Hot Take Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance

[Victor M]

What made you change Fedora?

I am still using Fedora on my main machine. Ubuntu is on my other test machine.

 

[stonjean633]

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To get that Medal of Honor, you need to be the BRAVEST

 

[Victor M]

I am generally not concerned with minute differences in performance. RAM meh I have 16 GB and I generally only open less than 5 apps. Idle RAM means I am not fully utilizing the machine. and means I have Over Paid for capacity. CPU meh unless I can SEE the performance degradation then I don't care. My CPU is an i7 2016, still fast enough. And I am on Linux, which I gather does not tax the CPU as much as Windows.

 

[Parkinsond]

I am generally not concerned with minute differences in performance. RAM meh I have 16 GB and I generally only open less than 5 apps. Idle RAM means I am not fully utilizing the machine. and means I have Over Paid for capacity. CPU meh unless I can SEE the performance degradation then I don't care. My CPU is an i7 2016, still fast enough. And I am on Linux, which I gather does not tax the CPU as much as Windows.

The only concern about Brave was it is higher than average disk writes, but I think it was fixed lately.

 

[Marko :)]

It can be the best and fastest browser ever, that doesn't change the fact it's also shady as well with pages full of controversies. I only use it on Android because currently there isn't better alternative that blocks ads. If there was, I wouldn't use it.

 

[Jonny Quest]

If and when Brave can get their Containers to work as good, as seamlessly as FF, then I would consider switching back. Until then, I'll stick with FF.

 

[lokamoka820]

If and when Brave can get their Containers to work as good, as seamlessly as FF, then I would consider switching back. Until then, I'll stick with FF.

I haven't tried Brave containers yet. Are they that bad? They worked perfectly in Firefox.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

If I can't see a difference in speed with my eyeballs then to me, it doesn't exist.

 

[Jonny Quest]

I haven't tried Brave containers yet. Are they that bad? They worked perfectly in Firefox.

You have to manually work with it, go to the website then right click the tab to open it in a container. With FF, we get the initial notification that we want to allow a site in the container and tick the box and it remembers it every time we go to the site. Let alone the toolbar, extension icon options FF has, that Brave doesn't. I don't know how, or became frustrated with Brave as far as manually entering sites somewhere in it's settings, or having to click the tab site to "open in"?

 

[Parkinsond]

If I can't see a difference in speed with my eyeballs then to me, it doesn't exist.

Until I see my PC infected with my eyes, AV test results do not exist

 

[Marko :)]

If and when Brave can get their Containers to work as good, as seamlessly as FF, then I would consider switching back. Until then, I'll stick with FF.

You're using Firefox for more than a month, if I'm not mistaken. How do you like it in general compared to Brave that you used previously? Have you encountered any websites not working in it?

If I can't see a difference in speed with my eyeballs then to me, it doesn't exist.

I'm still trying to figure out why is Firefox way faster than Brave on my laptop, despite getting lower results in those web benchmark tests.

 

[cartaphilus]

It is now my default web browser following extensive testing.

Call me a weird duck but I am still totally on the fence in trusting Brave. I find it too good to be true; if it's free you are the product.

 

[n8chavez]

I like CatsXP, which is just a brave fork with a lot more features.

 

[Parkinsond]

I like CatsXP, which is just a brave fork with a lot more features.

Chinese clone

 

[n8chavez]

So? Just because something is Chinese doesn't inherently make it bad. Hasleo is Chinese, and yet Hasleo backup suite is awesome.

 

[Parkinsond]

So? Just because something is Chinese doesn't inherently make it bad. Hasleo is Chinese, and yet Hasleo backup suite is awesome.

WPS and Foxit with vulnerabilities; malicious behavior of WPS by silently inserting context menu entries and changing defaults; not to mention data collection.

 

[Jonny Quest]

You're using Firefox for more than a month, if I'm not mistaken. How do you like it in general compared to Brave that you used previously? Have you encountered any websites not working in it?

I'm still trying to figure out why is Firefox way faster than Brave on my laptop, despite getting lower results in those web benchmark tests.

Very pleased with Firefox, I haven't missed Brave yet, for these reasons. The blow-away Containers, finding out how easy it was to get the cursor past, to the right of a emoticon on this forum, the customization ability, and replacing Dark Reader with Dark Background Light text which is more efficient, uses less memory and the pages load a little quicker.

Let alone it's an "officially" supported browser by F-Secure. I really haven't missed Brave to the point of ditching or wanting to quit using Firefox. On Windows, it is my default browser.

 

[TairikuOkami]

So? Just because something is Chinese doesn't inherently make it bad.

US government bans it's employees to use CN/RU and other "enemy" software or hardware like Huawei.
There is nothing bad about it, I would never use US/EU software willingly for privacy and security reasons.
It is like being a vegan or a carnivore, you either love it or hate it. At least we still have an option to choose.

 

[lokamoka820]

You have to manually work with it, go to the website then right click the tab to open it in a container. With FF, we get the initial notification that we want to allow a site in the container and tick the box and it remembers it every time we go to the site. Let alone the toolbar, extension icon options FF has, that Brave doesn't. I don't know how, or became frustrated with Brave as far as manually entering sites somewhere in it's settings, or having to click the tab site to "open in"?

If this is the issue, I can adapt to it. I had thought that Brave leaked cookies between containers, given its history of controversies.

Call me a weird duck but I am still totally on the fence in trusting Brave. I find it too good to be true; if it's free you are the product.

I don't want to trust Brave, but all other browsers have their own issues, so it seems the perfect browser doesn't exist yet.

 

[Marko :)]

Very pleased with Firefox, I haven't missed Brave yet, for these reasons. The blow-away Containers, finding out how easy it was to get the cursor past, to the right of a emoticon on this forum, the customization ability, and replacing Dark Reader with Dark Background Light text which is more efficient, uses less memory and the pages load a little quicker.

Let alone it's an "officially" supported browser by F-Secure. I really haven't missed Brave to the point of ditching or wanting to quit using Firefox. On Windows, it is my default browser.

Well, I'm glad to hear that!

I don't want to trust Brave, but all other browsers have their own issues, so it seems the perfect browser doesn't exist yet.

Depends what you want and need from the browser really. Firefox is perfect browser for me because it ticks all the boxes for me. I don't miss anything from Chromium browsers at all.