Well the Brave Twitter account is likely a bit biased toward the Brave browser. 🙂
I’m sure the others were impacted too.
OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah but Brave? Why not Firefox or Vivaldi.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 months ago
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Vivaldi is a proprietary rebranding of Chromium. Can’t say I’d recommend it over Firefox.
OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
True but if you use Vivaldi and then you try to go back to Firefox, it’s like going back in the early 2000s. I always say this, Firefox should have been like Vivaldi. Super customizable and packed with features. Instead you have to rely on extensions and thus put your trust in the creator of said extension that they will not sell it. Heck even with extensions, trying to mimic the new tab page from Vivaldi is a masterclass in patience.
hOrni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vivaldi is my go to browser. Brave does a better job with blocking ads. I’m switching to Brave whenever I need to stream something on a site loaded with ads, or when YouTube manages to detect my Adblock for a few days.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Not like uBlock Origin is a thing?
Can it really get better than that and consent-o-matic?Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
"This Other Browser is just as good as Brave*!"
- if you install x, y, and z and uninstall a and b
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You are comparing a tool to a tool belt in terms pf capabilities.
hOrni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am using uBlock Origin on my Vivaldi. It doesn’t block everything.
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
It’s not supposed to block everything. Neither does brave.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t like that you can’t use the Dark Reader extension on mobile in Vivaldi. I like all of my websites to be dark.
nooneshere@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I guess it does have a built in dark mode
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Firefox +50% in Germany, +30% in France
turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Still better than Edge or Chrome
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 8 months ago
Because it blocks ads out of the box. I know its new tab screen causes a lot of y’all’s buttholes to clench because it mentions cryptocurrency, but there are harder things to ignore
strawberry@kbin.run 8 months ago
as someone said, its randomised, and I'm sure that other browsers also saw more downloads
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 months ago
Because it's listed as the first item on the browser choice screen for some reason, probably
FatCat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TheMinions@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean it’s probably just alphabetical, but I wouldn’t know for sure.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 months ago
The second one is Edge, and Aloha Browser exists
latetolemmy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cause Firefox is trash and Mozilla a shell of their former selves?
RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Vivaldi is extremely slow on IOS and 2gb+ big. Firefox has no extensions so no Adblock. Generally there are few privacy friendly/Foss browsers on IOS.
progettarsi@feddit.it 8 months ago
firefox sucks for most people and vivaldi it’s too complicated to configure + it looks like pure bloat
max@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Why does it suck though? Works fine for me. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but even looking through my “end user glasses”, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wouldn’t say Firefox sucks but there are definitely some things that made me use Edge occasionally back when I used Firefox as my main browser. It was mainly stuff like a webpage that doesn’t support Firefox and extensions not having a Firefox version. Which sure aren’t problems with FireFox, it’s more a problem of it not having enough adoption, but to an end user if the thing they wanna use doesn’t work in FireFox but works in Chrome then that’s FireFox’s fault.
latetolemmy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Granted, I’m a software engineer,
Lmao love how you inserted “software engineer” there like that supposed to mean something.
max@feddit.nl 8 months ago
In this context, maybe it kinda does. We tend to be techies, so a bit more accustomed to shitty UI/UX than most users.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I have very few issues with Firefox. I fine across a site that does not render properly maybe once every other month. I did have some resource issues with it in Windows 10 with it using too much RAM (regularly using 3-4GB) but that has been fixed since I switch to Linux.
progettarsi@feddit.it 8 months ago
every site i use is slow af in librewolf (basically firefox) and also uses a lot of resources more than chromium based browsers
nooneshere@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Vivaldi is proprietary bullcrap. I don’t know why people keep sucking their dick
Norgur@fedia.io 8 months ago
Forgive them. They aren't used to choosing their browser yet.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They’re Apple users. They aren’t used to making any decisions when it comes to how their phones work
Nurgle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d defend myself, but I work in digital marketing so I’m not going to dissuade anyone from using AdWords… I mean Android.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Funny, I see far more ads on iOS than I do Android
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We don’t have to, cuz they work 😉
akilou@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They work the way Apple wants them to
cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t lump us all in with them, Safari with Adblock extensions on mobile, Firefox everywhere else
OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok you get a free pass, make sure it doesn’t happen again :)