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u/nietzschecode 1d ago
Try Brave Origin. It's free on Linux. It's my daily driver from now on.
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u/BobCorndog Linux 1d ago
Were the rounded corners too much for you?
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u/nietzschecode 1d ago
No, I have had a black theme for years in Firefox, so the change was barely perceptible for me. No, the Gecko engine overall is really too slow on some pages that I visit quite often. Even when I use LibreWolf, which is lighter than Firefox, some pages are still too slow and sometimes irresponsive. On top of that, Dark Reader sucks on some pages, and it adds heaviness to the browser, while in Brave, there is, like in Chrome, a dark mode for the web built-in (using a flag). Those and other factors made me try and choose to use Brave Origin as my daily driver.
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u/P147_BOY 23h ago edited 23h ago
https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Everything you need to know about braves shady history
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u/kansetsupanikku 1d ago
Brave is horrible and I would never trust it. But if I was following Reddit comments from misplaced subreddits, hoping for universal answers - perhaps I would.
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u/redoubt515 15h ago
Firefox is the defacto standard for Linux, it's the default for most distros for good reason. It's design philosophy is more inline with the design philosophy of linux (free and open source, not for profit, supportive of power users and DIYers, highly customizable).
With that said, Chromium works totally fine on Linux also if that's what you prefer (Brave is a downstream derivative of Chromium). But you should be aware that Brave relies fully on Chromium/Google for building the browser, they add their stuff on top, and be aware that when it comes to business model, Brave--like Google--is an advertising technology company. Their users are not their primary customers, advertisers are. Brave legitimately tries to do their advertising in a less privacy violating and more user respecting way, but at the end of the day it is still an unavoidable and inherent conflict of interest when your browser has a profit motive (show ads, demonstrate to advertisers the ads are effective through tracking methods) that conflicts with your interests as a user. If you do want to use Brave, consider Brave Origin, it removes some of the anti-features and is free on Linux.
My advice is use Firefox, but try both. I pretty much never have just one browser installed on my system, but Firefox is my primary browser of choice.
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u/LesStrater 7h ago edited 21m ago
I highly recommend Firefox with Ublock-Origin for blocking ad/spy/malware. For a backup browser I have unGoogled Chromium installed. You can try the portable Linux version here: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/linux_portable/64bit/
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u/Alexey104 1d ago
How about try and see?