Didn’t the CEO recently step down or am I confused?

Looks like Mozilla will always depend on that google check lol.

Las time I could not watch youtube vids in the background in firefox.

I also had trouble getting files that download multiple files at once to work on firefox.

Brave is an interesting case, they found a way to make money that doesn’t involve tracking their users, making deals with google or be closed source lol

If you hate that fine, I definitely prefer that than the other alternatives lol.

But Brave has superb AdBlocking capabilities compared to every other browser for iPhone

It is the same on android, it even lets me watch youtube vids without ads and in the background.

Brave is great, has configurable keybinds, nice default adblock block list, vertical tabs, syncing sessions without email, etc.

And on android it can play youtube vids on the background.

The crypto ads just get disabled on the new tab page, you don’t even have to go to the settings lol. And vivaldi is partially closed source btw.

Maybe I have to give it another try but this experience was the worst possible advertisement for “gaming on Linux” 😐

I mean there isn’t much more that can be done, these days that is usually the issue with gaming in linux, either the game has anti cheat which you cannot fix or the launcher of the application changes and you have to wait for it to get fixed.

The good news is that more studios are starting to release native versions of their linux games, so hopefully in the future this isn’t as much of an issue.

By recently you mean this year? The paradox launcher was broken on the steamdeck a year ago, should be working now.

Also iirc that game has a native linux version.

By videos you also mean youtube videos? Because last time I tried firefox it could not do that.

This is common on the cheap X79 and X99 motherboard combos being sold in aliexpress, they even add nvme support.

tell me about it! literally the ONE thing keeping me from FF at the moment. vertical tabs are too vital to my workflow at this point to sacrifice.

I don’t know exactly how to do it, I know you can because when I was in the firefoxcss subreddit there were many posts on how people came up with their own solutions for vertical tabs.

I wanted vertical tabs to save on screenspace, for some reason the default firefox has the biggest top bar of all browsers and it is horrible, this is the userChrome.css that I use, it does what I wanted but it is not vertical tabs:

https://imgur.com/h39dsHL.png

https://pastebin.com/r54QRbKx

It is also keyboard centric, I also had to install an extension because firefox (and this only happens on linux) uses alt+number to switch between tabs instead of control+number.

No I did not, I knew the website because I had used the tool before, not the other way around.

Thanks for letting me know about the conflict of interest, do you have any suggestions of a similar test?

All chromium based browsers are shit. Switch to hardened firefox or librewolf

I’ve used firefox for years, in fact I sitll have librewolf on my PC with a custom userChrome.css, but the browsing experience is only getting worse every year and mozilla only breaks userChrome with every new update.

I also mentioned librewolf in my original comment already.

Plus I am not sure how anyone can even trust Brave’s browser when they are sketchy as fuck.

They are open source lol

The same functionality can be achieved if you spend literally like 5 minutes on it

How do you sync your browser sessions without having to use an email? This is what mostly keeps me on brave.

Also it really took me a while to get librewolf to block the cookie prompts from websites, because I had to go into the ublock origin settings and find the filter that blocks the cookie prompts, brave on the other hand does this automatically for you. As well as already having a built in dark mode, you don’t have to install 6 different extensions which is what I have on librewolf to get it to work.

Also on linux firefox maps the alt+number keys to change tabs instead of using control+number keys, again on brave this comes by default, on firefox that is also another extension that needs to be added to fix that.

In fact can you even change the background color of the new tab page in firefox? On brave it is super easy, it even lets you use an image, on librewolf I had to use a custom userContent.css for something so basic wtf.

Also you didn’t go into details on what makes a browser good for privacy, brave can even block scripts if we are talking about going beyond the default settings, which on librewolf you have to use an extension as well to achive that.

https://github.com/privacytests/privacytests.org

You can get vertical tabs on firefox with custom userChrome.css but it is a nightmare to setup and mozilla is only interested on breaking userChrome with every update lol.

Who is the brave employee that runs it? privacytest is actually a open source test that you can run in your browser and has its own repo.

Alright what makes a browser good for privacy if fingerprinting does not count? (it does but I want to hear what you will say).

It actually is, it comes with good fingerprinting protection by default.

https://privacytests.org/

Firefox doesn’t even come with ublock origin installed, brave has all the lists built in and will even ask you to block the cookie prompts as well without having to go the adblock settings.

Edit: The people downvoting this comment instead of having a discussion are really winning me over to their side /s

Welcome to the linux world of ideology driven recommendations.

I fell for this crap when I switched from using nvidia to amd because the constant bashing that nvidia gets by linux users only to discover that hardware acceleration is so broken on amd that using the cpu yields better results lol.