Web browser wars

[Fagnacious D]

Midas WWW for me!

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I used to use that Wii browser for awhile. It was neat browsing the 'nets on CRT TV, but one cannot save anything. It fills up the RAM without emptying the more one browses, until one gets out of memory errors, and then one has to quit and reload. Now, with how rapidly websites are changing, the Wii browser is probably almost completely useless.

I've used Firefox since it first came out, though nowadays you have to customize the crap out of it to remove a bunch of soy BS. Before Firefox I used Mozilla, then Netscape 6 and 7 before that. And before all of that I used Internet Explorer, but abandoned that after getting rather annoyed with how vulnerable to scumware and advertising it was.

I used the Wii for internet browsing back in the day because the only other option was a computer from the late 90's. That piece of shit was barely able to run Zoo Tycoon 2 with a shitty GPU someone put in.

 

[X del]

Is Firefox Developer edition better for privacy than Brave? Yes, I know Tor is best for privacy, but I value faster browsing more.

 

[Magicat]

Is Firefox Developer edition better for privacy than Brave? Yes, I know Tor is best for privacy, but I value faster browsing more.

Firefox anything isn't good for privacy anymore. A properly maintained fork is usually better. Popular one is LibreWolf, though I've never used it.

I don't know about Brave. People that jumped on that bandwagon came back to LibreWolf when they got sick of something or the other. (I think Joshua mentioned it on stream once)

 

[innocent jogger]

I use Iceweasel on a Knoppix 7 flash drive

 

[Post Poster]

LibreWolf, Firefox and brave browser.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Is Firefox Developer edition better for privacy than Brave? Yes, I know Tor is best for privacy, but I value faster browsing more.

Developer edition is basically a beta version of Firefox with some more experimental dev tools. It's no better than mainline Firefox which is out of the box a total shitfest, though Brave isn't exactly great either. The only reason I stick with Firefox (and its derivatives) is that in spite of its many shortcomings and awful out of the box experience, you can basically unfuck it within like 5 minutes by just tweaking the settings and about:config.

 

[Neddit's Rigger]

Is Firefox Developer edition better for privacy than Brave? Yes, I know Tor is best for privacy, but I value faster browsing more.

Vanilla Firefox doesn't even pass the public and open source fingerprinting tests, it is useless against state of the art fingerprinting. I have not tested Brave yet but you can try with CreepJS.