my memory sticks was fully seated. Issue resolved.
My only issue with Firefox is some extensions get a little fussy in-between updates, but it seems to be a Linux issue more than a Firefox one.
And my problem is most definitely a skill issue.
It’s also objectively less secure than Chromium, which is hard to admit.
On what objective measures?
The big one is task (thread) isolation. Let me dig up some sources and get back to you,
Legends say you are still out for milk.
I forgor. This is the post I was referring to. It’s well-researched and quite fascinating, actually.
Dude is smoking crack. I’ve been using firefox for, shit, I don’t even know how long, but it’s gotta be creeping on at least fifteen years. Feels like forever any way.
Never had any kind of problem like he’s yakking about. Not once.
I’ve been using Firefox since it was Mozilla Navigator and I can’t say I’ve ever had “Piece of shit always broken” with it unless you count websites these days building with Chrome in mind, in which case I don’t blame Mozilla.
That’s my experience as well. Maybe it has more trouble on Windows though. I haven’t had much experience with it there.
I’ve been using it regularly since (I think) one of the 0.9 Betas that came on the CD bundled with a magazine I got from my local library.
Literally never had to deal with issues OP is dealing with
should’ve tried palemoon
I love Firefox, but it’s a bit if an iron skillet, and I really wish they’d drop GTK like the hot pile of shit it is.
Can you enlighten me on the problems with GTK, I don’t really know much about it?
I have no issue with Firefox.
To be fair, back in the day Firefox was literally not as good as Chrome. Then enshittification and Google deciding being “evil” was fine…
ungoogled chromium. Takes a bit of setup to get it secure, updating and work with the chrome web store. I write my own extensions apart from the ad blocker.
it’s a browser, with no extra crap apart from the option to extend it
B-but I like my Chinese botnet! It’s the smoothest browser around with tons of nifty features for browsing built-in and was the first to introduce tabs back then.
The world’s most advanced GAMING BROWSER!!
I still don’t know what that’s about. I guess it’s for the ADHD crowd who need to browse while gaming or something?
Also used to be a big opera fan back in the day. But it just isn’t what it used to be…
Used to hype up Whatsapp long long ago, now it’s shit. Used to hype up Opera long long ago, now it’s shit.
I’m gonna do everyone a favor and never be excited about anything ever again. I will single-handedly manifest the end of enshittification.
I followed the devs to Vivaldi and I’ve been very happy.
Which is also just reskinned chromium like almost any other browser. Which is why I use Safari on Apple devices and Firefox anywhere else.
Same… it was once neat, no longer.
And everything is already in the Chinese cache, it’s so efficient!
I wish. Anything across the Great Firewall is a goddamn chore to get.
Anon has left their chambers.
arc windows might not have all the features arc mac os has but it’s still a solid browser. love the split view and how i can hid the tabs on side.
Yeah they’re also aware that it’s not good right now and actively improve it.
if bug fixes are what you mean yeah, not the feature parity.
I’ve been using Firefox for like 15-17 years now, I honestly can’t even remember when I started, but its never let me down.
I’m no power user with it or anything, but its always done exactly what I needed it to.
Yup, and aside from Firefox for Android, I don’t remember the last time I needed to “refresh” Firefox, and even on Android, I only need to do it like once/year.
It’s really a non-issue.
Yeah I don’t get what they mean by needing a refresher every few days or whatever. I’ve used it all my life and only crappy websites had me needing to switch to another browser.
I completely forgot about having to use a different browser for bad websites. It’s been a few years now, but I think something to do with the SHiFT code rewards between Borderlands 2 & 3 was the last time I had to use a different browser.
