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Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by tlavoie »

celsoazevedo wrote: post #80
tlavoie wrote: post #79

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How would you compare Brave to Vivaldi, which also uses Chromium under the hood? That's my default not-Chrome, haven't used Brave.

Vivaldi is an interesting browser... it's developed by some of the people that used to work on the original Opera browser. Opera was sold and now also uses Chromium, but it's closer to Chromium (and Brave) in terms of UI and features, than to Vivaldi and the old Opera. I've tried it, but it tries to do a lot (email client, notes, very customisable, etc) and sometimes I would get overwhelmed with all the options. It a…

Great, thanks for the note. I'm using Firefox as my primary, so really, Vivaldi tends to be my alternate for sites that don't like Firefox (or at least the configuration I use.)

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by me_me_me »

celsoazevedo wrote: post #68
pixelgeek wrote: post #55

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It might not be a popular opinion but I just assume that anything having to do with crypto is a scam. Browsers included

You had a bad experience or have a negative view of X, therefore everything associated with X is automatically bad? Brave is a browser. You can use it as a Chrome replacement without Google stuff. Optionally, you can also enable the crypto stuff if you want to see ads and be paid a few bucks for that. Brave Rewards for sites/creators... you don't have to claim the money (I do, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

> You had a bad experience or have a negative view of X, therefore everything associated with X is automatically bad?

That is literally how human brains are wired by default. You touched fire and burnt you hand - fire bad. Big person hit you and took your food - big person bad.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by me_me_me »

chuckdotis wrote: post #65

Both Firefox and Brave are pretty terrible out of the box. Firefox with it's Pocket integration and promoted stories on a new tab by default has always urked me. Brave has always rubbed me the wrong way with it's BAT crypto. However, despite these issues, I use Firefox as my daily browser for personal stuff and Brave for work (I need a Chromium-based browser).

I never quite got this line of thinking.

"This product doesn't come the way I want it, so its bad"

Then change it once and thats it. I have my firefox like I want it, saved profile and now even on new machine i can have my firefox experience.

Why dont people complain that their IDE doesnt come with the font and colour scheme that they like?

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by intelMgmntEnema »

timbit42 wrote: post #72
intelMgmntEnema wrote: post #48

Assuming Android is the most common usage platform for FF, one can't even use their choice of DNS. The DoH feature uses cloudflare and overrides system configs and without about:config, there's no way to change it. This isn't good compared to anything. It just sucks. FF's concept of user benefit is restriction. How many users are now enjoying a better world because they can no longer save a webpage to PDF? Fellow fro…

According to Mozilla, they have 200 million monthly active users. According to Google Play Store, there are 100 million installs. How many Android installs are used? Half? I'd suggest there are 2 or 3 times more desktop users of Firefox than Android.

Correction accepted. Throwing 1/3 of the population to the gutter seems in alignment with the American way. Assuming once again, you appear to disagree not with my principles, but with a numerical error. I guess it's standard collateral damage in the quest for easy money. I sometimes forget that this is praiseworthy to many here.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by mavhc »

Majestic121 wrote: post #66
mavhc wrote: post #42

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Ideals are just long term benefits

If you sacrifice yourself to have an orphan out of an Ideal of selflessness or protection of the weak, the idea of benefits doesn't make sense since you'll never reap those benefits, being dead and all. If you look at the individual level, with a purely rational 'Homo economicus' rational actor, ideals don't make a lot of sense.

People are genetically programmed to look after children for the long term benefit of the species.

It's so programmed in we think baby lions are cute.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by pharmakom »

revax wrote: post #26
pharmakom wrote: post #24

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True but will your choice change the course of society? Probably not.

My vote won't change the result of an election but I still vote.

We don’t vote because it’s rational, it’s part of a shared ritual.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by rubik11 »

throwaway78981 wrote: post #27
scaglio wrote: post #5

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Any suggestions/extension for better bookmarks management?

Pinboard is a good one. You can even upload PDFs etc and search the text within the PDF. Paid though. It's cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) Desktop site: https://pinboard.in/ Mobile site: https://m.pinboard.in/ iOS/iPadOS/macOS app: https://get-pins.app/

Hey I just started using Pinboard last week. Are the Earlier/Later buttons working for you? Clicking on Earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks(of Earlier or Later) return that same page of bookmarks. Tried on Safari and Chrome. Thanks

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Post by lostmsu »

approxim8ion wrote: post #30

This seems to be aimed at a very general audience. Otherwise it would have mentioned actually great features like Containers.

I actually ended up using profiles (the way Chromium-based browsers do isolation) over containers. For my purposes it is nicer to have separate windows. For many sites I create a profile, then open that site in it, and "install as app" for even more convenience.

The only thing I used containers for was mixing personal and work stuff in one window.

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