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I've been using Brave for the past three or so years but I do know that Linux/privacy enthusiasts tend to swear by Firefox. Wanted to get people's thoughts on this topic to see if I should be making a potential switch. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave isn't more private than Firefox but depending on the platform that Firefox is on, Firefox might be less secure than Brave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still waiting for Firefox Android to be secure enough for me to ditch Brave.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OOL, what's up with firefox android's app?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IIRC something along the lines of it not having proper site isolation, making it less secure.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

Firefox does have per site isolation and does not have proprietary libraries, unlike Chromium based browsers. Per site process isolation is experimental and is not that consequential, since Android apps are well sandboxed in the way OS runs fundamentally.

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