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Anecdotal - Switched from Chrome => Brave. So much faster and no more fan freakouts. Love it.

• lmedinas 8y ago
  If someone from the Brave Team can explain why Brave is "so much faster" than Chrome i would like to be interested. Chrome + ublock wouldn't archive similar results ?
  • jclay 8y ago
    Correct. IIRC,Cosmetic adblocking is also not possible without adding uBlock. I guess one advantage with their approach is that they’re doing their network filtering “closer to the metal” from what i’ve seen from a recent look at their codebase. If they’re able to block requests by bypassing the extensions API, it’s likely faster. They can probably also achieve some parallelism here since requests are done in multiple processes. If you can simply hook in and block a site, you likely eliminate several layers of IPC messages to the extension.
• bad_user 8y ago
  That’s probably just placebo since Brave is built on top of Chromium.
  • ummonk 8y ago
    The adblock probably blocks bloated ad scripts that slow down the browser and use up power.
    • bad_user 8y ago
      I doubt that the parent is talking about the out of the box experience. Installing uBlock Origin takes less effort than installing Brave and probably does a better job at blocking ads than Brave, as it is the most aggressive ad-blocking engine available right now.
  • mathnmusic 8y ago
    Brave blocks both ads and 3rd party cookies by default. That could count for a lot.