Out of the box, brave is probably better, but if you do a bit of configuration, i think Firefox wins by quite a bit in terms of security and privacy, and a lot in terms of convenience and performance.
Conclusion Concerning Brave, Brave looks to have substantially lower benchmark scores than Edge. I'm interested as to why Brave is touted as being quicker and more efficient than Chrome, while it is not ( Brave utilize a much greater RAM and CPU than Edge and Firefox too). Additionally, Brave eats substantially more battery than Firefox as well!
I am an avid chrome user and I love chrome but I have recently come across brave and quote like it's idea and functionality. What are your guy's thoughts on it and is it safe (as in people claiming it makes money in malicious ways)? Thanks.
Just adding that Brave is open source, so people will notice any questionable behaviors or changes. Opera is closed source, so you have to trust they are doing what they say they are doing.
Brave > Firefox I know Firefox can be modified for privacy and performance. However, if an update comes, the modifications may or may not work as they did before. Then new modifications might become necessary. On the other hand, Brave has privacy and performance by default. So I don't need to mess with the settings and deal with any broken modification after an update. As for Firefox fork, you ...
Brave is on a mission to fix the web by giving users a safer, faster and more private browsing experience, while supporting content creators through a new attention-based rewards ecosystem.
Brave is better for privacy, but some of their business practices have been questioned in the past. Opera has most customization and abilities, as long as you don't want a home page / button. Opera, also has had some questionable business practices. Based on testing (I'm a dev and have to test our SaaS apps with all major browsers), Brave tends to load pages a bit faster and is a bit lighter ...
Mostly Brave got accused to being a non-privacy browser with trackers and other unsecure stuff. I just switched to Brave from Vivaldi so I was worried and wanted to investigate the claims, because what are my privacy steps worth if I use a browser that tracks me? I will only look at Brave not Firefox or other browsers.
