For anyone considering Firefox but still reluctant for reasons check out Waterfox. It's been the best for me for years now. Honestly the best fork.

I've used "Firefox" since Mozilla 1995 0.x release. It's great software, but it has issues. I use Brave as primary these days, because the entire internet is QA'd with Chromium, and FIrefox just hits too many issues, even on the most recent versions. I use Firefox as secondary every day though too. I need multiple browsers to separate o365 AD creds.

Now I'm getting curious about the vivaldi browser. It's chromium based (apart from firefox, what isn't) but seems pretty security/privacy aware.

I switch back and forth between Chrome and Firefox but always end up sticking with Chrome for longer:

• screensharing via Firefox freezes the entire computer
• FF sync is too slow between devices
• FF does not allow VOD streaming above 720p (except YT obviously; Chrome works up to 4k!)
• both are memory hogs but at least you get responsiveness in Chrome
• FF on Android does not support tablet layout
• FF on Android keeps refreshing pages when changing tabs
• FF password manager on Android does not work when needed outside the browser in 99% of cases

I wish I could switch to Firefox

I was looking for the best all-rounder for Android and Windows and after watching some videos and checking privacytests.org I landed on Brave

There are plenty of both. I use 5 different browsers for different things.

Brave

how exactly does chrome not respect my privacy?

and i don't just mean "because it's google and google is an ad company". what specifically is it sending to some internet server that firefox doesn't? both the firefox and address bars send what you type into them to a search provider. as near as i can tell, firefox's committment to privacy is to say "we protect your privacy" while doing all the same stuff that chrome does.

Brave is pretty good too

Chromium is OSS so it is fine.

What about brave ????

It unironically has to be Chromium

I'll keep avoiding firefox as long as they keep pushing weird decision with each update, the latest one being forcing "pocket recommendation" on the new tab page, even if the built-in (that is, you can't remove it) pocket extension is disabled. Sure, I can go look for the new advanced parameter to disable every time, but why pull this shit in the first place.

Brave + privacyBadger is about the best you can do. If you turn all the features on it anonymizes your plugins and screen res returns enough that you can't be identified by a unique configuration.

It supports TOR for private browsing natively.

I don't trust them more than Mozilla, but the do a better job at keeping my browsing habits out out the hands of my ISP and the sites I visit.

God this community is so pathetic

Debloated Brave

It doesn't have to be Chromium, but asserting that Firefox is the only browser that respects your privacy is just untrue. Edit: I use FF and Brave for different browsing, as some websites just don't like FF.

Appearently brave is the most privacy focused browser. At least according to this paper from 3y ago.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

Edit: guys I know that Brave is not the best browser and I wouldn't recommend it, but I haven't seen studies or in depth articles about technical details of privacy concerns.

And I'm not being sarcastic, I wanna see them so I can make a more informed opinion.