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Does anyone use Brave on the desktop? I thought Brave was only relevant on mobile, since mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions, and for some reason unknown to me people don't want to just use Firefox there.

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> for some reason unknown to me people don't want to just use Firefox there.

Initial loading of webpages on Android Firefox is very slow compared to Chromium browsers.

Not in the new versions. Firefox Beta has a new rendering engine that is as fast as Chrome. Soon they should release it into the stable, but beta has never given me any issues.

I use it on desktop primarily and have earned ~$40usd with the rewards program so far. You can import your Chrome account and use chrome extensions in Brave, it's basically a faster version of Chrome to me.

You earned that in how long?

Since late last year when I activated Brave Rewards (make sure to opt-out of auto-contributions to keep your BAT)

Unless something's changed recently, Brave mobile doesn't support extensions either.

No, but Brave has adblocking built in.

Kiwi Browser does support extensions. It's what I use.

Brave starting this month will support extensions on mobile.

https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-android-dev-wou...

https://twitter.com/SergZh_/status/1262885174590791682

Good info, thanks for the links.

Firefox Beta works great and is as snappy as chrome and has built in ad blocking (but you have to turn it fully on on your own). I use it and it works great. Give it a try if this situation is weening you off brave.

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