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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Any Alternative to Brave? I have FF as primary browser but for some websites which tends to break on FF, I would like to use something non-Chrome/Brave on Windows.

[–] Dehydrated 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Librewolf sounds like Brave, but built on top of Firefox. It also doesn't spam you with stupid ads like Brave does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But my alt should be Chromium based for the weird cases.

[–] crsu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Librewolf is better I think. It's pretty much a privacy hardened Firefox with the telemetry taken out. No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.

[–] Dehydrated 3 points 1 year ago

No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.

That's a great point

[–] shadowspirit 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FF is primary but started using Vivaldi as my chromium based browser.. I'm definitely not nerd level privacy geek but it hits all my check boxes for configuration, customization, and ease of use.

[–] Dougtron007 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep chromium as a secondary if something breaks on Firefox. It’s the foundation of chrome without all the silly Google shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dougtron007 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this is what I’m looking for.

[–] Phrodo_00 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use edge for the edge case when websites don't work after changing the user agent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have found edge to be more bloaty than brave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which sites? I haven't had that in years.

(And you can report them to Mozilla and they will fix it by either fixing a bug or creating a workaround for that site)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Top of my Head: Ms Teams.

Also, on side note, FF on Desktop doesn't support PWAs while on Mobile they do.