Zorin OS 17.3 replaced the default Browser from Firefox(Old) to Brave(New).
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That's a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
wrote 7 days ago last edited byWhile the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
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Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.
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While the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byYou could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.
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While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byDoesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
wrote 7 days ago last edited byChromium is more secure, so if you add privacy tweaks, it is arguably better
(Btw I use Firefox)
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with things like uBlock pre-installed
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
wrote 7 days ago last edited byCrypto scam browser is never a better evil...
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Wow, never recommending spring to anyone again.
Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move. -
You could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.
wrote 7 days ago last edited bySomething ive actually wondered is if firefox is hurting for money so bad why doesnt it allow a toggle where a user can willingly just turn every purchase via the browser into a firefox affiliate link? If the user is approving it and its not a shady forced thing i see no issue with it, and it would generate plenty of revenue without needing to be beholden to ad companies or google. It'd be like allowing users to donate, without actually costing them any extra money, everytime they make an online purchase.
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Doesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
wrote 7 days ago last edited byThat is the default behaviour, but it's pretty trivial to change. Also, I'd imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with things like uBlock pre-installed
wrote 7 days ago last edited byProbably someone's pet project
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While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byWhat's wrong with Brave?
- Based on Chromium so good web support
- Decent privacy
- Built-in adblock
- Easy to customize
- Open Source
It's the browser I've chosen to use after getting fed up w/ Gecko's terrible web compatibility these days (coming from Librewolf).
What's wrong with it? How is it evil?
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Doesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
wrote 7 days ago last edited byIt has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal
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The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byIt is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
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What's wrong with Brave?
- Based on Chromium so good web support
- Decent privacy
- Built-in adblock
- Easy to customize
- Open Source
It's the browser I've chosen to use after getting fed up w/ Gecko's terrible web compatibility these days (coming from Librewolf).
What's wrong with it? How is it evil?
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It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
wrote 7 days ago last edited by...Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
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It has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal
wrote 7 days ago last edited byOk but like, that makes a terrible default for Zorin OS users. They're gonna be confused and think it's some hot garbage
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While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byAs a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.
Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.