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Anyone using Brave? Would love to hear your impressions.

Here.

I was a huge Firefox fan, but having 50+ tabs open made the browser unusable - even the latest versions. I then switched reluctantly to Chrome, but always hated the UI.

Having downloaded Brave, it was love on first sight, looks good, works good, blocks ads. I very much miss all the Firefox extensions, I hope a lot will get ported eventually.

Oh, and Mozilla? You need to reboot your company/non-profit. I don't know what goes wrong there, but all the projects I found interesting got stopped (Persona), and the browser is no longer really great. It just /feels/ clunky.

> I was a huge Firefox fan, but having 50+ tabs open made the browser unusable - even the latest versions. I then switched reluctantly to Chrome, but always hated the UI.

Really? I haven't had any such problem with Firefox in years, and I tend to browser with a few hundred tabs open. What platform are you using?

> Oh, and Mozilla? You need to reboot your company/non-profit. I don't know what goes wrong there, but all the projects I found interesting got stopped (Persona), and the browser is no longer really great.

The process is actually very simple: if nobody uses it, it gets stopped :)

> It just /feels/ clunky.

Are you talking about versions more recent than 57? Because the performance boost during the last year has been huge.

>Really? I haven't had any such problem with Firefox in years, and I tend to browser with a few hundred tabs open. What platform are you using?

Windows at work and Macos/Linux at home. The situation has gotten better since browser extensions that save and restore all tabs reliably don't work with FF anymore. Now the browser usually forgets about 50% of my open tabs when I restart it...

Maybe this will help you out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

A must have extension if you tend to keep a lot of tabs open.

It's my default Android browser because you can set it to block scripts and adverts by default and yet the option to trivially allow scripts in a site is a single click away.

It's so good at this I've uninstalled multiple apps (especially news and weather ones) and have started saving links to web pages instead and the whole experience is better (because blocking adverts and tracking in apps is a real pain).

can you use it also as webview browser?

I do not believe that you can do that, but I've largely stopped using apps that contain adverts so to me this is not an angle I worry about so much (plus I use NetGuard so in app tracking I was already limiting).

It's my default browser, apart from a few quircks, I love the speed of it, especially on my older android phone

I still switch to chrome when I'm working, because the developer tools are better in chrome (debugger, integration of lighthouse ect..)

You can try Kiwi or Bromite as well. Brave lags sometimes very much when you have long pages to scroll.

It's been my default browser on MacOS for about a month. I signed up for BAT payments about a week ago.

For the most part, it's just another browser.

Pros: + I can disable Javascript per-site and reload the page in two clicks. I think that's possible with FFox or Chrome extensions, but it's built in to Brave.

+ UI looks cleaner.

Cons: - A few videos have refused to play. (Can't characterize that yet.)

- Reopening a closed tab only opens the last page on that tab, not the page history. I.e., the back button doesn't work.

- I don't know when, which or how publishers will get paid in BAT.

- I don't know how hard or expensive it will be to buy more BAT when my free ones are gone. Apparently I will have to open an account at a cryptocurrency exchange? Yuck!

Been using it for two months now.

Pros:

+ Useful info on how many ads are blocked

+ Tor is the really useful for private mode

+ Metrics on hours per websites is cool info too

Cons:

+ Importing bookmarks/passwords from FF didn't worked

+ Sometimes it blocks, only keys work, not the mouse scrolling

+ Pressing X on the last tab sometimes doesn't work

I’ve used it somewhat occasionally, and to me it seemed like Chrome as far as memory usage and sluggishness with multiple tabs and windows are concerned. But I like the fact that it comes with a built-in ad blocker, and avoids contacting Google (unlike Chrome). This announcement says it should perform better, and that’s something I’d like to try out and see.

If you were frustrated by the recent “signing in” changes and the backtracking of that in Chrome, you should try Firefox and Brave.

Yes, on IOS.

Love it for casual browsing (I use the anonimity by default) and am happy to be greeted by the "Hey you are a first time visitor of our site, please accept the cookies" every single time I visit a site (yes, I close the browser after browsing).

I like the mostly adfree experience.

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