Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by meesles on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:52AM
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I agree with you, but it sometimes feels like a 'great browser' is supposed to be free, bleeding-edge while also backwards compatible, tracking-free, ad-free, and somehow altruistic and for the good of the open web.
Where are we getting these absolutely unattainable ideals from? Who can possibly support and fund such a project besides an enterprise?
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by jollyllama on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:55AM
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Can I get a decent bookmark manager and more than X months of history? What's so unattainable about that?
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by markstos on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:11PM
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I like Pinboard as a bookmark manager. Browser and platform independent!
Raindrop.io seems to be better these days, plus Pinboard posts stuff like this... https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1628462667559239680
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by Fabricio20 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:04PM
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You should check out History Trends Unlimited! I also wanted an unlimited history and since no browser supports it, someone made an extension. It even automatically backs up your history for you in a neat litte zip file!
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by smoldesu on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:00PM
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> Who can possibly support and fund such a project besides an enterprise?
KHTML was doing fine before Microsoft, Google and Apple forked their codebase.
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by markstos on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:13PM
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The definition of “what is a browser” was much simpler then.
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by superhumanuser on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:52AM
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What don't you like about it?
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by JohnFen on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:08PM
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The UI, mostly. But the point isn't that I'm not in love with Brave. The point is that I use it because it's the least bad option, and I wish there were an option that I would actively like.
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by guestbest on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:42PM
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Personally, I don’t like the inability to turn off the update mechanism, which is annoying on my macos 10.13 computer that has a warning bar every time I run the brave browser application. I suppose this means there is telemetry built in that can’t be removed
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by JohnFen on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:46PM
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Yeah, that's actually been irritating me a lot lately. Brave has taken to constantly nagging me about not being able to update itself. I know! That's on purpose! Stop bugging me.
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
by bsdetector on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:08PM
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The text input spelling checker is really terrible; late 80s spell checks were better.
Forgot which, but had a 12 letter word that I misspelled one letter of, Brave underlined it in red with no replacements in right-click menu, I fixed it by googling the spelling and underline went away.
In often happens that it has no or even very wrong suggestions.
I certainly don't hate Brave. I use it. I also don't like Brave, I put up with it. It's just that there aren't any great browsers out there, and Brave sucks less than most.