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    From halian@VERT/ABINARY to Matthew Munson on Sunday, September 29, 2024 05:15:00
    ³ I avoid it like the plague for a few different reasons:
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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.
    I can agree with part 1, Brave should have used the firefox engine or
    the engine from Safari instead. Browser makers don't want to do it the hard way.

    Except for those that do, because the only rule that has no exception is that every rule has an exception. :P

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  • From Neko@VERT/MIYANET to Arelor on Monday, September 30, 2024 16:18:22
    Re: Re: Brave browser
    By: Arelor to Gamgee on Mon Sep 16 2024 18:34:03

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Yeah, that's pretty bad... Heard that Pale Moon developer(s) killed MyPal too. I'll have to find a replacement for it on my older Windows installations.
    RetroZilla doesn't solve some SSL/TLS incompatibilities that happen in my use case, but Pale Moon does it pretty okay... unless the website depends too much on JavaScript and CSS 3.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Neko on Thursday, October 03, 2024 19:20:54
    Re: Re: Brave browser
    By: Neko to Arelor on Mon Sep 30 2024 04:18 pm

    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.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Thursday, October 03, 2024 23:33:36
    Re: Re: Brave browser
    By: Arelor to Neko on Thu Oct 03 2024 07:20 pm

    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 ditched firefox because it used to have all those memory holes. i only used it for the addons. now with chrome they have the addons i can use so i'm happier.
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  • From Neko@VERT/MIYANET to Arelor on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 13:41:14
    Re: Re: Brave browser
    By: Arelor to Neko on Thu Oct 03 2024 19:20:54

    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.

    Cool! I'll have to try it.

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