Vivaldi and Firefox are better choices.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
For god sakes don’t use Brave. Brave has been caught doing shady shit in the past, and the CEO is a piece of shit on top of that.
Use Firefox with privacy addons.
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
hannes3120@feddit.de 8 months ago
Vivaldi is the best!
Currently trying out Floorp as a Firefox fork for the possibility that Google’s disabling of adblockers in the manifest will make it impossible to use chromium browsers which is kind of good, too
But Vivaldi rules as long as chromium is an option!
madis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Floorp looks nice and customizable, but in terms of updates it doesn’t seem very sustainable yet.
hannes3120@feddit.de 8 months ago
I get updates every other week
but I think it’s in a weird spot with not having regular English patchnotes - and afaik they also use an older rendering-engine
markon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is one issues though… Firefox is extremely slow and clunky. I hate to say it, but on mobile it is hard to use all the time for me. On desktop I’m Firefox 95% of the time but some sites don’t work very well with the much slower JavaScript engine. This isn’t to defend Brave or any chromium browser but we gotta get Firefox up to speed.
the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is on iOS. There is no Firefox (geko) or Chromium, there is only skins of Safari so your point is moot. For now.
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Firefox and chromium both outperform Safari in performance tests. It’s Safari that’s the third rate browser. No one would use that shit if it wasn’t forced on them.
There’s a reason Apple stopped making it for other platforms. Safari can’t compete without Apple kneecapping the competition.
markon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wow safari is shit. I didn’t know it was that far behind. Damn. Well, to be fair my problem is my Pixel 6 is a slow ass buggy Google nightmare product. Firefox probably works fine on a Samsung phone but then I can’t install GrapheneOS. Yet I have never bothered so… Samsung and their locked bootloader may be preferable just so Firefox has more hardware to run on lol.
RedSeries@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like Firefox has made some really great strides on the performance front. Especially considering how bloated chrome has gotten as a comparison. But… Yeah that’s valid. I love Firefox like 99% of the time but sometimes I’m almost forced to swap to Chrome to get a site to work correctly or reliably.
markon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Site devs need to see the threat from browser engine monopolies too. Valve literally started pouring resources into Linux gaming just because Microsoft looked like they were trying to dominate game stores on Windows. Chromium actually dominates the web. I guess at least base chromium is open source. Still though, one of those markets is way bigger than the other and it definitely isn’t Linux gaming. (God I love Proton/WINE and how far we’ve come!)
dai@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Firefox is fine on mobile in my eyes.
At least the Android version, even on my 5 year old Exynos phone it does what I need / want from a browser. Allows (some) extensions, lets me zoom wherever I want to on any page, has a reader mode and is snappy enough on old hardware.
Chrome tries to be / do far too much for me, just fuck off and let me browse the web. I do like the dynamic colours that Chrome on mobile uses on different webpages, is hot.
However Chrome gives me dirty Microsoft vibes, and it’s pretty hard to shake that stank.
If your on iOS welcome to the walled garden. Hope you live in the EU.
markon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just have a shitty phone. Lol don’t buy a Pixel 6. (Unless you pick it up really cheap for temporary use)
turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Wasn’t the Brave CEO formerly the Mozilla CEO, back when Mozilla was doing a good job?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yes, until he was ousted for being trash as a person.
turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
and Mozilla has been doing poorly since.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mozilla was doing poorly when he was CEO as well. Google has been doing everything they can to force Chrome.
He was CEO for 11 days and in that time all he did was cause a bunch of websites to show a banner requesting that users install a different browser in order to not support a homophobe.
There was also a boatload of articles about his homophobia that brought Mozilla into disrepute.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Would you hire a bigot to run your company so long as the numbers go up? Fuck that mentality.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
But in iOS , addons (ublock origin) are not available at least outside EU, so brave is the better choice as it got brave shield
cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This isn’t true, Safari has that exact extension
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Explain please , I can’t figure out how to use unlock origin in iPad
cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So you’re gonna want do a space+command and type extensions, that should open the App Store to where you want to be, unlock is one of the top extensions.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m going to do my best to give this answer when I’m less drunk tomorrow
Hobbes@startrek.website 8 months ago
This is too far down.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Don’t worry, Firefox downloads in the EU have also skyrocketed.