Brave vs Firefox Pros and Cons

[Bravo63251]

Brave Pros:
Fast as hell
Privacy focused
Easy access and creation of profiles
Site info is easily accessible

Brave Cons:
PIP is terrible
Most extensions (that I’ve used) aren’t very good
Based on Chromium which is made by Google
Tor feature creates a false sense of anonymity (it doesn’t change your finger prints like the Tor Browser does)

FireFox pros:
The best PIP I’ve ever used
Supports lots of really good extensions
Bookmarks can be sorted
Gecko is open source and not made by Google

Firefox cons:
Slow as hell
Sync requires an email
Profiles arent easy to access and create

Overall Brave and Firefox are pretty good browsers. I just wish Brave could fully remove Google’s presence from the Browser, Because when I tried doing certain things with my cookies, I found out that Chromium has a bias towards Google’s platforms, and this bias has leached over to Brave. If Brave just makes a good Picture in Picture feature (just allow me to change the video’s time with arrow keys please) that would be really appreciated

[fanboynz]

@Bravo63251

PIP is terrible
Most extensions (that I’ve used) aren’t very good
Based on Chromium which is made by Google

• PIP improvements are incoming: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593559/google-chrome-picture-in-picture-document-test

• The extensions used by Brave are via the chrome store, out of the scope of Brave. The extension used on Chrome store are decent assuming they’re updated often and patch in any bugs. My thoughts, ideally the less extensions installed the better to avoid potential false positives/webcompat issues. When testing disabling all extensions, test in private window mode is often a first step.

• Chromium == bad because of Google? we see improvements from upstream also so it’s not all bad, we patch out the privacy issues. Seems like a win-win. See: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)

[Guptraju342]

Thanks for telling us

[Bravo63251]

Chromium itself isn’t bad, but it seems that the code for it has a bias towards Google services. Google’s platforms get special treatment over other platforms. I would like for Brave to treat all websites the same.