I currently use Brave and am curious about the pros and cons of both since I see many people recommend Firefox.
Firefox.
Brave team has been caught doing sketchy and controversial things over time, and I personally can’t be bothered to support them.
Brave is not your friend - if they’re willing to violate copyright law by secretly scraping websites and then selling the content in their AI, I’m sure they’re willing to sell your data if the price is high enough (if they aren’t already).
Firefox, on the other hand, has been the most trusted browser since dial-up, and is run by a non-profit. It’s an easy choice for me.
Firefox is the only choice for me at this point.
If you left chrome thinking brave is not google, both are from companies made for profit. Both are based on chromium. You left one ad company for another.
Hardened Firefox (BetterFox user.js config) is my go to. Good browser. Do now want monopoly of Chromium.
Librewolf & mull are my goto
This. I’ve moved to those browsers some time ago and I’m very satisfied. uBO is also a MUST.
Both install it by default so it’s all good, just edit the filter lists
I like how Firefox doesn’t shove crypto shit down my throat nor want to monitorize my web browsing experience at all.
Get Librewolf
Firefox has one of my favorite privacy extensions that creates containers to group your tabs into, and I haven’t found an equivalent for chrome based browsers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
But if you like crypto, I’d go with Brave. Firefox recently broke a bunch of browser wallet / hardware wallet integrations by ditching U2F on the latest release without giving any of the big wallet programmers a heads up.
I’m no privacy savant, but I like Firefox better. I think it has the better “modern” interface. It is less buggy on my laptop, has better scrolling to my eye.
From a philosophical perspective I think the web should support more than one rendering engine.
I use Firefox, but only because I really don’t want to support Chromium’s monopoly. I do think that Chromium based browsers are better though.
I do think that Chromium based browsers are better though.
In which sense?
Self fulfilling prophesy, since some developers think so they only optimize their websites for chromium which in turn makes it true.
But in reality Firefox is perfectly capable and performant enough for everything.
firefox recently even caught up to chrome on the speedometer benchmark, which is nice.
Firefox recently passed chrome on the speedometer benchmark
Brave is great out of the box experience with a lot of privacy toggles enabled by default. Firefox can be hardened a bit more, but it requires more of a user input. Both are great options, so it mostly comes down to which engine you prefer, Blink or Gecko.
Some people also choose to use Firefox for a simple reason if it not based on Chromium to avoid monopolization.
Nobody has mentioned librewolf, which is a fantastic out of the box privacy browser. It’s a Firefox fork.
This is the way.:)
Is it truly just download and use?
I ask because I am not a tech person. I do not understand how to read or write code, what settings are the ones you need to safely change, etc.
I would happily try Librewolf if the browser is as simple as downloading
I love how much you can pimp out Firefox with custom CSS style sheets. However, the number one reason I use it is to show the internet that not everyone wants to just surrender to Chromium (and Google). If I could donate specifically to Firefox development, I would.
I have Brave as a backup and still use it from time to time. It’s a good browser. Privacy-wise it is probably better than vanilla Firefox but inferior to Librewolf (a security-hardened Firefox fork).
