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"I have Brave installed on the iPhone phone provided me by my employer."

How do you like Brave?

I'm looking for another Browser after the garbage coming out of Mozilla yesterday.

I’ve been running Brave for about two years and it works good for me.

Browser “looker:”

BRAVE works well.

YIPPY by IBM WATSON is great!
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You can never count out OPERA.

How do you like Brave?

I miss a proper menu bar (that Mozilla Firefox has an option). I don't like that it is based on Chrome, but I LOVE the ad blocking, especially in Windows. Once in a while, the protections keep certain websites from loading, so I have Brave/Edge on my Windows box and Brave/Safari on my work iPhone. Chrome plug-ins mostly work okay in Brave. Moving bookmarks was not an issue.

I love firefox so I don’t know if I’ll be giving it up as long as they don’t start blocking sites like FR. With FF, I right click, move pointer to Open in New Tab and let go of the mouse button. Super fast single motion and single click. Every other browser you have to right click, move pointer to open in new tab and then left click. I do web design and ff has the best set of tools for web dev. I run two instances of ff; regular ff and ff developer’s edition. I also run Brave at the same time. I’m an open tab maniac and probably have 150 tabs open between the three browsers.

Something I hate about Brave is the tabs won’t scroll. They just build up and get narrower and narrower until there’s not even one letter showing for the title of the tab. I’ve searched for an extension for scroll tabs but there’s not one. One thing I do like about Brave is a right click Open Image in New Tab feature.

Falkon is a nice fast browser too and like Brave, is a Chromium based browser, https://www.falkon.org/download/ Falkon has the File, Edit, View etc toolbar. Also has a bookmarks toolbar but they put it below the address bar which is different. I haven’t opened enough tabs in Falkon yet to know if they’ll be scrollable. Falkon is made by KDE(Linux) so I don’t know how the Windows version is. Ought to be the same for the most part. It has a built in Adblock.

Chromium is what Chrome and others are based on. So when someone says Chrome based browser, it’s really Chromium based. Chromium can be installed easily in Linux but for Windows, you have to compile the source code of the nightly builds. The Chromium Project is sponsored by google but Chromium is open source. Most of Chrome’s source code comes from Google’s free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. I don’t trust google. They did get caught sneaking tracking stuff into the code years back. Sadly, Chrome is the most used browser. It’s also the main part of Chrome OS which is what most tablets use. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo Linux. Google loves taking advantage of the work of Open Source developers and their software and turning out a product that’s proprietary.

I loath google but all these Chromium based browsers don’t really have anything to do with google aside from the fact that google sponsors Chromium development. Chromium itself is open source though so it’s safe. You do have to use the same Extensions store as Chrome and that’s run by google but most of the extensions/themes themselves are third party.

Opera and MS Edge browsers are also based on Chromium. I use Opera Mini on our Android phone.