Librewolf.
Everything here people have said about Brave, and it's chromium based
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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Brave is proprietary, and they have some sort of ad scheme to make money. Also the head of that operation is a known homophobe.
Mozilla are bought and paid for, controlled opposition. And everybody working there has about the same worldview as your average Facebook employee.
LibreWolf is just a couple of tweaks to Firefox to improve the situation a little bit. So let's say there is no good option.
Brave CEO is a chud donating to stuff like banning gay marriage. And the browser had some scandals in the past. I use librewolf myself but others would know more about browsers.
The guy who made brave is a bigot, iirc
Not brave
Mullvad browser 💅
I daily drive it. Run it close to stock as possible, save passwords with keepassxc. Use protonvpn or mullvadvpn with it. Can easily circumvent bans on Reddit and so on. Can't be fingerprinted. It's in the same class as Tor browser
lifelong firefox user here. any downsides at all to switching to LibreWolf? seems like something i should do
It still feels like Firefox. Extensions and everything still work, but it's a bit more privacy focused.
Import everything across and give it a go, I think it will feel the same
rad
LibreWolf is kinda strict about some privacy related settings and won't let you change them.
For example, on Linux it won't let websites follow light and dark mode because it is another piece of data that can be used to fingerprint you. You can still change it using about:config.
Other than that, it is just better Firefox.
Mullvad browser on pc and ironfox on android. Librewolf is good too. Brave CEO is scum.
Librewolf is awesome also the Brave CEO is a chud
I've been using Zen but the most recent update broke uBlock somehow and I was shocked at how many bullshit ads are shoved into absolutely everything, like 1337x torrents automatically downloads an installer for Opera when you click on a link.
Both, librewolf as daily driver and Brave when you need chromium (which does still happen these days). Privacyguides.org has good configurations for Brave. They recommend regular Firefox over Librewolf but it's not a whole lot different
Why not just use Chromium?
Manifest V2 support and superior anti-tracking features
Ah, okay. I might have to download Brave myself then.
Just to check, we're both talking about unChromium?
The versions you can get at that link, yeah. Not sure what's meant by "un"chromium—i know there's ungoogled chromium but that's not well maintained iirc
Ah, yeah, Ungoogled Chromium is what I meant!
Okay, good to know. Thank you!
What needs chromium? I have never encountered such a site.
Weird things like the CLEAR verification for LinkedIn, from memory. It won't explicitly say "this needs chromium!" But it'll refuse to work properly
Testing websites so they work correctly , also nice with lighthouse in the console . But that's about what I use it for
Tor Browser
Zen is derived from Firefox and someone here recommended it and it’s been nice. Heavily modified UI which differs from mainstream browsers which may or not be for you.
FireDragon used to be a LibreWolf derivative, now incorporates LW stuff into Floorp with additional tweaks. Found it to be a better experience than LW but YMMV.
Probably have 8 or so browsers installed to play with but those two get regular usage.
Nobara has recently switched to a modified Brave for ease of use. Personally will never use it, but passing this along for those who fall under certain use cases.
Brave has a couple conditions where it works better than Firefox-based or other Chrome-based browsers. Having VRR (variable refresh rate) enabled currently causes crashes when scrolling live video in Firefox-based browsers. Having Hardware Acceleration enabled currently breaks Google Meets in Chromium other than Brave unless you use the flatpak version.
If using Brave it is recommended to set the following options to disable stuff like crypto and AI (default Nobara settings):
- “BraveRewardsDisabled”: true,
- “BraveWalletDisabled”: true,
- “BraveVPNDisabled”: 1,
- “BraveAIChatEnabled”: false,
- “TorDisabled”: true,
- “DnsOverHttpsMode”: “automatic”
So until those bugs are fixed upstream, if you use VRR or Google Meets, Brave with the tweaks can offer a better experience. As others recommend, avoid altogether if those do not apply.