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Post by SushiHippie »

fabrice_d wrote: post #85
SushiHippie wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why they went with patch files instead of forking chromium and rebasing the changes via git. They document how developers should "rebase" chromium: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Chromium-rebases... And it looks like way more work than doing it with git via git rebase chromium/master

If you do that kind of rebase you have to force-push to your branch, and that's not great for many reasons. The other option is to `git merge chromium/master` into your fork. This way you don't have to force-push, but the history is not that clean and bisecting can be tricky.

Ah true didn't think of that, as I've never worked on such large projects were force pushing becomes a problem.

But with manually editing .patch files you need to manually find out how to resolve the conflicts, while in a rebase git at least shows you the merge conflicts.

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Post by AzzyHN »

donkeyboy wrote: post #2

Different topic, but can someone talk about which browser they use now? I’ve used Chrome for the past N years with ublock Origin, but recently I’ve been getting some ads on Youtube. Also some websites just didn’t work in Chrome. I switched to Brave a week ago and things seem ok, but it’s a weird browser with Tor built in, and also Spotify.com always crashes with a Memory problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on brow…

Firefox + uBo. TOR browser uses Firefox as a base for a reason, and uBo works best on Firefox

Re: Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

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Post by soundnote »

donkeyboy wrote: post #2

Different topic, but can someone talk about which browser they use now? I’ve used Chrome for the past N years with ublock Origin, but recently I’ve been getting some ads on Youtube. Also some websites just didn’t work in Chrome. I switched to Brave a week ago and things seem ok, but it’s a weird browser with Tor built in, and also Spotify.com always crashes with a Memory problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on brow…

Brave. I pretty much turn most things off and use it as a more private Chrome with vertical tabs.

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Post by soundnote »

jorvi wrote: post #44
rekoil wrote: post #39

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Oh it's opt-in now? It used to be opt-out, good change.

Unless we are talking about some very very early days, it has always been opt-in. Or rather, I have been installing Brave since ~2017 and I’ve never had Brave Rewards be on by default. You’ll get notification badges on the Brave Rewards URL bar icon, but it isn’t active until you click on it and go through the BAT onboarding.

The Brave way in general seems to be "icon for function visible by default, function itself has to be turned on separately". So there's a bunch of clutter at first, but not stuff like say, Edge just turning history sync on even if you've previously turned it off.

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Post by prng2021 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

What’s wrong with AI in a browser? Each SaaS app you use in a browser has or will have AI. Is the AI built by each of those ridiculous? If not, then what is ridiculous about a browser striving to create a general AI than can apply to any site you visit within that browser?

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Post by lupusreal »

dghughes wrote: post #83
vouaobrasil wrote: post #10

In my opinion, the goal of increasing automation has gone from a useful relief of labor to an obsession that will lead nowhere. Globally, this seems to be reflected only by increasing resource use and increasing ignorance of the natural world by producing purely for the sake of making consumerism more efficient. AI assistant in a browser...it's getting ridiculous.

It truly is just a modern day Clippy.

Hardly. Clippy was hated because he interrupted you with unhelpful suggestions. I played around with the Leo thing a little bit and it never interrupts you; actually I had to dig through the UI a bit to figure out how to activate it at all.

Anyway, now that this sort of technology exists, Microsoft is missing a great opportunity to bring back clippy and cash in on some nostalgia. I miss that lil guy.

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Post by lupusreal »

rekoil wrote: post #42
malauxyeux wrote: post #21

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Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF? I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.

For me it's how user-defined search engines work. In Chromium-based browsers you can just supply a URL-template, a name, and a shorthand, and you're off to the races, it takes 10 seconds to add one. In Firefox it used to be you needed to like create your own little mini-addon or something like that, and these days they have "smart bookmarks", but it's such a weird name and doesn't really work the same. At any rate, I…

In Firefox you right click on a website's search field and select "Add keyword for this search". The you can use " whatever you're searching" in the address bar and it will take you right to the results page.

It works great but is poorly advertised and not particularly discoverable... They're stored as bookmarks so it should be possible to import them.

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Post by random_mutex »

lupusreal wrote: post #91
rekoil wrote: post #34

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I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums. It's a de-Googled Chromium fork which retains support for Manifest v2 extensions and has a bunch of neat extra features like first-party ad-blocking, an (underused and probably at this point should be considered a failed experiment) advertising network where users are paid for the ads they consume, Tor-integration, Web3 integrations. Yes, it default…

> "I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums" Eich bad

Eich = guy who created JavaScript
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