• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    For god sakes don’t use Brave. Brave has been caught doing shady shit in the past, and the CEO is a piece of shit on top of that.

    Use Firefox with privacy addons.

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      8 months ago

      Vivaldi and Firefox are better choices.

      PS: considering reviewing Brave again. Everyone should contribute to their source code.

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        9 months ago

        Vivaldi is the best!

        Currently trying out Floorp as a Firefox fork for the possibility that Google’s disabling of adblockers in the manifest will make it impossible to use chromium browsers which is kind of good, too

        But Vivaldi rules as long as chromium is an option!

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          9 months ago

          Floorp looks nice and customizable, but in terms of updates it doesn’t seem very sustainable yet.

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            9 months ago

            I get updates every other week

            but I think it’s in a weird spot with not having regular English patchnotes - and afaik they also use an older rendering-engine

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              9 months ago

              Ahh, now that explains why I just saw a smaller number.

              Floorp is based on Firefox ESR. Floorp will be updated every 4 weeks, with security updates provided before each Firefox release.

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      9 months ago

      But in iOS , addons (ublock origin) are not available at least outside EU, so brave is the better choice as it got brave shield . everywhere else I use Firefox.

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      9 months ago

      Wasn’t the Brave CEO formerly the Mozilla CEO, back when Mozilla was doing a good job?

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            9 months ago

            Mozilla was doing poorly when he was CEO as well. Google has been doing everything they can to force Chrome.

            He was CEO for 11 days and in that time all he did was cause a bunch of websites to show a banner requesting that users install a different browser in order to not support a homophobe.

            There was also a boatload of articles about his homophobia that brought Mozilla into disrepute.

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              9 months ago

              The problem is appointing Mozilla leadership based on ideological purity rather than technical merit.

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                9 months ago

                Firstly, who says that’s happening?

                And secondly, this isn’t entirely about purity - even if you personally (and I’m not saying this is your view, btw) don’t give the slightest fuck about gay people and you’re fine with them having fewer rights/fine with others actively trying to strip their rights away - others aren’t, and it’s harmful to the business.

                Eich was CEO for 11 days and achieved nothing other than a Firefox boycott, dozens of negative Firefox headlines, and Firefox being known as the homophobic browser.

                Even from a cold-hearted “fuck human rights, I care only about market share” POV, Eich was still an awful CEO decision.

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            9 months ago

            Would you hire a bigot to run your company so long as the numbers go up? Fuck that mentality.

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      9 months ago

      There is one issues though… Firefox is extremely slow and clunky. I hate to say it, but on mobile it is hard to use all the time for me. On desktop I’m Firefox 95% of the time but some sites don’t work very well with the much slower JavaScript engine. This isn’t to defend Brave or any chromium browser but we gotta get Firefox up to speed.

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        9 months ago

        This is on iOS. There is no Firefox (geko) or Chromium, there is only skins of Safari so your point is moot. For now.

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        Firefox and chromium both outperform Safari in performance tests, or roughly the same depending on the setup.

        It’s Safari that’s the third rate browser. No one would use that shit if it hadn’t been forced on them and if the other vendors weren’t restricted by Apple.

        There’s a reason Apple stopped making Safari for other platforms. It never caught on, 'cause it sucks. Safari can’t compete without Apple kneecapping the competition. They’re like a sports team that can’t win without playing on their home turf at 10000 ft altitude where they pump in crowd noise and drug the other team’s gatorade

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          Wow safari is shit. I didn’t know it was that far behind. Damn. Well, to be fair my problem is my Pixel 6 is a slow ass buggy Google nightmare product. Firefox probably works fine on a Samsung phone but then I can’t install GrapheneOS. Yet I have never bothered so… Samsung and their locked bootloader may be preferable just so Firefox has more hardware to run on lol.

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        I feel like Firefox has made some really great strides on the performance front. Especially considering how bloated chrome has gotten as a comparison. But… Yeah that’s valid. I love Firefox like 99% of the time but sometimes I’m almost forced to swap to Chrome to get a site to work correctly or reliably.

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          9 months ago

          Site devs need to see the threat from browser engine monopolies too. Valve literally started pouring resources into Linux gaming just because Microsoft looked like they were trying to dominate game stores on Windows. Chromium actually dominates the web. I guess at least base chromium is open source. Still though, one of those markets is way bigger than the other and it definitely isn’t Linux gaming. (God I love Proton/WINE and how far we’ve come!)

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        Firefox is fine on mobile in my eyes.

        At least the Android version, even on my 5 year old Exynos phone it does what I need / want from a browser. Allows (some) extensions, lets me zoom wherever I want to on any page, has a reader mode and is snappy enough on old hardware.

        Chrome tries to be / do far too much for me, just fuck off and let me browse the web. I do like the dynamic colours that Chrome on mobile uses on different webpages, is hot.

        However Chrome gives me dirty Microsoft vibes, and it’s pretty hard to shake that stank.

        If your on iOS welcome to the walled garden. Hope you live in the EU.

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        9 months ago

        I just have a shitty phone. Lol don’t buy a Pixel 6. (Unless you pick it up really cheap for temporary use)