Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:

  1. FOSS
  2. Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I’d actually be okay with ads if they didn’t track me
  3. Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don’t want a repeat of the IE era
  4. Security
  5. Performance

  Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don’t really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).

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  • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good for you. I actively refuse to use it or any of its derivatives to avoid endorsing Mozilla by giving them market share. Additionally, I find that Brave just performs better (and needs one extension less to be functional).

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I care a lot about rendering engine diversity, and Firefox is the largest non-chromium browser, so I use it. It’s fast enough for me, and my handful of extensions gives me what I need.

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      • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Again, good for you.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brave also ticks all of them?

    at this point, Firefox’s development is not very much more open than Chromium’s

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It doesn’t tick #3, hence why I use a Firefox browser as my main. If they had their own rendering engine, I would consider it as my main. But for now, it’s my backup in case I need a website that doesn’t work on Firefox (i.e. they use something Chrome-specific).

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Valid point then. We need compatibility with gecko, I always found it better looking than chromium

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