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For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave

What Librewolf can do (but Brave can’t):

  • Be run in a portable form
  • Duplicate / manage user profiles easily
  • Use a self‑hosted sync server
  • Install most browser plugins on mobile (e.g. Iceraven)
  • Use containers to separate cookies
  • Store browser history permanently

What Brave can do (but Librewolf can’t):

  • Provide a better mobile user experience, including:
    • smoother animations
    • quick switching between tabs (tab icon feature)
  • Translate web pages on mobile devices
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Brave is being forced to use Googles version of Manifest 3 meaning ad blockers and anti trackers are crippled in favour of advertisers and Googles ad business. Brave will be including 4 manifest 2 extensions in its backend but that's it. They're stuck because Google decided to screw over the entire Chrome based ecosystem.

Mozilla is implementing Manifest 3 differently so the original techniques for adblocking and privacy still work.

So the only choice is Librewolf. Sacrificing privacy and security for smoother animations and Web translation of pages is not worth it.

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

could you elaborate on the consequences of removing manifest 2? Does it mean Ublock Origin will be unavailable in Brave in the future?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

don't use brave for anything; brave is a pro crypto ad infested slop owned by a homophobic bigot

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well at least it is open source, I guess the best alternative for people who want a chromium based browser with sync feature

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. With the awful things about Brave, if I need a chromium based browser I’ll absolutely go non-OSS and use Vivaldi. It’s a million miles better, and it’s not worth supporting Brave just to say you’re still using an open source browser.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

As a Vivaldi user, I found that no other browser works as well for me, as Vivaldi does. I can't imagine life without browser workspaces, sync, vertical tabs on the desktop, and a mobile tab bar at the bottom.

The closest alternative is either Floorp or Zen, with mobile Firefox and Sync, but I found Vivaldi is just smoother and a better and more well-integrated user experience for me.

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I might be wrong, but search results gives "Vivaldi is not entirely open source"

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s not open source. I was saying, if you must use chrome based browsers, suck it up and use non-OSS, because Brave is just awful in so many ways.

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

sorry, non open source is not acceptable in my view

[–] artiman@piefed.social 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

TLDR: use librewolf and ironfox on mobile I do not trust a for-profit company with something as important as my fucking browser https://redlib.tiekoetter.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Wow, what a list of achievements!

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IronFox is closer to LibreWolf on mobile then IceRaven.

Both IronFox and IceRaven have extension support :)

[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does LibreWolf come with an adblocker as good as brave and can I play YouTube videos while not having my screen on without paying for YT premium?

[–] Sou_Puro_Osso@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 days ago

i think you can just install ublock origin, it's the best adblocker i know

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Brave also offers a few additional, very valuable things:

  • the only app that reflects fingerprinting protection in PrivacyBadger, in my experience
  • works on most webpages
  • selective use of first-party cookies, per site.
[–] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Any oppinions regarding librewolf vs ironfox?

[–] artiman@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

ironfox is for mobile librewolf has no mobile version