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Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by sellerie on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:43AM (#30719559)
People complain about firefox doing shady stuff and then use Brave lmao. Just leaving these here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecom...

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecom...

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by dangerface on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:21AM (#30720752)
The first bug is because of daylight savings the was also in chrome. People mistakenly thought it was to do with brave servers being down.

The second one is people trying to install plugins from the chrome web store, apparently it has to do this through brave servers. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable that when installing a plugin from your browser that your browser has to connect to a server to do so.

Trying to present bugs as some sort of malware is dishonest, the source code is open if it was really phoning home why not just link that code?

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by zeepzeep on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:50AM (#30719602)
> Steps to Reproduce

> 1. Open Brave

This is way too funny for me.

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by benibela on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:14AM (#30723327)
>High CPU usage

I have that problem all the time in Firefox

But probably I just opened too many tabs

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by buo on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:26PM (#30724992)
I'd suggest the Auto Tab Discard extension. It's wonderful.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by TheGoddessInari on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:46PM (#30726638)
I tend to open multiple thousands of tabs because Firefox lets me, and it hasn't been a cpu issue on desktop or Android.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by CRConrad on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:48PM (#30738637)
Eats battery like Hell on my Android phone.