My Firefox is set up to more aggressively block sites from doing stuff and clear my cookies. I use Brave for when something breaks or if I want the site to track my preferences, like for YouTube.
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I've always preferred to choose from the options offered by my Distro's repository. I might not install that -exact- version (prefer to install where I can easily back things up).
I can't speak to Brave, but a lot of us have been burned by Firefox before.
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For me, it’s because I’m a web developer and most people use chrome. I have to run my code on a browser that is close to what people will really use. I have noticed a blind spot recently where I assumed another project I’m working on is similar, but that one I think has more Firefox users. Likely I’ll have to change my preference by project.
Also, hot take, Chromium is actually a very good browser aside from all google’s nonsense. I’ve had to turn to list virtualization to handle large lists of elements, but I noticed Chromium was much more forgiving of these lists compared to safari. Admittedly I need to do more Firefox testing.
I think people get too caught up on which browser is the best. Probably a good thing we have both brave and Firefox as options. I know brave has done its own share of nonsense, but it’s still miles better than chrome.
Don't you normally test in Firefox as well?
So why not use chromium then? Or Cromite. Both are more bare bones than brave and would give you a better view of what your audience will see.
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Firefox still doesn't have tab groups on mobile
- Brave is more secure than Firefox, in terms of sandboxing capabilities that it inherits from chromium.
- Brave includes a default adblocker and use their own search engine, compared to Firefox which does not have a default adblocker and uses Google as the default search engine.
- Brave is more efficent in terms of CPU and GPU usage, while Firefox is more efficient in terms of Ram usage.
- Brave is relatively stable(Not a lot of surprising changes) compared to Firefox.
- Brave is better looking out of the box(Wallpapers, New Tab Page (NTP) Customization and built-in Themes).