I’m choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I’m considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled “extension” like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?

Edit: some people are mentioning brave’s cryptocurrency. I don’t want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.

  • Ducky 🇬🇧🦆@gearheads.social
    102·
    11 months ago

    “You can turn off X” is not a good enough excuse.

    Once upon a time, I used to daily Edge when it was a pretty decent browser. But once it was handed over to the Bing team who started jerry-rigging garbage into it that was it for me. You could also “turn a lot of it off”, but that doesn’t help when new less-than-ideal features are introduced or setting it up on a new PC.

    • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      The default homepage on Edge alone is enough to make me never use Edge willingly.

      I don’t know what that Bing/MSN abomination is but it’s reprehensible. It’s the most clickbait tabloid garbage I’ve ever seen. The fact that a company that makes hand over fist on enterprise is willing to sully their new browser with that fucking page makes me lose so much faith in humanity.

      I know it’s an easily changed setting but there’s millions and millions of people that won’t change it at home or at work being exposed to that garbage.

      • Sinnerman@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        I have to use Edge at work, and turned off all the BS. But Microsoft keeps coming up with new BS that they enable by default so every so often I have to waste time figuring out how to turn it off.

      • Ducky 🇬🇧🦆@gearheads.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        Actually know a few ex-Edge developers personally and it kills them seeing what Edge has now become. Opening it for the first time is just a tragic mess. It peaked around the Linux release and then slowly went downhill from there 😔

        Shame.