No idea why people use and recommend Brave when Firefox exists. It’s full of crypto and other unnecessary add-ons out of the box.

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Brave has marketed itself more aggressively than Firefox did.

Additionally, Firefox’ most devoted userbase can be quite bitter at times.

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A guy who was their CEO for 11 days 9 years ago?

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Oh, from your link, I thought you were referring to him being the CEO of Mozilla 9 years ago, and that was a reason why you wouldn’t use Firefox. I didn’t realize that he moved from Mozilla to start Brave Software after that.

Heh. Maybe he’s doing high-end closeting.

Says it comes with unnecessary add-ons Comes with 0 unnecessary add-ons

Bravephobes are now just making shit up Lol

Braveophobes lmao you sound like a paranoid government leader

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“Bravephobes”

Absolutely, the mere thought of a good browser makes you cry

he be sounding like a paranoid government leader fr lmao. i always love seeing brave simps seethe

  • Brave Rewards
  • Brave Talk
  • Brave Search
  • Brave News
  • Brave Wallet

Yeah, such a light and lean browser…

All of that Firefox has its equivalents as well as some of that being untrue as they’re search engines not websites etc

Brave has adware and bloat preinstalled, firefox doesn’t even have something similar to this.

Why do Bravephobes love making shit up and projecting?

Why are you gaslighting so hard. Just lookup what adware is. It has literally preinstalled crypto marketing widget that you need to disable or smth and also provide a opt-in ads for crypto solution that has opt-out “Gift the tokens to the page that has no wallet”

When one makes a claim like that when nothing indicated such things, its accepted in the community of behavioral analysis that it was a projection. Bravephobes love making shit up Lol

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BR = Ads like all browsers except off by default and it pays you

BT = Nothing, not part of the browser

BS = That’s just a fucking search engine. What browser doesn’t come with one Lol

BW = FF also has “bloat” like phishing protection except the wallet is actually useful and isn’t just a censorship tool

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Since it is based on Chromium, but promises to keep the new Google tracking out in the future and maintain compatibility with extensions, I can see why it would be recommended. But only as a backup to access a site that won’t load in Firefox.

we’re back to the days when Firefox first came out, except instead of some websites only working with IE, they’ll only work in Chrome/Edge.

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Because Firefox on IOS has no browser extensions

Edit: Why are you booing me

that is because all browsers on iOS are basically safari cuz Apple doesn’t allow fun

Orion apparently allows extensions like uBlock Origin. Not sure if anyone has put it to the test but superficially, its there. Hard to tell where Orion ends and uBlock Origin begins since it seems adept at dealing with fingerprinting and other niceties by itself

You can’t download and run code on iOS, which is pretty much the definition of an extension. You could ship some extensions “with” your browser, but at that point they’re just a feature. iOS has adblocking addons at the system level though, doesn’t it?

Ya, the extension aspects of iOS are a headache in terms of understanding everything. I look forward to liberalisation of 3rd party browsers allowed and any consequent innovation on mobile browsing.

It’s faster on older devices

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Firefox still doesn’t have vertical tabs which I’ve found really useful for my workflow right now, so I use a fork called Pulse. Don’t want to use any extensions for it when Pulse and other forks do it natively.

There’s a million add-ons that add this, isn’t there? I have one installed at home that basically makes it into what arc has

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Probably, but between the disabling of userChrome.css (even if you can enable it via about:config) and a possible conflict between other addons I use, I’m comfy with my Pulse setup.

sorry, why not tree style tabs?

you can hide the normal tab bar and only have the tree style ones on the side

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I explain it in another comment, tl;dr: have to edit userChrome.css to give it a more streamlined look (and Mozilla calls that feature “legacy” in about:config since v69 which kinda worries me about that feature’s removal) and I’m not sure if some extensions might conflict (Would it have issues with Simple Tab Groups). Pulse does it natively and really well, so I’m happy with it.

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I know it’s most likely not relevant with you anymore, since you’re using Pulse, but have you tried any of the vertical/tree tab extensions?

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I used Tree Style Tab but I didn’t like having to change the userChrome.css to make it streamlined (i.e. hiding the tab bar), while Pulse does it natively and really well. I do have an extension for tab groups that imitates Vivaldi’s tab workspaces though, not sure if those will conflict. (If you’re curious, it’s called Simple Tab Groups.)

Edit: There’s also the issue of Mozilla calling the editable userChrome.css a legacy feature, which kinda worries me about its possible removal. Pulse having vertical tabs as a native feature skips that.

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