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Brave is really good and always surprising me with features while largely staying lean and out of my way. They recently added a chatbot that runs locally they

by trts 3y ago

Brave is really good and always surprising me with features while largely staying lean and out of my way. They recently added a chatbot that runs locally they call Leo based on llama2. It's pretty impressive that you can perform LLM tasks on the current page without the use of any 3rd party service. And of course you can pay them for the souped up version. https://brave.com/leo-release/ https://brave.com/leo-release/ Feels like I am alone in thinking the crypto features of Brave are cool. And not because I think that industry generally isn't full of slime. But micropayments for content has been a good, latent idea for a generation, and here they've simply built it as a default feature. I still use FF and Brave equally because of my experience with the first browser wars and my mistrust of Chrome, having become the new IE.

edgan 3y ago
I have tried Brave multiple times. I find its desktop version as bad or worse than Firefox for things not working or bugginess. I have used Brave more on Android. I have bounced between Firefox, Brave, and custom builds of Chromium for years. I am currently on Firefox.
- behnamoh 3y ago
  Brave opens 99.9% of websites for me and I'm using "Aggressive" mode.
nzrf 3y ago
This also where I landed with Brave as it seems to be working great for all of devices. Runs smoothly and I don’t really have a problem full with many sites on aggressive mode. I’ve had the sync’ing feature go flaky a few times, but over all good experience. My big gripe with FF honestly is the lack for PWA ( progressive web apps) If they resurrect that effort I’d give it a shot. I’m not really interested in running another browser for that feature. Also the brave privacy settings are remarkably better “by default” across all my devices. I’m sure Firefox can be configured to be hardened I just have other ways I’d like to spend my time. Heck I’d even pay for better option for all my devices.

by trts 3y ago

edgan 3y ago

I have tried Brave multiple times. I find its desktop version as bad or worse than Firefox for things not working or bugginess. I have used Brave more on Android. I have bounced between Firefox, Brave, and custom builds of Chromium for years. I am currently on Firefox.

behnamoh 3y ago
Brave opens 99.9% of websites for me and I'm using "Aggressive" mode.

nzrf 3y ago

This also where I landed with Brave as it seems to be working great for all of devices. Runs smoothly and I don’t really have a problem full with many sites on aggressive mode. I’ve had the sync’ing feature go flaky a few times, but over all good experience. My big gripe with FF honestly is the lack for PWA ( progressive web apps) If they resurrect that effort I’d give it a shot. I’m not really interested in running another browser for that feature. Also the brave privacy settings are remarkably better “by default” across all my devices. I’m sure Firefox can be configured to be hardened I just have other ways I’d like to spend my time. Heck I’d even pay for better option for all my devices.