Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

Post by worble » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

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I disagree. OS certificate stores often come with the political baggage of the OS manufacturer. When a Chinese Gov't CA was found to have engaged in fraudulent behavior [0] Google and Firefox were quick to revoke/remove the CA cert from their products. Apple and Microsoft did not do the same, likely because they do not want to upset the Chinese Gov't. (IIRC Iphone users cannot even manually revoke CA's on their own p…

Then FireFox has made the deliberate choice of excluding millions of users. There are millions of users who use identity management solutions where user-certs and priv-keys are put into the OS store of their devices. Using the OS secure-store should be a preference option. The folks who don't want to use the "political baggage" of the OS manufacturer - as you put it - can continue to use their pristine gardens.

Post by dzhiurgis » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 9:27 AM UTC

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People need to stop with this argument. Chromium might be open source, but it's still Google who decides what get merged. And yes, people can fork, do their own patches, fixes, but if it deviates too much from Google, you'll end up with a new browser to maintain on your end without a team the size of Google. If all theses teams choose to not implement their own browser, it's for a reason: a web browser is a complex p…

I think Edge is good for Chromium. That puts Microsoft as a stakeholder there too, which takes power away from Google. If Apple were to move to a chromium-backed Safari, that would mean that three major players would be stakeholders in Chromium having a sane future. This means that if you send a meaningful patch, Google doesn't like it, but Microsoft and Apple do, it might get merged.

Post by rocqua » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 9:34 AM UTC

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It feels to me like this could be legislated based on profiting on others' copyright. The issue here is one party making money, without consent of any form, based on another party's published materials.

> The issue here is one party making money, without consent of any form, based on another party's published materials. So, google’s search engine business?

Post by agumonkey » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 9:52 AM UTC

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I can almost put my finger on firefox problems. The html/js engine is great. It's the GUI that severly lags. Tabs, menus, url. On the same machine Chromes never stutter, firefox nightly does way too much. Mozilla did a lot for so long, let's hope they can circle the issues and find resources to fix them.

How old is your PC? Mine is ~5 years old and Chromium has worse performance for me.

Post by vimslayer » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

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I'm currently using Firefox on all devices as my primary browser, but there is a single feature that I've gotten used to in Chrom* browsers on mobile - 'pull down to refresh' - that looks indispensable to me, and I'm planning to move to Brave on mobile just because of that (already replaced Chrome with Brave on Desktop as my secondary browser). Yes, there are add-ons to do that on mobile too, but they are all inconsi…

That's because bad developers focused on WebKit-only experience, forgetting about other browsers. The same happens when some sites require Chrome to work, blocking all the rest. In 2019 it's unacceptable