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I like the concept of Brave browser, but the severe lack of extensions make it a nonstarter. Loading Chrome extensions into Brave looks complex to the extent where I'd rather just load up Chrome or Firefox.

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You're probably talking about their electron version. They're in the process of switching to their chromium fork, where you should be able to just run all chrome extensions no problem.

See: https://brave.com/new-brave-browser-release-available-for-ge...

Brave is now based on Chromium. You can install extensions from the Chrome web store just as you would in Chrome.

To me, Brave is just Chrome without all the Google stuff and a built-in ad-blocker. It's fantastic.

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