While I may be the only one around here to not know this, but I didn't realize Brave was OSS all the way through. That's great. I used FF for 19 years and switc

While I may be the only one around here to not know this, but I didn't realize Brave was OSS all the way through. That's great. I used FF for 19 years and switched to Edge fulltime in August ('21), and never looked back as each browser has its strengths and weaknesses. In the end, other than me being upset with feature removal in FF, I found Edge objectively comes out on top for me. Vivaldi always seemed to hold the most promise but was buggy for me and still missing strong iOS integration that the competition has in place. Having used FF for so long, I was ready to go to a larger provider. So mainly, MS, Apple, or Google. Native browsers have big advantages so resisting those no longer made sense if I'm making a switch. But Brave in my testing, did not completely convince me. Reviewing my testing notes- Brave- no dedicated search bar option (important for privacy / prefetching and not having to continually retype your search query). Didn't get to mobile support and crossplatform sync. No dedicated extension store. Of course, I had to give up on my dedicated search bar requirement, because FF's has been gimped by Mozilla, and Vivaldi had other unrelated usability flaws. So Edge it has been, and being completely honest, I've been thrilled with it. There's plenty other good here to overlook that and I haven't missed it as much as I thought I would. All that said, I'm now going to keep Brave in mind, moving it up a notch. I always liked Eich which doesn't hurt. I don't fear a Chromium world, and never used FF because it wasn't, in fact I mostly resented it. I just don't see eye to eye with the anti-Blink crowd. I think Firefox should've morphed into Brave, rather than be a separate project. A Brave that has Vivaldi's feature set would be perfect. Only thing missing then is major vendor support, and it'll always be non-native on all platforms, but at that point it could be overlooked. For Firefox to fight its way back will require more than anti-Blink monoculture advocates supporting it. Blink has become the same as the USD, and isn't to be feared. For me, that's like saying you're resisting using the US Dollar because you don't want monoculture. Yet look at how much you can do with the USD. It enables quite a bit, embracing it just enables you to get other things done with less resistance. Users benefit. More important missions are at play. Like perhaps privacy, transparency, both things that Brave clearly focuses on. Or whatever one's chosen priorities are. I legitimately love MS Edge, and I always keep Tor installed for the best privacy, but Brave is now my #2 pick for a daily driver and will be advocating for it for those that don't want to use their native browser.