I currently use Brave and am curious about the pros and cons of both since I see many people recommend Firefox.
If you left chrome thinking brave is not google, both are from companies made for profit. Both are based on chromium. You left one ad company for another.
I’m no privacy savant, but I like Firefox better. I think it has the better “modern” interface. It is less buggy on my laptop, has better scrolling to my eye.
From a philosophical perspective I think the web should support more than one rendering engine.
I disable smooth scrolling so my eyes don’t have to follow and wait for it to be done scrolling. The scroll height is ingrained so now, on new machines, when it’s on it annoys me to no end.
I like how Firefox doesn’t shove crypto shit down my throat nor want to monitorize my web browsing experience at all.
Firefox.
Brave team has been caught doing sketchy and controversial things over time, and I personally can’t be bothered to support them.
Hardend Firefox in incognito or just Librewolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Decentraleyes add-ons along with Mullvad + NextDNS is the best combination. If you can also have pi-hole it can also do a good job at blocking trackers…NextDNS seems to do the job for me though. I use Mull browser on android.
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No, you’re not a bother at all; this is very informative! I don’t personally have the time to delve into the technicalities of why something may be outdated or maybe even redundant. I just kind of follow what has worked for me, as I want to be as anonymous as I can be while browsing the web. Furthermore, I will change Decentraleyes out for LocalCDN; I appreciate this tip.
Firefox has one of my favorite privacy extensions that creates containers to group your tabs into, and I haven’t found an equivalent for chrome based browsers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
But if you like crypto, I’d go with Brave. Firefox recently broke a bunch of browser wallet / hardware wallet integrations by ditching U2F on the latest release without giving any of the big wallet programmers a heads up.
I love how much you can pimp out Firefox with custom CSS style sheets. However, the number one reason I use it is to show the internet that not everyone wants to just surrender to Chromium (and Google). If I could donate specifically to Firefox development, I would.
I have Brave as a backup and still use it from time to time. It’s a good browser. Privacy-wise it is probably better than vanilla Firefox but inferior to Librewolf (a security-hardened Firefox fork).
Get Librewolf
Firefox is the only choice for me at this point.
I use Firefox, but only because I really don’t want to support Chromium’s monopoly. I do think that Chromium based browsers are better though.
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This is not backed up by any data, but for me the experience on Chromium based browsers always seems faster and smoother, especially on modern, JS heavy sites.
Also, I’m a sucker for feature rich applications and I really like how much stuff Vivaldi and Brave have built-in. This is extremely subjective though and I know there are many people who consider all of this a terrible bloat.
I’m trying to use Librewolf but still have Brave installed and am forced to use it frequently due to the growing list of websites that don’t work with a hardened Firefox. It sux, but while chromium variants are used by the vast majority of people, that list will keep growing
Edit: Braves defingerprinting is way better than Firefox, especially if you want to use dark mode
