³ I avoid it like the plague for a few different reasons:I can agree with part 1, Brave should have used the firefox engine or
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³ 1. It's a Chromium fork, thus polluting the browser market with false choice
³ 2. It's inextricably linked to cryptocurrency (specifically BAT)
³ 3. It's run by outspoken anti-LGBTQIA+ activist Brendan Eich
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³ I currently use Floorp (a Firefox fork) with æBlock Origin.
the engine from Safari instead. Browser makers don't want to do it the hard way.
It is a bit of a matter of perspective. As far as Chromium remains open-source I don't think the monoculture aspect is too
problematic. Still, it sucks when some non-standard becomes so dominant it starts being difficult to use any alternative.
Thankfully, I think we are far from that point.
The only firefox fork I have ried s Pale Moon. It was ok, but the developpers were assholes and the whole deal was very Windows
centric. They had a very "just use Windows" vibe that got them out of many repositories.
Personally I'm more into Firefox. I don't know why, because it's just a browser, but I still prefer it to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.
Personally I'm more into Firefox. I don't know why, because it's just a browser, but I still prefer it to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.
I personally prefer Firefox because it is relatively easy to fix.
I say this because most web browsers are broken, in the sense that they leak a whole lot of information about what you do to third parties via telemetric services and the like. With Firefox you can load the arkenfox user.sj file and remove the issue in one sweep.
I personally prefer Firefox because it is relatively easy to fix.
I say this because most web browsers are broken, in the sense that they leak a whole lot of information about what you do to third parties via telemetric
services and the like. With Firefox you can load the arkenfox user.sj file and remove the issue in one sweep.
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