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
    • Holeheadou92984@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      Well at least it is open source, I guess the best alternative for people who want a chromium based browser with sync feature

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 days ago

        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.

          • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
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            3 days ago

            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.

        • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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          3 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.