Freeper cynwoody's Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer (FRPFE) does work on the Brave Browser (Chromium engine) Internet browser. I am getting a connection failure on that today. But my previous attempt was on a browser that already had the FR enhancer and thus showed no response, as did mine. But which installs on a install of Firefox/Floorp (keep reading) browser. Thank God.
Brave is Chromium-based, as most browsers are, and I find such to be inferior to Gecko-based Firefox, Floorp, and Mercury, mainly because you cannot enable multiple tab rows (as you could/can with legacy Firefox, and up to Firefox ESR 52.9 .
However, the best Chromium-based browser IMO is Vivaldi, and you can enable multiple tab rows on that, as you can for Firefox via various instructions, none of which are official options. I found that The Patcher works well (though FF updates sometimes broke it, thus needing an update).
However, Floorp (written by Japanese students) enables this as a feature (preferences>design). See review here.
And with Floorp, I found you can run multiple installations of it (which you can with portable Firefox with a little editing, as I do, each generally for its own purpose). Thank God for such options.
I hadn't used Vivaldi in years and back then, it wasn't full featured by any means. Then I installed it again earlier this year. Quite a difference and I haven't yet learned all it will do these days. I like the 0.5 second browser start time.
I like the side pane where you can even have a second web page(Web panel) in it while surfing in the main pane. If I wasn't on a mid sized laptop and had a decent size monitor, I'd probably have X always open in the side pane.
I might have to make the swap to Vivaldi anyway. Web Panel would be handy in the early mornings when the only lights I use is a few red LEDs to light up the coffee maker area. The LEDs are on a smart relay that connects to the Ethernet on my router and I can turn it on/off via the browser at a local numeric IP address.
I used a PeppermintOS app called Ice to create a SSB(site-specific browser) for my LED lights. It's a browser stripped of it's menu, address bar and other features to make it more like an app. It uses less resources that way. Ice is for Debian/Ubuntu users. Ice also creates a menu item for your application/programs menu and you can either choose an icon for that or it will use the favicon or it's default icon. By default, it will stick the menu item/icon under the Internet section of the menu but you can choose a different section.
My LED switch web page as an SSB and I did use Vivaldi for it but you can also use Firefox or Brave/Chromium/Chrome.
If I had a big monitor, I would probably have X and FR as SSBs and then have a full browser for general surfing. I have SSBs for RokuTV, PlutoTV & TubiTV websites but rarely use them. I do use one for TuckerCarlson.com and run it on a different virtual desktop and just listen as I surf for the most part.
Ice on github - https://github.com/peppermintos/ice
Ice on Launchpad where a deb install file is available - https://launchpad.net/~peppermintos/+archive/ubuntu/ice-dev/+packages
SSBs on wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser
Since my Kubuntu menu is fully editable, I could create SSBs manually by adding a menu item and copying what Ice created.
Chromium/Chrome version is the same of course.
As is Brave
I have Firefox installed as a Snap/snapd application and Ice doesn't see it so I can't create a FF SSB so I don't know what the command is but as you can see above, the command to start any Chromium based browser as a SSB is the same and the same commands can be used in a terminal and any url could be swapped in. --app= is the trigger.
Kind of bugging me about firefox. Seems to only be available as a Snap or Flatpak these days, neither of which Ice will see. Might have to fire up an old laptop and put Ice on it and make a FF SSB to see the command. Firefox removed the ssb feature a few years ago so maybe it simply won't work now. I know I've done it before but it's been a while.
