mhoyeIf you're switching to Firefox this week, I collected a list of the team's favourite hidden features back when I worked there:
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@mhoye Interesting. Saved for later. I recently tried to 'transition' to FF and then went back to Brave. Probs need your tips...
Ruweg 🇳🇱🐺@bytebro @mhoye
I would not trust Brave. Their founder has backed anti-gay laws, which is already reprehensible.
The browser itself supports crypto, replaces ads (a security risk), and at one point injected affiliate links.
For a browser focusing on privacy, the latter two are massive red flags.
Here's a full article giving the rundown: https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
king toot uncommon@randomwolfguy @bytebro @mhoye also the guy behind it invented (shudder) JavaScript, in case those other facts don't scare you enough
@capn_b @randomwolfguy @mhoye Hah! I'm aware of the feelings of many about the person behind Brave, of course. I've naturally disabled all the telemetry, 'news' and crypto nonsense in Brave. It's still one of the few browsers to rid me of all the advertising cruft on YouTube, for example, out of the box.
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I tried FF for about a full week, and it's still not for me, at least not yet. Very slow in comparison to Brave, and some of its rendering decisions are just perverse, in my view. Oh, and as my home machine is running Garuda I also tried their version of FF ('DragonFire' or something), but that seems to be just a pretty skin over FF.
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