I would recommend it. Firefox + uBlock Origin + NextDNS is an awesome experience. I keep NoScript mostly off but occasionally enable.

I have uBlock origin on brave so that’s moot, but I don’t use nextDNS. Is there a reason to use it when I’ve already got brave/uBlock killing most ads and trackers? (I also use proton VPN, not that it’s quite as relevant but figured I’d throw it out there).

We'll see what Brave can do to work around it, but chances are that content blockers are going to be handicapped when Manifest v3 is fully implemented.

Firefox will have no such problem, as Mozilla has specifically committed to keeping the necessary features.

Appreciate the insight!

Just to add to this, even before the upcoming Manifest V3 switchover, Firefox's uBlock Origin implementation is already better than Chrome's.

Personally I still use NextDNS to help me kill ads on mobile, and also keep a tighter leash on my various IoT devices. You can block more than just ads with it and it also gives you interesting data, hard to beat for less than the price of a cup of coffee each month.

So I’m an usual user here - I’m tech savvy compared to most people (film/television background and just a general nerd) but I am a Luddite compared to y’all around here. I imagine it’s not hard to set up, but what does it give me that ad guard + proton + brave (mobile) and proton + brave w/ uBlock origin (Mac) don’t?

Yeah its super easy to set up, but the biggest reason you would want to use it in addition to other adblocking stuff is that it works outside of browsers - you can block telemetry from your smart lights, you can stop a random app on your phone from showing you ads etc etc.

It does in theory also help block some malicious sites so you do get a bit of added security in that way. That can also be helpful if you have kids - block sites you don't want them on etc.

Personally I've also found their servers to be reasonably performant, no issues with query response times or anything like that.

Appreciate it! I’m going to get it all set up tomorrow.

Why would you need NoScript if you're already using uBO?

Security mainly - a site I do not trust

My point is you can block JS on uBO.

Depends what you care about. I think there are two main reasons to use Firefox over Chrome:

- better privacy protections

- not wanting to leave web standards entirely to Google/Apple (for-profit corps)

Brave attempts to address the first, but does little about the second as it uses Blink (i.e. Chrome's engine). Personally, I care a lot more about the second.

IMO Firefox with a few extensions is much better than brave for the first.

> I’ve been on brave for about 2 years now and all I see people talk about is Firefox. Should I swap?

They’re not wives, you can have more than one.

I have news about some people's approach to wives.

It’s far more conducive for the way I work to stick to one browser for the most part. You do you.

Same situation. I switched to Brave a couple of years ago (from Firefox) and I occasionally check in on Firefox to see if I should switch back. I haven't seen a reason yet. Things like full screen support in YouTube sees a bit janky still. I like where Brave is going with getting rid of cookie consent and other annoyances without extensions.

> I like where Brave is going with getting rid of cookie consent and other annoyances without extensions.

Firefox is supposed to get that too. Believe it's in Nightly already.

I use Brave and Firefox primarily on my Linux computers (and Safari on MacBook for battery reasons already mentioned). I just switch between them for different purposes. Usually Brave for Gmail or Google Docs, and Firefox if I need some extension not available in Brave (Firefox still seems to have more robust extension capability).

Do you care about vertical tabs? (if not, you must not have many tabs open at once) If so, your choices are: Opera, Edge or Firefox with one of two extensions (I use Sidebery).

Or Vivaldi natively.

Brave is adding vertical tabs. It's currently available via flag on Nightly and Dev. Hope they add nested tabs also!

Thanks for that info! I think nested tab are lame as it wastes some of the tab title length. I use a browser window for each high level topic, which mimics the advantages of high level nests.

This is a fair point. In recent years (before Brave supported tabs, but after I left Firefox), I had to use a single window because the TST-style tab manager sat beside it in a separate window. This was annoying enough even with a single browser window, and it was unmanageable with multiple windows.

But now that I'm using native tabs, it is much easier for me to use multiple windows because the tabs are attached. Thanks for pointing this out!

Just to add another suggestion to the multiple windows approach: the Titler extension allows you to name each window so that the title shows up before the current tab name of that window. Unfortunately, Sidebery doesn't pick it up, which makes moving tabs between windows a bit of a pain...

IMO Firefox's open tabs menu is a pretty good stand-in for vertical tabs.

Vivaldi also has vertical tabs out of the box, with single-level grouping - very similar to Edge.