Came here to say this. I’m seriously considering switching browsers at this point.
I wanted a privacy-centric Chrome fork with less Google involvement.
I didn’t want “a wallet”. I didn’t want a worse TOR browser. I didn’t want a torrent client. I didn’t want “Sync”. I didn’t want “rewards”. I certainly didn’t want an “AI assistant”.
With every update there are more boxes to untick when installing the browser. It’s seriously the worst case of “engineer’s dilemma” I’ve come across in a while. Have to add features just to do something. To stay “innovative” while the core functionality suffers.
I believe I speak for a large portion of the userbase when I say that all we want is a basic browser that works well and respects privacy. If we need to add functionality, the extension feature is there.
I don’t believe you. Every dev says “the new features don’t impact performance”. When have you EVER seen “decreased performance” in patch notes?
“Free” features with literally zero performance impact don’t exist.