I’m choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I’m considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled “extension” like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?
Edit: some people are mentioning brave’s cryptocurrency. I don’t want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.
With how ripe the Chromium Monopoly is for abuse, I would strongly consider using Firefox. Or even better, Librewolf.
@first_ad4972 as far as i know, firefox consumes less ressources than Chromium. But don’t know if Brave changed some stuff to make it more efficient.
uBlock shouldn’t affect firefox very negatively. As far as I know, even more positively. Because there is less content to load.
Edit: look at the screenshot. That’s from uBlocks Website.
Edit 2: Lemmy doesn’t display my Image. It sais uBlock lets Firefox consume even less ressources.
Please don’t use Brave. It’s got a bunch of crypto bullshit built into it, has a terrible track record of doing scummy shit, and to top it all off is based on chromium anyway.
Just use Firefox!
A comment I was waiting for. “Brave is crypto scam, period”. OP you won’t get an objective insight from Firefox community.
Use Firefox. Brave is Chromium. Brave’s crypocurrency stuff is shady, I need a browser not a crypto. uBlock (arguably the best extension) properly only works on Firefox. There is LibreWolf (Firefox mod) if you want ready to use, hardened browser.
Just before all the Brave haters on this sub appear telling you Brave is crypto scam etc. - this is all based on lack of research and just blindly following headlines. You can turn off all the crypto features, Brave won’t force you to jump onto crypto train once you download the browser. They had some unfortunate accident of using affiliate links based on the page you’ve been visiting, but they quickly abandoned the idea. The way I see it is they want to somehow make money out of this as developing a browser is not a cheap undertaking. And yes, Brave is an ad company. But they’re trying to do all this in privacy-preserving way, somehow attempting to change how the ad business currently works on the web. However if you don’t wish to get any ads you can opt out (or just never opt in) of all this and enjoy good browser with good privacy defaults and built in adblocker. Brave is based on chromium though. Whether you wish to support chromium dominance on the web is your personal preference.
Yea no its still looking scam
Looks like a valid argument
You can turn it off but the fact it’s in there in the first place is a big red stop light.
“You can turn off X” is not a good enough excuse.
Once upon a time, I used to daily Edge when it was a pretty decent browser. But once it was handed over to the Bing team who started jerry-rigging garbage into it that was it for me. You could also “turn a lot of it off”, but that doesn’t help when new less-than-ideal features are introduced or setting it up on a new PC.
Brave Rewards are turned off by default.
It’s a scam and they pushing it pretty aggressively.
Have you ever used Brave?
I moved from Vivaldi to Brave and used it for some time.
I know Brave has a feature to turn off inactive tabs to reduce memory consumption. Don’t think Firefox does
Not sure if it’s an official feature somewhere but I use Auto Tab Discard and it works very well. It also has whitelisting supporting for when you want specific websites to never be discarded.
Firefox does
Natively?
Yep. Strangely there’s a discussion about it on Reddit from a few days before the blackout
