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On desktops I don't see any reason to use Brave, but on smartphones it's a different story. Advantages of Brave on mobile in comparison to Firefox: - Single p
by hawski 8y ago
On desktops I don't see any reason to use Brave, but on smartphones it's a different story.
Advantages of Brave on mobile in comparison to Firefox:
- Single package with add blocking and HTTPS upgrading
- Better handling of offline cache
- Those little PIP clouds to disambiguate a tap
- I always understand how to long press to show context menu instead of selecting
- I believe scrolling is smoother on Brave
- I prefer card/tab layout on Brave
- Less crashes
Advantages of Firefox over Brave on mobile:
- Same browser I use on desktop - helpful with Firefox account and it's FOSS
- I can disable JavaScript and images when I'm on severely limited connection like right now
- Extensions
- I like text search better
- Better location bar search
- Usable reader mode
Now saying all this I would like to have a pure HTML browser, at least for bad mobile connections. It would be lightinnig fast and would show me offline version first and upgrade to more recent version if needed or it was downloaded after all. It would be like a permanent reader mode. So my font, my colors, my line length, no obnoxious position:fixed bars. One of the things on my to-do list.
- edtechdev 8y agoUse Firefox Focus browser on mobile. It is more privacy focused than Firefox and other browsers, and blocks ads instead of replacing them with its own like the Brave browser does.
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoFirefox Focus isn't really designed to be a "long-term" browser, in my experience. My normal FF on Android has like 12 different tabs open at any given time, and I maintain logins on a few sites. Firefox Focus doesn't really intend for you to have more than one tab open at once (although it does support it), and its default functionality is to delete the browser history as soon as you close it. I use Focus for quick, one-time things: open a quick article from my news feed, login to pay my credit card bill, etc., and then trash it.
- idle_zealot 8y agoYes, Focus is specifically designed for use as a default browser to quickly and safely open links and perform one-off tasks. It's recommended that it be used alongside another browser for more long-term sessions and cases where you want history preserved.
- WA9ACE 8y agoI'd like to point out that Brave never has replaced ads on websites, only blocked them, and in the future will only replace ads on websites whose owner explicitly signed up to let Brave replace their ads. This comment from the Community Manager lays out reasonably well why they're using this model https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/8j4uiy/fud_from_an_outsider/dyyj532/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/8j4uiy/fud_from...