I love this quick to-the-point summary of most of the popular browsers out there right now. I’m a Firefox user, of course, since it’s the best choice between Chrome (I’d rather choose death), Safari (not cross-platform so utterly pointless), the various Chrome skins, and Firefox (the one independent browser). Still, I’m continuously worried about Firefox’ future – specifically on platforms other than Windows or macOS – and strongly believe we need more true alternatives for a healthier browser ecosystem.
I see the author’s “Mozilla Firebird”, and raise “Mozilla Phoenix”!
I downloaded it a couple years ago… its amazing how far we have come since them and also how much we have lost to bloat.
>Brave is run by a homophobic, anti-vax crypto clown. I won’t dignify it here with a link.
Stopped reading right there.
Agreed, Thom has went of the deep end with his own prejudice. There are valid reasons to be critical of brave but… prejudice against someone’s private beliefs isn’t among them.
Nazism is not a valid belief. The only good nazi is a dead nazi. We settled that debate in ’39-’45.
Calling people Nazi’s … that’s a you problem bro.
I agree with this statement. Luckily all Nazis from that period are dead or well over 90 years old and dead pretty soon.
Now how exactly does that connect to the Brave Browser or its author?
What exactly does make him a murderous national socialist?
So you’re… FOR supporting projects/software ran by people with such agendas? So you’re defacto FOR those agendas then. (Even if you think you aren’t, you are.).
Yeah, if this is enough for you to stop reading, how about just bow out of society too.
Be clear who exactly are you saying has “such an agenda”…. all I can figure is YOU are persecuting a guy for taking a stand against liberal social reform, which has virtually no positive effect on anyone anyway…
@colinstu
What exactly do you mean here by “such agendas”?
“There are valid reasons to be critical of brave but… prejudice against someone’s private beliefs isn’t among them.”
The hell it isn’t. If your private belief is that chocolate ice cream tastes better than vanilla, then the point you make is correct. Whether I disagree or not, I won’t hold it against any software you choose to publish. But if your private belief is that certain people should be denied equal treatment under the law and/or leads to kids dying of preventable diseases, then that is a PERFECTLY VALID reason for me not to support anything you are involved in.
For work I have to default to Edge, but for fun lately I’ve been playing with Floorp and I have to say it’s a good Mozilla alternative. I think in Floorp I’ve found all the performance that Firefox seems to have lost.
The only true answer now-a-days to the mono-browser hellscape we live in is running Haiku and using WebPositive, or switching to Gemini.
WebPositive is just yet another webkit fork… and it isn’t even daily drivable.
So, that leaves me still with FireFox for the past 15 years nothing has really changed for me … extensions I was using before got rewrote as webextensions and I kept plugging on. Even flash player still works through Ruffle.rs .
I’ve used Dillo a bit in the past but using something that limited is only something I’d do in a retro computing sense. I do like the idea of Gemini though for an opt in simple version of the web…. I hope it gains momentum.