Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you?

Re:Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? –... by Steltek on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:38AM (#28746539)

I've given up on the built-in bookmarks in all browsers and even the New Tab page. I wrote up a single file HTML page and checked it into my dotfiles repos. Icons are short data urls of SVG with a hover drop down (like Reddit and various subreddits). I like that it's "self hosted" and not some 3rd party site.

I have hundreds of bookmarks, all neatly categorized, compared to the New Tab page's paltry 16 or whatever. I also get the exact same page in Firefox (personal), Chrome (work), or Firefox/Android.

It sounded silly at first but now I can't live without it.

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Re:Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? –... by ravenstine on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:57AM (#28746754)

Are you saying you have your new-tab page set to a `file://` URL that points to an HTML file? If so, that's a pretty excellent idea. :D

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Re:Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? –... by Steltek on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:37AM (#28747291)

Yes but a little more complicated than that. You need an add-on, as the old "homepage" preferences seem to have gone by the wayside or don't work as expected.

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Re:Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? –... by slightwinder on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:10AM (#28747702)

Isn't that awful to maintain?

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