I’ve been using Brave on my phone for a couple of years now. Works great for me. Updates as regularly as I remember to do updates. It is a supported browser.
I can’t help you with the Brave rewards thing, I keep that shut off and the ad settings on “no ads at all”.
I will say though, that google did something in one of there updates for chromium that causes google adsense ads to be shown. The folks that make and support Brave are, in fact, the folks that let me know via something that came with an update earlier this year.
I don’t know if they are trying to figure out a way to work around this or if they just can’t or maybe aren’t allowed to or anything like that.
Pale Moon. It’s basically Firefox from before the Firefox folks ruined Firefox, except that unlike an old version of Firefox, Pale Moon is actually updated with security patches, bug fixes, etc.
Opera is a Chinese copycat of Chrome now, not the old browser it used to be.
It also may not have invented tabbed browsing; NetCaptor is probably to thank for that. I think Opera had a MDI window system back then, not really tabs. NetCaptor - Wikipedia
I use AVG anti-virus and internet security, and it comes with its own broswer, AVG Secure Browser, that has some security features built-in. It isn’t ideal, but it’s pretty good.
For the classics, I was using Firefox for a good many years and was totally happy with it.
Coo! That, I did not know. Thank’ee kindly! Anyway, it has a handful of minor flaws and drawbacks, but the security function is kind of nice. (Some helpful function keeps creating new “favorites” bookmarks for locations they think I should visit. I have to clean these out periodically. Not fond of such pushing.)
Also, some places get fussy about having data blocked. I can’t certify for unemployment benefits using it, as the CA EDD can’t talk to it properly. For that, I use Firefox.
I use Waterfox Classic–a fork of Firefox based off the old version before Version 57 where the introduced a new browsing engine and disabled all old add-ons. It lets me use a multi row bookmark bar which you unable to do in the new versions of Firefox.
I also use Avast Secure Browser–a fork of Chrome as well.
I have Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge installed on my various computers but I rarely use them.
Firefox for about 16 years. Still love it. Once in a while I’ll hit a website that just doesn’t seem to get along with FF and I’ll switch to Chrome to view it, where I’m always instantly reminded how much I hate Chrome’s interface.
I admit to being curious about Edge but I’m stubbornly refusing to give in to their increasingly obnoxious popup blurbs. I’ll check it out once they stop being so aggressively desperate sounding. If that ever happens.
I use Chrome(ium) in Windows, but it’s not like it’s my favorite. It’s that I was worried bad stuff was going to happen with Mozilla back when they switched over to Quantum, and I decided I’d at least check and see if I could make Chrome do what I want.
I’ve considered putting in the effort to switch back, but the recent news about Mozilla doing so poorly and their willingness to just give up on huge swaths of code makes me too wary of bothering, lest the browser not be around again. The one good thing about Chrome is that it doesn’t ever seem to make big changes, just little ones. The bad thing is that it listens less to its users.
I will continue using Firefox on Android and Linux, though. On Android, it allows you to run extensions, which I need, even if only one or two. And on Linux, it’s just better supported (as in, they do more work in Linux). Google seems to prefer to keep their focus on Windows, macOS, and their own OSes.
But I would not be surprised if Mozilla’s management pushes a Blink (Chromium) version of Firefox with how they’re firing people and stuff. And I don’t trust the spinoff browsers to be able to keep the extensions I need.
Chromium-based browsers use the extensions from Google’s Web Store exactly the same as Chrome does. They don’t have their own versions of extensions. If it will work on Chrome it will work on anything Chromium-based.
I was unclear. I was talking about maybe switching to Firefox, so I meant the spin-offs from that. And, by spin-off, I meant forks like Waterfox or Pale Moon. They aren’t using the same codebase anymore, and rely on using older extensions, or updating them.
That said, I wouldn’t consider the browsers you are describing spin-offs. Stuff like the newer Edge is just Chromium with a different coat of paint, same as Chrome. They’re all just variants. To become a spin off, they’d need to fork their code. And then there would be extensions which would stop working over time.
Sorry, I didn’t realise you were talking about Firefox spinoffs.
But Chromium variants are not just ‘a different coat of paint’. Chrome itself adds a lot of extra features to the Chromium base, and Edge and Opera are also based on Chromium, but different in significant ways from Chrome.
Chromium variants add extra and different features, extra user settings and options, different user interfaces, different approaches to memory usage and caching, etc. Just because the rendering engine and Javascript engine are the same doesn’t mean the browser is the same.
I used Chrome for a couple years then reluctantly switched to Firefox because Chrome was having too many security/glitch issues. Apparently malware has an easier time with Chrome than fox.
I’ve been using Waterfox for several years. It’s a stripped down version of Firefox without the bloat; very fast.
Used Pale Moon for a few years but switched away for reasons I don’t remember. Been dabbling with Brave some and I like it. Haven’t touched Google for years; it seems to me to represent all that’s wrong with the internet.