Firefox had some issues like a decade ago on their old engine. In the past few years, they seriously stepped up their game.
If you’re a normal user, you probably won’t even notice the difference between Firefox and Chomium-based browsers. Sometimes I come across a weird website that doesn’t want to load properly, so I’ll open a Chrome tab for a few minutes to access it, but that’s increasingly rare.
For web development, I generally prefer Chome’s debug tools, but do all my normal browsing with Firefox.
Yeah, I am a normal user, I don’t do web development or anything like that so I’ll probably hold off on a decision until the new manifest. Thanks for your input. :)
The performance bit is a lottery. Some people won’t notice any significant difference from chrome. A few will have severe issues. For most the slowdown will be circumstantial or won’t even notice.
Sites that don’t load properly are few and far between. Mostly poor web developers who are doing something undocumented or applying outdated practices. Often is just targeting some behavior that works on Chrome but is not standard. Firing up Brave to open the odd page once in a blue moon is not too extreme to ask. Specially since it’s the result of Google’s influence on the W3C standards and forcing their way upon others.
Brave iscool and all. But everytime I open it I fear it’s going to backdoor a cryptominer into my machine. It just gives that vibe.
If you’re comfortable, maybe not. I’ve done that recently though because Brave was actually the one giving me display issues on sites I frequent. Issues that aren’t experienced on other Chromium browsers or Firefox.
I get that something like that might sway some people, and more power to you if you don’t want to in any way support people like that. But It isn’t going to affect me personally. I’m the type to separate the art from the artist, ya know? Plus there’s more people making Brave than just that one person, so like. I dunno, this doesn’t really affect my decision in the long run. I guess I’ll just wait and see when the new manifest happens, thanks for your input though!
Yes. Brave is based on Chromium, which has some limitations on things which can be filtered. If you truly care about your privacy, use Firefox, or a further-privacy focused Firefox variant such as LibreWolf. The so called performance issues of Firefox are greatly exaggerated, realistically you won’t be able to notice any difference.
Thanks for letting me know, I’ll check it out. Though, I do get kinda skeptical when companies announce that their privacy focused, there’s usually some sort of ulterior motive at work.
Brave constantly shoves crypto crap in your face and tries to monetize your web browsing experience. It’s awful.
Other than Firefox, you have Vivaldi and also other Chrome alternatives like Chromium too. Firefox preforms plenty fast so don’t let rumor or hearsay stop you from trying it either.
Vivaldi is nice. They’re a little aggressive in pushing their new features, but their hearts seem to be in the right place. It’s run by ex-Opera people, and has a similar kind of feel to how Opera used to be when it was the #3 browser. It does still use the Chromium engine though.
You’re posting on Lemmy and you joined seven days ago, so it’s a safe bet that you have some opinions about Reddit. So I’ll put it this way: if you have a problem with the way Reddit concentrates power in the hands of u/Spez and want to support alternatives because of that, then you should also have a similar problem with how Chromium-based browsers concentrate power in the hands of Google and reject Brave in favor of Firefox.
Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.
I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.
The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you’re heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it’s older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable
Sometimes, simply changing the user agent string to that of Chrome is enough to make a site work again. For example Street View lags on Firefox, except when identifying as Chrome.
I’ve been using Firefox for years now and the only issue I’ve had is that at work I can’t download particularly large files from John Deere operations centre so I use another browser just for that. Everything else, which is literally everything as far as I’m concerned, has been a better experience for me than Chrome ever was. Also Brave uses chromium which is cringe.
I’d say it’s worth the switch as if you care about privacy, Firefox just has more tools available to this end
So I’ve heard good and bad things about Firefox in this thread. The bad things being mainly the performance, and some sites just don’t load…
So my question to you is, If I’m comfortably browsing on Brave with uBlock on, is it really worth the switch right now?
Firefox had some issues like a decade ago on their old engine. In the past few years, they seriously stepped up their game.
If you’re a normal user, you probably won’t even notice the difference between Firefox and Chomium-based browsers. Sometimes I come across a weird website that doesn’t want to load properly, so I’ll open a Chrome tab for a few minutes to access it, but that’s increasingly rare.
For web development, I generally prefer Chome’s debug tools, but do all my normal browsing with Firefox.
Yeah, I am a normal user, I don’t do web development or anything like that so I’ll probably hold off on a decision until the new manifest. Thanks for your input. :)
The performance bit is a lottery. Some people won’t notice any significant difference from chrome. A few will have severe issues. For most the slowdown will be circumstantial or won’t even notice.
Sites that don’t load properly are few and far between. Mostly poor web developers who are doing something undocumented or applying outdated practices. Often is just targeting some behavior that works on Chrome but is not standard. Firing up Brave to open the odd page once in a blue moon is not too extreme to ask. Specially since it’s the result of Google’s influence on the W3C standards and forcing their way upon others.
Brave iscool and all. But everytime I open it I fear it’s going to backdoor a cryptominer into my machine. It just gives that vibe.
If you’re comfortable, maybe not. I’ve done that recently though because Brave was actually the one giving me display issues on sites I frequent. Issues that aren’t experienced on other Chromium browsers or Firefox.
The founder of Brave had previously been fired from Mozilla due to his homophobia. Firefox is the more ethical choice.
But it’s also perfectly fine for most web browsing, and is the only web browser I’ve seen with extensions like ublock available on mobile.
I get that something like that might sway some people, and more power to you if you don’t want to in any way support people like that. But It isn’t going to affect me personally. I’m the type to separate the art from the artist, ya know? Plus there’s more people making Brave than just that one person, so like. I dunno, this doesn’t really affect my decision in the long run. I guess I’ll just wait and see when the new manifest happens, thanks for your input though!
Yes. Brave is based on Chromium, which has some limitations on things which can be filtered. If you truly care about your privacy, use Firefox, or a further-privacy focused Firefox variant such as LibreWolf. The so called performance issues of Firefox are greatly exaggerated, realistically you won’t be able to notice any difference.
Thanks for letting me know, I’ll check it out. Though, I do get kinda skeptical when companies announce that their privacy focused, there’s usually some sort of ulterior motive at work.
Brave constantly shoves crypto crap in your face and tries to monetize your web browsing experience. It’s awful.
Other than Firefox, you have Vivaldi and also other Chrome alternatives like Chromium too. Firefox preforms plenty fast so don’t let rumor or hearsay stop you from trying it either.
Vivaldi is nice. They’re a little aggressive in pushing their new features, but their hearts seem to be in the right place. It’s run by ex-Opera people, and has a similar kind of feel to how Opera used to be when it was the #3 browser. It does still use the Chromium engine though.
To me, the answer will always be “containers”. Firefox containers were a game changer and I can never go back.
You’re posting on Lemmy and you joined seven days ago, so it’s a safe bet that you have some opinions about Reddit. So I’ll put it this way: if you have a problem with the way Reddit concentrates power in the hands of u/Spez and want to support alternatives because of that, then you should also have a similar problem with how Chromium-based browsers concentrate power in the hands of Google and reject Brave in favor of Firefox.
Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.
I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.
The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you’re heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it’s older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable
Sometimes, simply changing the user agent string to that of Chrome is enough to make a site work again. For example Street View lags on Firefox, except when identifying as Chrome.
I’ve been using Firefox for years now and the only issue I’ve had is that at work I can’t download particularly large files from John Deere operations centre so I use another browser just for that. Everything else, which is literally everything as far as I’m concerned, has been a better experience for me than Chrome ever was. Also Brave uses chromium which is cringe.
I’d say it’s worth the switch as if you care about privacy, Firefox just has more tools available to this end