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For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave

What Librewolf can do (but Brave can’t):

  • Be run in a portable form
  • Duplicate / manage user profiles easily
  • Use a self‑hosted sync server
  • Install most browser plugins on mobile (e.g. Iceraven)
  • Use containers to separate cookies
  • Store browser history permanently

What Brave can do (but Librewolf can’t):

  • Provide a better mobile user experience, including:
    • smoother animations
    • quick switching between tabs (tab icon feature)
  • Translate web pages on mobile devices
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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not necessarily. With the awful things about Brave, if I need a chromium based browser I’ll absolutely go non-OSS and use Vivaldi. It’s a million miles better, and it’s not worth supporting Brave just to say you’re still using an open source browser.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

As a Vivaldi user, I found that no other browser works as well for me, as Vivaldi does. I can't imagine life without browser workspaces, sync, vertical tabs on the desktop, and a mobile tab bar at the bottom.

The closest alternative is either Floorp or Zen, with mobile Firefox and Sync, but I found Vivaldi is just smoother and a better and more well-integrated user experience for me.

[–] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I might be wrong, but search results gives "Vivaldi is not entirely open source"

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s not open source. I was saying, if you must use chrome based browsers, suck it up and use non-OSS, because Brave is just awful in so many ways.

sorry, non open source is not acceptable in my view