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[–] DriftingDeep@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I used to but it got bloated to hell and back.

[–] Ginkko117@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (17 children)

I use Brave as a second browser (mainly to separate different activities) and did not have any issues with it apart from dragging tabs between monitors (it creates an additional empty tab sometimes when doing this). Turned off all unnecessary stuff right when I first launched it and that's it. No bloat, no issues, just works. Didn't know about this CEO controversy but seeing as it was a long time ago, don't think it's a valid reason to not use Brave. And both logo and name are cool.
It's a solid option which we don't really have a lot of in open source space

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[–] Slyme@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I only use it for when a site will not work in FFX-based browsers

[–] mah@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] Hailstorm8440@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only use brave for iOS because it is the best there is

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FYI every browser on iOS has to use webkit under the hood as per crapple's diktat, it's just a fork of safari like PC brave is a fork of chromium, eve Firefox on iOS uses webkit AFAIK

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[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

qutebrowser ftw

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