Wow, it worked! You are right, no commercials! Awesome!
Apple Safari has gotten real flaky the past year or so. Pages stop loading. Ad blockers not working. When a page stops loading, Google Chrome will not launch.
I’ll try Brave. Too bad it won’t import all my many bookmarks from Safari (at least it wouldn’t when I started it). I’ll look to see if it can do that. I have LOTS of bookmarks and carefully organized in many folders.
Thanks for the tip.
You are welcome
My Safari acting fine lately, (I do use Brave occasionally for “BAT” rewards “tipping”) but in case you want to import Safari bookmarks into Brave you have to do some extra steps due to Apple disk security: