The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by milankragujevic on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:44PM (#23442492)

I gave it a try tens of times, and continue trying to switch every major release, but keep going back. Too many things are just not right, and can't be fixed for me because I am not ALL of the users + not even the most vocal part of the user base + some things are just meant to be like that in Firefox and that's their "thing" that I don't like. It's pointless to list it here, but I really do continuously try it in good faith and hope to switch someday.

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by andai on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:57PM (#23443094)

Have you written about your experience with Firefox somewhere else? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

I just wrote another comment here about its performance, about how I want it to succeed, how I donate to Mozilla, and yet still use a Chromium-based browser due to the performance issues.

At this point (I mean, they've literally invented a new programming language to make it faster, and it's still slow) I think the only thing left to do is to learn C++ and Rust and fix it myself...

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by Ayesh on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:36PM (#23443992)

I have the feeling that Firefox development is a bit distanced from the real users.

It's bugzilla is quite unfriendly, and pretty much everything users wish for is already there, in a ticket that is several years old with no action taken.

An then, the next Firefox version comes with some crappy UX decision made, and it is not configurable. /r/Firefox comes up with _yet another_ userChrome.css tweak to revert it.

And the cycle continues as the user base grows thin. I wonder why.

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