Article on the State of Browsers

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There is always a question of which is the “best”, which is the “fastest”, which is the more “secure” … and all of those things require understanding of the environment you are in. This article - I like - because its talking about the browser itself. Who is based on what - where that is going. A lot of people do not like Firefox because of x, y and z, yet promote Opera. Some absolutely hate Edge but like Chrome. So, for those who dont know what comes from where - just a good quick read on browsers.

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Great article. Funny, I have used Brave as my daily driver for a few years and Firefox as my alternative. I just wished firefox loaded a bit faster.

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I think it depends on your system. I use Brave as my main browser - and it does hand all the tabs I have open better but Firefox starts faster and runs faster on my system. A few updates back, FF didnt run as fast as it does now. On (one) my laptop where its older, only 8gb of ram, slower cpu - ff starts faster but overall they run the same. But - Brave uses memory much better when I find myself with several instances of browser open and 5 to 20 tabs open each (depending on what Im doing).

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So are you saying that when you open up Brave it populates previous open tabs? Or are you saying is operates better with multiple tabs open?

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I close all tabs on either browser to onetab - usually - so its rare that Im opening straight into all the tabs. FF starts faster for me than Brave and FF opens tabs faster but in ongoing use - Brave uses the memory much better. FF has and will crash on me but Brave - it has but its much more rare.

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Now I get it. Totally understand and agree, thanks.

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Brave is absolutely where it’s at for a multitude of reasons.

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I had to reply to the article.

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I am not able to read this article. All I get is a bunch of gobbledygook or “File not found”. Very frustrating.

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My $.02
My current choices:

  1. Brave or TOR depending on site and VPN restrictions
  2. Firefox

After reading this article I will take a deeper look at TOR and perhaps start using the Fox more often. The only reason I stopped before was compatibility issues at work. Which I am no longer concerned with :slight_smile:

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