A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave ๐คท (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)
Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...
lol
Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?
need a Chromium browser for technical reasons
With a similar use case, after messing around with Brave, then Ungoogled Chromium for a few years, I just reinstalled Google Chrome last month. I literally only need it for making sure webdesign stuff I do works okay in Chrome, and for the extremely rare websites I come across that refuses to work in Firefox ๐คท I didn't change any settings or install even an adblocker, to make sure I'm testing as close to the "vanilla" experience as possible. I also don't log into any accounts with it, so I don't really care if Google sees what I do for that 2-3 page visits / month.
Secureblue's Trivalent browser looks promising. Currently the only way to install it outside of secureblue is COPR on Fedora, but I'm sure there will soon be packages in the AUR, Gentoo, Nix, etc.
Other good options are Cromite, Thorium and Ungoogled Chromium
Get yourself a naked chromium from their github. That's what I do. Least amount of bloat this way.
Chromium?
No-ium
Forget the Lion
Android app person here. They used that title in an A/B test to see if it would help them get more installs for when people searched "Firefox". That is why 1. They picked the words "fire" and "fox", and 2. Why you're not seeing it.
Not very professional.
It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.
Brave? You mean "browser for bigots"?
i had no idea...
Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.
Seems rather desperate ๐
I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.
Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)
Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.
Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.
Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me
