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I hate Brendan Eich, I hate the constant annoyances of Brave adding cards and sponsored backgrounds, I hate the dominance of Chromium, and I hate cryptocurrency.
But this is a fight I've lost.
I'm one of those insufferable Linux nerds who has spent $50+hours/month setting up a Nextcloud VPS, calling my friends Nazi-adjacent for using Twitter, etc. I'm horribly opinionated about software. I WANT everyone to use Firefox.
But I just don't have the spare time for Firefox anymore.
I've had irreconcilable, breaking issues with vanilla Firefox installs on almost every major desktop and mobile OS (excluding KaiOS and Apple WatchOS) every time I tried to switch to it during the past few years. This is not exaggeration.
From crashing because it can't handle keyboard-arrow down on iPadOS, lacking good built-in adblock controls (like Brave Shields) on Android and iOS, to being unable to load hCaptcha on desktop even after hours of user.js flitching. This is on top of the inconvenience of not having a good alternative to Chromium's Profile UI, the inconvenience of needing to test on Chrome when doing webdev, etc.
Brave is a putrid steaming pile of shit, but it's the best choice I've found. This post exaggerates a lot of the very real issues Brave has. This isn't praise for Brave, but rather an indictment on the state of browsing and personal-computing.
I write here very sparingly. With this comment, I hope someone will tell me I'm an idiot who's missing a wonderful browser out there.
I've had no instability issues with Librewolf in my time using it. However, how can you be both an insufferable Linux nerd and someone who uses Apple products? And when it comes to Android, you should be able to just install uBlock Origin or a system-wide ad blocker like AdGuard.
These aren't irreconcilable. Suffice to say I'm an extra annoying person.
Brave on mobile has per-site JavaScript controls that are quick and easy to access within the browser. I don't know of anything nearly as good.
uBlock origin should have per-site assuming it works the same as on desktop.
It's not the same as on desktop, especially for iPadOS and iOS, which doesn't have extensions and does not have an equivalent for Brave Shields (as far as I can tell).
For iOS and iPadOS try out Orion Browser by Kagi. Great built-in adblocker and they have (very) experimental support for desktop extensions.
I'm sort of a Linux nerd and I have an iPad. The reason being when I bought my iPad not many Android tablets satisfies my needs. The few that sort of do don't support third party ROMs and stock / manufacturer bloated Android imo is even more of a privacy disaster than stock iOS. However that has changed since the release of the new Pixel tablets which supports Graphene. I might try that out when my iPad retires.
Yeah I've used Firefox on several platforms and never had these issues. Sounds like a you thing
I too use firefox based browser on linux, windows and android with lots of privacy focused extensions installed and don't have any of the problem he is describing.
Yeah, I actually think that person is lying honestly
Yes, but "doesn't cover edge cases" isn't a good thing for Firefox.
I don't think that's an accurate framing. I have had slow and fast machines on several oses and they all ran it fine. You might have been cursed by a witch or something? Shit's not remotely normal
I'm not running into issues with performance, I am running into issues with functionality.
I understand that. You, and you alone have these numerous, numerous (non existent) issues