Hacker News Reader

Comment by huntermeyer | Hacker News Reader

Brave (https://brave.com/download/) is a good alternative too. It doesn't have the terrible UX (IMHO) that Firefox has. But it is built with Chromium (TMK).

View on HN

I use Brave as my daily driver, but this trickled down into Brave as well this morning. I was confused for a minute what I had done with a subdomain on one of my sites, and then got very frustrated when I realized the Chromium team had put this back in place. A few #omnibox... tweaks later and I have it back, but it is certainly annoying.

This is why forking Chromium is not a solution. Unless a team is committed to maintaining that fork, eventually they'll be forced to merge in any of the changes that Google wants to push.

The only way a Chromium fork works is if the team is willing to stop merging after they fork and take over development themselves.

> This is why forking Chromium is not a solution

Brave isn't a fork, though, it's a downstream consumer of Chromium.

> The only way a Chromium fork works is if the team is willing to stop merging after they fork and take over development themselves.

I mean, that's what a fork is, so yeah?

I don't think Brave demonstrates much about that situation.

Had issues using Brave.

Tried to pay off my contract & upgrade my phone on O2 UK's (mobile network operator) website.

Card transactions failed multiple times because of a blocked popup.

Ended up having to wait a week for the pending transactions to be released (£600 worth. Rang up Monzo, my bank, and they'd tell me I'd get the money released in pending state the next week which was true!).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com