No idea why people use and recommend Brave when Firefox exists. It's full of crypto and other unnecessary add-ons out of the box.
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Since it is based on Chromium, but promises to keep the new Google tracking out in the future and maintain compatibility with extensions, I can see why it would be recommended. But only as a backup to access a site that won't load in Firefox.
we're back to the days when Firefox first came out, except instead of some websites only working with IE, they'll only work in Chrome/Edge.
It's faster on older devices
Firefox still doesn't have vertical tabs which I've found really useful for my workflow right now, so I use a fork called Pulse. Don't want to use any extensions for it when Pulse and other forks do it natively.
There's a million add-ons that add this, isn't there? I have one installed at home that basically makes it into what arc has
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sorry, why not tree style tabs?
you can hide the normal tab bar and only have the tree style ones on the side
I explain it in another comment, tl;dr: have to edit userChrome.css to give it a more streamlined look (and Mozilla calls that feature "legacy" in about:config since v69 which kinda worries me about that feature's removal) and I'm not sure if some extensions might conflict (Would it have issues with Simple Tab Groups). Pulse does it natively and really well, so I'm happy with it.
I know it's most likely not relevant with you anymore, since you're using Pulse, but have you tried any of the vertical/tree tab extensions?
I used Tree Style Tab but I didn't like having to change the userChrome.css to make it streamlined (i.e. hiding the tab bar), while Pulse does it natively and really well. I do have an extension for tab groups that imitates Vivaldi's tab workspaces though, not sure if those will conflict. (If you're curious, it's called Simple Tab Groups.)
Edit: There's also the issue of Mozilla calling the editable userChrome.css a legacy feature, which kinda worries me about its possible removal. Pulse having vertical tabs as a native feature skips that.
Brave has marketed itself more aggressively than Firefox did.
Additionally, Firefox' most devoted userbase can be quite bitter at times.
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This is such a terrible font for anything that isn’t a logo
I thought there was something wrong with my screen!
What even is that font? I've seen it before but can't place it.
What in the name of Santa is that font
Poor font forces concentration and consideration from the reader.
MADE Evolve Sans
Just yesterday I was searching for photos in Brave. Right from the outset without clicking on anything, there was a huge, unclosable banner taking up a third of the screen that was an ad for Etsy or something. I tried to go to settings to change it to how it was before, but I was confronted with another ad in the settings:
“Want ad-free search results? Upgrade to Search Premium™ today!”
Time to finally make that switch to Firefox, I guess.
They should've done what they did with the YouTube ads and told the user to block this ad using their browser as well.
The real crime is that font
"You have become the thing you swore to destroy"
Tbh I'm not sick of ads. I'm sick of video ads. More and more ublock doesn't block video ads but blocks all else. I don't mind anything but video ads over my videos and popup ads.
Both (all) ads are bad though. I would rather have none of them while surfing the web. NextDNS and uBlock has been such a friend over the years for me regarding that 🥰
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The other big irony is that if google gets rid of ad blockers on chromium browsers, brave is chromium
Brave actually doesn’t take all of Chromium’s new code. They write patches that modify what gets brought in or used, which allows them to avoid bringing in changes they don’t like.
More info here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/10742158329613-What-does-Brave-remove-from-the-Chromium-engine-
See also https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromium
I don’t know how extensive Brave’s changes are, but it would definitely be easy for them to add their own ad blocker. On the other hand, changes like re-enabling the entire APIs that were taken away from extensions would likely be out of scope.
It’s an interesting process but I’d personally rather just use Firefox
Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think Brave Ads are opt-in. I have brave installed (although I use Librewolf as my main browser) and I've never seen an ad, you just need to disable them from the settings. Ads are just for those who want to earn BAT (the weird crypto token) by seeing ads.
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