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For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 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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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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