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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I bounced between the two for years, i guess i am going back to Firefox full time.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The only reason I haven't switched to Firefox from Chrome fully is because for some reason Firefox for Android still doesn't have tabs for large screen devices. Mozilla says it's not a priority. 🤷

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Firefox for Android removing the ability to open local html files killed it for me. Currently on Vivaldi.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If that's your only gripe with it, you can still access them by using one of the simple web servers available running inside Termux, that will also allow you to avoid CORS related problems, in fact it is the currently suggested method on MDN

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why did they remove it though? I was surprised too when I found out I needed to run local webserver to access local html files

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    It was because of 'security', which was never explained. And it doesn't make much sense when other browsers can and do alow it. I'll see if I can dig up some historical links if I remember tomorrow.

    Last time I checked,there was still no acknowledgement of it and appeared to be no intention of ever addressing it. The fact that they're now telling people to run a webserver suggests that nothing has changed ☹️

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  • [+] -29 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    So use edge

    Its chrome-based.. but at least its not brave, and the adblocker(which is off by default...) is decent enough

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    If you think the things brave has done are bad, go read through the list of things microsoft has done. You really don't want them to ever have a browser again, and certainly don't want to personally use it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I used Brave for a few years but recently switched to LibreFox. I really enjoyed Brave as a browser but couldn't handle all the sketchy shit that seems to keep coming up

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I really enjoy the chromium grouping of tabs. So much so that's it's almost a deciding factor for which browser I choose. I hope Firefox adds that feature soon, so the switch back feels easier

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