Brave Instead of Firefox?

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I'm curious about everyone's experience with Brave instead of Firefox. For all the various reasons [0] I don't use chrome any more.I just downloaded Brave for my main web-development browser (...via finding the latest release on their GitHub page, since they insist on doing an admin-only install on the mac, grr...) in hopes that it's actually faster than Firefox, and uses less memory (so they claim).After startup, Firefox (that I'd been doing a day's dev on, so this is totally unfair, but I'll keep an eye on Brave) was using ~450M, and Brave ~140M.Has the chrome-style dev tools, so that's nice. Don't care about the "rewards" thing, since it won't be my main browser.Do you use it? What do you think?I'm not affiliated with the Brave folks in any way, just curious.Thanks![0]: https://chromeisbad.com

Bakary · Accepted Answer

I use both. In fact I've distributed my various projects over multiple browsers. The languages I'm learning are distributed across two Edge profiles because its inbuilt TTS software is amazing. Job seeking and other projects involving frequent video calls are done on separate Brave profiles. Personal browsing is done on Firefox.
It sounds burdensome but it's been the opposite for me actually. Each project has its own bookmarks and mindset, and just having the precise settings, add-ons and information you need avoids confusion and distractions. Obviously, this will not work for different personality types.
To give a small but significant example, there are some Firefox settings I block because of a VPN vulnerability that I leave on on Brave since they are necessary for video calls.

yen223 · Answer

The fact that Brave the browser shows me ads for cryptocurrency exchanges when I open a new tab makes it really hard for me to trust it.

speedgoose · Answer

I have no trust in a company pushing weird crypto currency features. I prefer to use Vivaldi or Edge.

grae_euler · Answer

This guy seems to like it[0]. I think having the option to get paid for ignoring ads is pretty neat, but that's just me. I still like firefox because I'm used to it and I already have a cool CSS file ([1] if you don't know).
[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/n7lYxXrzbjk
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

stakkur · Answer

I've tried both; I find Firefox dev tools to be much better (I like them better than Chrome, too). And in a venn diagram of privacy features, I think Firefox and Brave mostly overlap.

verdverm · Answer

fwiw, it's based on Chromium like Chrome and Edge

dshep · Answer

I replaced Chrome with Brave more than a year ago and I recommend it as basically a better version of Chrome. The script blocking feature is especially useful for nytimes, and other paywall sites. The one problem I have had was my computer crashed at one point and Brave completely lost my session (4 windows, probably ~100 tabs in total). So now using Firefox mostly, even though I like it less, with Brave as a 2nd browser.