promotion, especially as a 'security focused' browser with 'uncommon' features.
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I tried out Firefox on my phone a year or two ago. I had a number of issues, including accessing secure pages for work. I have little doubt that it wasn't Firefox at fault so much as it was narrow testing by website developers, but the end result was problems for me regardless of who was at fault, so I switched back to Chrome.
I have Brave alongside my Librewolf installation because of Chromecast. Yes, II know, crazy to have Google shit in your house but it just works and I at least have TechnitiumDNS.
I got my dad to try Firefox and he said it drained his phone battery like no tomorrow, so now he uses brave because it doesn't
I've been using Firefox for years on my phone with no such problems, so I can't exactly verify what he's saying
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I have Firefox but gave Brave a shot too. Works fine for me. I'll use anything that gets around YouTube ads.
Try vivaldi. Much less fuckery than Brave
Firefox still doesn't have tab groups on mobile
You got downvoted but it is true, it doesn't while other browsers do, and block ads which is a nice plus.
Firefox offers extension support and that is a reason to forgive it a lot of lacks... But we shouldn't be conformist about the fact that the Android/iOS client needs a lot of work.
It's just weird that the post asks people why they use Brave over Firefox/Librewolf and I get downvoted for giving an honest answer.
If Firefox added tab groups for mobile I'd start the (unfortunately slow) transition over to a fork that respects privacy by default.
But unfortunately, Mozilla keeps insisting that it's "hard to make tab groups in a way that's intuitive and efficient for the end user" when Chromium already has that as an example. So I still use Brave, because I need my tab groups.
Ive browser hopped a bit, Im currently on brave because it has a good vertical tabs integration and works decently well. Having to use another browser because a page won't load correctly is infuriating to me. After reading the comments here, I'd like to switch. I'm guessing Firefox is my best option huh?
I was browser hopping a bunch lately. Stayed on Zen for a while but setting it up for multiple devices was a pain and there was always a new update that broke a mod, so I kept looking. Somehow I landed on edge, mostly due to how it did vertical tabs. But then I recently found out that standard Firefox pretty much does them just like that now, so I'm on that now.
Edit: changed some words that were incorrectly autocorrected
I was also on edge for a while exclusively for the vertical tabs, initially it was actually a decent experience if you stripped out bing. Now I'm on brave because it's fine and it has good compatibility.
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I use FF on android, but on my (ancient) desktop, it just runs like shit, while any of the chromium variants "just work".