I’ve been using Brave for the past three or so years but I do know that Linux/privacy enthusiasts tend to swear by Firefox. Wanted to get people’s thoughts on this topic to see if I should be making a potential switch. Thanks!

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla’s engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.

    From this page (which has links to Mozilla if you want to read more)

    • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I did not see that before.

      Other interesting thing is that about:config is disabled on mobile except maybe nightly. Wonder why?

      The other advantage of Brave is that it is more secure out of the box. From privacy point of view that should be better at blending in to the crowd depending on user base size. In Firefox I usually add an extension and configure it and some about:config settings. Somewhat minimal but probably quite unique.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Not sure about about:config, though it’s the kind of discussion that pops up in !privacyguides@lemmy.one so you might have better luck asking there.

        I never know what to think of Brave. They do seem to have some serious privacy tooling available, but they also seem to get up to so much dodgy behaviour when it comes to money that I don’t really trust them.