Firefox has been my default since I was introduced to it at like the age of 6 (so like over 13 years ago) and for whatever reason I have never gotten used to the workflow of other browsers
@@rawshou136 OK tell me how "workflow" has ever been 'slowed down' or whatever parameters you care to specify in other browsers. They're basically all the same as far as 'workflow' means.
Hey Chris, I would love to see another browser video, but for phones. For example extension support, privacy, you know the usual stuff everyone likes you for!
Oh yeah, There are a couple from the F-Droid store you should check out. None of the big dogs are good on mobile. I go with Fennec (firefox based) or DuckDuckGo. I also loved the Vanadium Browser from GrapheneOS which was chromium based.
Firefox beta android / Firefox preview is pretty good, looking very promising and stable for use right now, and is looking good for when the stable version is released, also default internet browser of Samsung was pretty good until I started using Firefox preview (both support extensions)
@@bjqp06 Yeah mate I tried fenix for a while and if I can enable DOH in preview I'd be really happy to make it my default browser. Thanks for the recommendation though!
I personally really like the built in features of Vivaldi like tab stacking and video pop out cause it really helps for things like school or research but I will admit that brave does have a much sleeker/new looking design/theme then Vivaldi but since I haven't experienced any slow downs or major problems with it but if I ever do in the future I might look into brave
I respect you not liking Firefox, but still don't get what you mean that you don't like its workflow. It's a pretty standard browsing experience and it has everything you would expect from a browser. It's also highly customizable and the account sync does everything you mentioned in the video. What exactly is there not to like?
I used firefox before! but I did not like it because some pages did not open. I decided to go to brave on the recommendation of a friend, and I am satisfied. I want to enter my channel so that you know brave. Greetings
I switched to Firefox at the beginning of last year and it has been my favorite browser, though the 77.0.1 version was broken and became almost unusable on my 5 year old desktop that ran Linux Mint 19.3 that I replaced yesterday. Now on my new computer with LM 20 and recent 78.0.1 update it works like it used to. Overall Firefox is the best browser for me.
I still use Vivaldi. Haven't noticed any slowdowns. I don't like Brave's start page at all. The main thing that turns me off. Plus Vivaldi has side panels and a lot of nice features I'm used to now.
Yup I really enjoyed my time with Vivaldi, I think I must have run into an old extention or issues with them conflicting with the latest version because it went from fast to very slow quickly. If I had to point to a culprit it would probably be ublock origin.
Chris Titus Tech I stopped using ublock in Vivaldi just because I added a few lists to the built in ad and tracker blocking and it works just as well. My philosophy is always as few extensions as possible. Yeah, i lose some functionality, but i don’t really notice. Mine hasn’t slowed down.
@@ChrisTitusTech They have recently added the built-in ad and tracker blocker so you don't need uBlock anymore. Though it's worth noting I use uBlock myself and Vivaldi (latest version) still feels very snappy. You could try going to the Vivaldi Snapshot build, maybe that will work. For some reason a lot of people seem to be getting random performance issues with Vivaldi, I hope the developers work on that.
I'm pretty much in love with Vivaldi, don't even look at other browsers any more. I was a huge fan of classic Opera from pre-2014, Vivaldi is by the guy who made that. I have been most delighted by its recent evolutions, the addition of a mobile browser with sync and the new powered-up Notes panel especially. To me it's the best power browser, and also the most rapidly-improving. It's got a lot of potential - I barely even browse the web any more because the experience has become so awful with ads and stupid cookie and popup messages etc. I just clip stuff I want to read using Evernote. But Evernote is much worse than Vivaldi in many user-friendliness aspects like UI customization. I'm hoping that Vivaldi's Notes could eventually evolve into a better version of Evernote. Especially because I'm moving to Linux and Evernote has no desktop app for Linux, only a web app with less functionality. My move to Linux has been so much easier because Vivaldi is such an important hub for my computer activity, and it works perfectly across the Lin/Win barrier. If Vivaldi Notes starts to incorporate proper page clipping, note history, tagging and Tomboy Notes-like cross-note linking functionality, it will be a stone cold Evernote killar!
if i can get a brave browser or vivaldi browser based on firefox instead . i'd use those. i actually really wanted to use vivaldi but when i found out it has chromium base , that was a hard NOPE for me. their email services though has been serving me very well.
@ViciousDave4Life so far only 2 i use right now are librewolf and firefox. but i've begun to experience some issues here on youtube. sometimes youtube will just up an completely stop working. pages will load and videos will buffer but its like the play button was disabled somehow. and the countless amounts of crashes youtube has caused these 2 browsers. and i know its youtube because it happens on no other site. i don't know what they have youtube doing but whatever it is firefox doesn't agree to it.
I've never used Brave on Linux, but I have on Windows a little. I do like Brave but I'm not sure why I don't run it on Linux. I tend to use Firefox as my primary browser on both my Linux systems. People complain about Firefox being "slow" but neglect to mention the plethora of add-ons they have installed. I actually maintain a couple of "extra" Firefox profiles: one is "Vanilla" which has no extensions installed; one is "malware" for when I test phishing email links and I have a couple of security related add-ons installed. I use Opera a little and have Chromium and Vivaldi installed, mostly for website testing purposes. I'm with you on how Brave looks. Very clean and stylish. Will you install Brave on macOS too? :) Thanks for posting!
Hi Chris, just finished watching an older video about CHMOD...gotta say my favourite videos of yours are tips I don't need yet but I know would mess me up later on down the road, so thank you so much, keep doing what you're doing :)
@@RodrigoDAgostino I love Firefox but I also hate it. There is no perfect browser, and I thought his explication made sense because the feel of Firefox sucks. The look and speed is behind on brave
@@Maledis87 the feel of Firefox sucks? How is that an explanation? Feeling is something VERY personal and doesn't count as an argument at all. To me Firefox feels amazing, specially when comparing it to Chrome. There is a reason why Brave switched to Chromium, just like Opera and Edge, and that made my decision way much easier. I didn't need to even consider them as options. Besides thinking about your “feelings” you should also consider what you stand for and who you want to support.
I used firefox before! but I did not like it because some pages did not open. If u decided to go to brave on the recommendation of a friend, and I am satisfied. I want to enter my channel so that you know brave. Greetings
@@redwood3723 On a PC? When was the last time you tried it? Pretty sure for at least a few versions Firefox has been as fast or faster than Chromium, if that's what you're comparing it too.
My favorite browser is Firefox (been using it forever). I use Chrome at work for a certain apps compatibility. Chrome is fast, but that is the only quality I admire in it. My favorite alternative browser is Opera. Opera includes so many innovative features, but sometimes doesn't play well with some web sites I use. I've heard a lot of good things about Brave browser, and I will try that one out next sometime in the near future.
Oh my God... Vivaldi is So far and aware superior in so many ways to Chrome, Firefox, (Safari when on Mac). Thank You for bringing to light Vivaldi and all of the many features (Especially Syncing across my mobile phone).
I've grown to enjoy the Firefox workflow (moving away from Chrome). Only thing I don't like about Firefox is when you're on a slow connection, the URL takes forever just to show up in the address bar. If you're opening a new tab, didn't see the URL beforehand and your connection is *that* horrible, it might give up loading, and you can't even refresh the page because there's no URL there. Both desktop and iOS; I bet it's the same on Android. Another thing about Firefox; it tends to give up loading the page rather quickly on a bad connection. I still like its built-in features, its tracking protection, and the syncing.
@@himanshutripathi7441 i'm on Plasma, so Wayland is not a thing for me yet. But I tested it out on a Ubuntu installation and couldn't notice any difference. Maybe I did something wrong :D
@@embeddedbastler6406 yeah you have mess with it to enable hardware acceleration and making sure it runs on wayland mode. Atleast on Arch. Fedora is the best for this rn.
To me Firefox is still the best (in UI) with Vivaldi second. I still use Chromium on my Linux machine for a lot of stuff because of hardware-accelerated video. Firefox has it coming too, luckily.
I like Vivaldi Because it is fast and let you install chrome extension at the same time, the only thing I didn't like is I can't let the file automatically open after downloading. Over all a very good browser! And Microsoft Edge is switching to chromium base now so we can see if It will make it more popular???
I've been using Brave ever since I saw your first video about it. I love it. It's so much faster than chrome. I only wish the dash clock would come in 24hr format.
I used to use Opera before I read it had been sold to a company that sells your information. I now use Vivaldi. I do not sync any of my browsers and use extensions in each instance of Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Between 2 laptops, I have either triple booted or used virtual machines. For friends and family, I set them up on Linux or a dual boot but do not remove their Windows nor encourage them to use the Windows instance because they were constantly calling me about issues. My Linux flavor of choice for me and setups for others is Kubuntu LTS. I use Mac at work and when working from home , but it is my second choice behind Linux. I dislike Windows very much except when I get paid to fix someone’s computer. For now, I am sticking with Vivaldi, Firefox, and occasionally I may use Chrome. Chris, I thank you for all your insightful videos, but I only have two things I cannot solve. 1. I cannot find a work around for streaming Xfinity/Comcast from Kubuntu and 2. I have a Dell Inspiron 5010 that I wiped clean and now the touchpad does not work under Kubuntu 20.04. There is a Windows driver but as you know they don’t work on Linux. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Brave had so many TH-camrs pushing it all the sudden one might be a little suspicious like they're making money off it or something... At least this guy is upfront about getting paid but many don't mention that. I'll stick with Firefox because it actually allows ad blocking
I started out with AOL Desktop and then switched to Firefox. I have to say that Firefox is the fastest browser I've seen. Its just nice. I want to try brave, but idk about it yet
I installed Brave after watching this video a few hours ago, so good, it loads faster than Firefox and Google Chrome too. If you want to try it out, on my channel a video for you to learn how to use Brave. Greetings.
@@kalijasin "Always Off Line"; an early primitive late 20th Century Earth communications network for computers.Captain, this means we are back sometime between 1980 and 2020. There are even advertisement for so-called "high-speed 56K modems".
@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks for the reply Chris. I have been using firefox for so long all the things you mention are more than second nature. If I were to switch browser I would have to relearn them but I don't consider them things I even think about. I guess I have been using PC's for too long :) I have just looked up the version history for firefox as I assumed I have been using it since 2003 but that's before it started so I must have been one of the early users from V2 or 3 ! My how time flies.
Hey Chris, I don’t know if you’re gonna see this since this video is a little older, but I think there is one area I think you should cover next time you do a browser video. Performance. And sure I mean speed on the browser, but more performance on the system, but more like how much CPU it uses, how much RAM, etc. I think the main thing people would want to see in that is Firefox vs Brave. I would load it up with the extensions and settings you use/recommend and then do a couple real world tests like watching a TH-cam video, having a couple of tabs pulled up in the background, etc.
Flashpeak SLIMJET has had complete SYNCHRONIZATION for years now. It also allows all the Chromium ad-ons & extensions to be used. The inbuilt is not so good, so I use uBlock. Gesture control, tab close are flexible & inbuilt. Synchs on both Linux & Windows, whatever hardware is last used by the user name. Brave does not allow full add-on use.
I like firefox but i tested out vivaldi too and found it great and best of all you don't need ublock origin for vivaldi since vivaldi has built in ad block. They have great adblock filters that don't slow vivaldi down. From my perspective Vivaldi is meant to provide what you need without add-ons.
I use many browsers in parallel and this speeds up my workflow. Instead of having in the same app multiple tabs opened, or to open/close tabs all the time, I use a different browser for all my main tasks. I then open all my browsers at startup, keep them opened, and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts. So I use different browsers for : my professional email, my private email, my CRM, my company software, my tasks, my Internet browsing, my TH-cam viewing, etc. I then tried many browsing apps and the best that I found are the ones either based on Firefox or Chromium. With those, all works directly out of the Box. On my Arco Linux install (Arch), I managed to easily install through Pamac the following browsers based on Firefox : Firefox, Cliqz, Librewolf, Waterfox, Abrowser, Pale Moon. And the browsers based on Chromium that I use are Brave and Vivaldi. Hopefully this idea could also improve your setup.
I load a range of browsers for various purposes, but FF is my daily driver. I do believe that the original release of Quantum was crap and it was a painful time, but it's good now.
I love firefox is the one that consumes the least resources, chrome uses a lot of resources and I feel it just as fast, brave and vivaldi are good, I also have them installed
0:33 we aren't talking about Safari or iMessage here. So why does firefox feel off? It's a browser I don't get how it can feel different. If it is slower say it or if the javascript engine isn't up to snuff say it.
How do I get Gmail in Brave broswer? Also can anybody tell me how to get Vivaldi brower working? When I load it up, after about a second it closes itself. when I try to play most TH-cam videos in firefox I keep getting this stupid "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video." How do I fix this? I tried removing extensions, clearing my history, installing the microsoft media feature pack, but nothing worked. SOMEBODY, PLEASE HELP!
You talked about customization, performance, etc. But what about privacy? Loading pages 2ms faster and/or tweaking the overall look of the browser is not worth giving away so much data. Firefox FTW.
Sir I need your help, I have a problem about my pc, because it shutsdown ramdomly when I playgames. or I use the browser. but its not always happens. but It annoys me. pls help. sometimes it will show red screen before it shuts down. sometimes white , sometimes black.
which extensions did you use on Vivaldi? I use Ublock Origin, duckduck go privacy essentials, Grammarly and myJDownloader on two PCs- a high-end gaming PC and a very low-end 11 years old atom 455 netbook and both feel the same (as in before the updates).
@@sagarrout3725 it may be a bit slower but it lets you install mozilla store addons which brave does not allow you to do. i would switch to brave if i could just have a pop up blocker extension
I love firefox ngl my brother introduce it to me but now for some reason for me firefox is slow so I'm thinking to switch to brave cause one of my friend suggested it and he says that it's a good browser.should I switched or not ?
Only reason I use Firefox is because it vital for my remote job. Its on my phone, its on the tablet, on virtual machine, laptop extra. No matter what os be windows, IOS, Linux, it there working without much of a fuss. When I make a book mark on one, change a password, its updated across all devices.
I installed Brave after watching this video a few hours ago, so good, it loads faster than Firefox and Google Chrome too. If you want to try it out, on my channel a video for you to learn how to use Brave. Greetings.
I'm a Firefox and Chromium user since like forever. Vavaldi and Brave are pretty ok, but I don't like the look and feel of them. I just dont have the feelings I have for my usual browsers. They do the job together with my add ons. I guess choosing the right web browser is the same discussion as the typical what Linux distro people should use. The power of choice : use whats suits you the best, it's more of a personal choice.
Hi Chris I'm having issues with accessing duckduckgo website or use its search engine when using incognito on fedora and ubuntu. Error says can't reach the site Can you help? Faced this problem on both the operating systems on mozilla chrome and brave broswer .
i love how customize-able it is so i'm staying with it too. I haven't seen a difference in speed with it at all so it may just be certain extensions that slow it down.
I know you dont use Firefox that much but if you know, is this sync feature better than Firefox's sync. And if it is, what makes it better. My bookmarks, usernames, settings are all automatically set up by Firefox Sync, its got a mobile version (I dont know if Brave has one) and I can send websites from my phone to my laptop with it. It would be interesting to try Brave but these kind of sync features firefox give me are great and using the same browser and mobile and pc is useful for a lot of reasons. P. S. Talking about mobile, what browser do you use on your phone Chris?
Hi Chris, it's no thrue that only nighty version of Brave have sync option. In stable branch version you can activate it on this way: brave://flags/ - and then anable sync option :)
Must admit I don't really like the Brave wallpapers - so switch them off. First off I didn't like Honeysuckle now I love it. Is there a way of registering with it?
Vivaldi has a great Page Capture. I'm a function-kinda guy, screw the aesthetics :-) But, yep, it has seemed to use-up resources, lately. Does Brave match that Capture function? Hmmm...let me go see....
I use Brave which loads most of my pages seconds faster than any other browser because of its ad blocking. I then have to use Firefox to download any videos from TH-cam, since the Brave code base won't allow any extensions that can do that - and it still provides capabilities that aren't directly censored by Google. Firefox is worth supporting because there should always be more than a single code base for something implementing open protocols like http!
I also like rave I was thinking of switching over to brave from Microsoft edge, just because of the speed and it blocks ads and trackers, just one question does brave update automatically?
Pretty well used Brave for quite a while. I use Firefox like I use Edge - to download a browser on new installs. Brave, works better at managing my extentions. I still put ublock origin on it to filter out the few ads that it misses.
sir every single one of them sucks at downloading large files ...😭😭😭 can you suggest me any good any fast download manager for android ... i have tried ADM but its download speed is too slow...
In my opinion, Brave is like iOS. It's cool & good but it doesn't have some good abilities. But Vivaldi, which I had switched to it recently, have more good abilities. For your privacy, you can install extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger. At Vivaldi, you have a sidebar, you can tile your tabs in columns, your tabs stack is collapsed, etc. At Brave, I don't know about the previous versions but for now (Version 1.10.97 Chromium: 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)), Brave doesn't have a sidebar, can't tile your tabs, your tabs group can't be collapsed. For the tabs grouping, It's bad to see that you can't expand the tabs stack at Vivaldi & collapse the tabs group at Brave. They could have gotten both collapsing & expanding tabs group/stack. About syncing, I saw you had most options of syncing at Brave in this video which I wanted to know if there is an option in "brave://flags", please tell me to enable it. Because I can see only one option which is the bookmarks. At Vivaldi, you have more syncing options. I just saw it and turned it on but I hadn't tried it yet. I wish other browsers have the 2 best features of Firefox in them. 1) View page info. 2) Take a screenshot. We should use the computer's screenshot or an extension at the browser but Firefox have it itself. Thank you for making this video. 🌺
I don't like all the crap that most browsers have. Right now I'm using qutebrowser which is a minimal vim-like browser, the only disadvantage is that it doesn't have a full addblock, so I'm still in search of that perfect minimal browser, maybe one day...
One reason I don't use Chromium based browsers is because I really value competition, I don't want to see a repeat of what happened with NetScape Navigator and then later IE where websites were designed for specific rendering engines rather than using web standards like it should be. Although Chromium is open source, I think it's valuable to have at least more than one open source rendering engine out there as it discourages web developers from going against best practise. Firefox is great, I have no issues with it at all and now even their new Android browser is just as great. I've been using it for a few years now solidly and it just keeps getting cleaner and cleaner :)
The only reason I use Firefox is the ability to add extensions/add-ons on mobile devices. Chrome, Vivaldi & Brave doesn't support extensions on their mobile apps. As a web developer myself knowing how to write my own browser extensions, I can't live without a browser without an extensions. I know there are Yandex, Kiwi, Dolphin & few others chromium based mobile browsers that support extensions, but Firefox seems to be the most well known to many since many years ago.
But why is no-one actually mentioning performance ... like 50 tabs in chrome use 2ish GB for me but in brave its like 4ish GB, seems i had Ublock origin also active on brave now perf is somehwat equal
Been using brave-nightly for 2 days now, and I'm really enjoying the experience! But do you know how to remove the gray-ish window border that's present on non-fullscreen?
I'd appreciate your opinion as I'm stuck on making a tough decision. I'm looking for an optimal web browser set up for maximum online privacy. I'm debating which of these 3 options is best. The first option is using 4 different web browsers, 1 for each (email, banking, shopping and general web browsing). Option 2 is using Firefox exclusively and having 4 different user profiles set up. Option 3 is to use just 1 Firefox user profile and create "containers". I love firefox and really prefer option 3 best then option 2 because it would be great using 1 browser. However, I'm thinking it will not offer the most security against fingerprinting and tracking. I'm new to all this and would greatly appreciate your suggestions!
I can see why someone wants to sync, but there is a bit too much. BI tried Brave a few months ago and felt there were privacy issues withit despite their marketing. Maybe, I''ll give it another look.
I have used Brave browser a lot and still using but, there was an incident that I want to mention regarding Brave. I was using Brave's ads for the the coins or smthng. Then suddenly, one day I thought of not using all of that as I felt that it was bothering me. I removed the ad subscription and it's details in the browser's dashboard. Everything was working fine but Ads started appearing in the TH-cam and also some other few sites(I mean very few). I don't know before all those subscriptions, ads never appeared in any of the sites I visit, but I guess it all started with the Unsubscription.
The only issues I find with Firefox are usually related to slower loading of things like GMail, TH-cam and such. Which is, surprise, actually a thing Google did on purpose iirc.
Firefox has been my default since I was introduced to it at like the age of 6 (so like over 13 years ago) and for whatever reason I have never gotten used to the workflow of other browsers
Workflow? Hahahahahaha
when i heard what google does i jumped to Firefox migrated all my bookmarks i never came back people say Firefox is slower but i never felt it
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@@rawshou136 OK tell me how "workflow" has ever been 'slowed down' or whatever parameters you care to specify in other browsers. They're basically all the same as far as 'workflow' means.
@@alexeisavrasov888 oh my perverted mind thought you mean something "else" with workflow ;-)
At the beginning of dawn, I was a Netscape Navigator. Then used IE. Moved to Opera and now sticking with Firefox for last 15 odd years. Love it.
Oh I also had used Safari for a short while somewhere in between
Hey Chris, I would love to see another browser video, but for phones. For example extension support, privacy, you know the usual stuff everyone likes you for!
Oh yeah, There are a couple from the F-Droid store you should check out. None of the big dogs are good on mobile. I go with Fennec (firefox based) or DuckDuckGo. I also loved the Vanadium Browser from GrapheneOS which was chromium based.
@@ChrisTitusTech Hey thank you! I'll definitely check them out. Couldn't believe you replied, thank you for taking the time!
Firefox beta android / Firefox preview is pretty good, looking very promising and stable for use right now, and is looking good for when the stable version is released, also default internet browser of Samsung was pretty good until I started using Firefox preview (both support extensions)
@@bjqp06 Yeah mate I tried fenix for a while and if I can enable DOH in preview I'd be really happy to make it my default browser.
Thanks for the recommendation though!
@@ChrisTitusTech F-droid is amazing
I've degoogled everything (except for TH-cam) thanks to it
I'll try Fennec. I use Midori and Firefox
I personally really like the built in features of Vivaldi like tab stacking and video pop out cause it really helps for things like school or research but I will admit that brave does have a much sleeker/new looking design/theme then Vivaldi but since I haven't experienced any slow downs or major problems with it but if I ever do in the future I might look into brave
Me: Using chrome to find the best browser
Chrome: am i a joke to you?
Yes
Brave devs are known for adding some unique features, some of them are so unique, that users have no idea they are included..
I've been maining brave for about 6 months now. The speeds is awesome. Might try the nightly build now. Thanks.
I respect you not liking Firefox, but still don't get what you mean that you don't like its workflow. It's a pretty standard browsing experience and it has everything you would expect from a browser. It's also highly customizable and the account sync does everything you mentioned in the video. What exactly is there not to like?
My thoughts exactly! How doesn't he like the “workflow” of Firefox when it's basically the same as every other browser?
I used firefox before! but I did not like it because some pages did not open. I decided to go to brave on the recommendation of a friend, and I am satisfied. I want to enter my channel so that you know brave. Greetings
I switched to Firefox at the beginning of last year and it has been my favorite browser, though the 77.0.1 version was broken and became almost unusable on my 5 year old desktop that ran Linux Mint 19.3 that I replaced yesterday. Now on my new computer with LM 20 and recent 78.0.1 update it works like it used to. Overall Firefox is the best browser for me.
V77.0.1 was the worst
Huge slowdown on windows
Updated to 78
Everything working now
I still use Vivaldi. Haven't noticed any slowdowns. I don't like Brave's start page at all. The main thing that turns me off. Plus Vivaldi has side panels and a lot of nice features I'm used to now.
Yup I really enjoyed my time with Vivaldi, I think I must have run into an old extention or issues with them conflicting with the latest version because it went from fast to very slow quickly. If I had to point to a culprit it would probably be ublock origin.
Chris Titus Tech I stopped using ublock in Vivaldi just because I added a few lists to the built in ad and tracker blocking and it works just as well. My philosophy is always as few extensions as possible. Yeah, i lose some functionality, but i don’t really notice. Mine hasn’t slowed down.
@@ChrisTitusTech They have recently added the built-in ad and tracker blocker so you don't need uBlock anymore. Though it's worth noting I use uBlock myself and Vivaldi (latest version) still feels very snappy. You could try going to the Vivaldi Snapshot build, maybe that will work. For some reason a lot of people seem to be getting random performance issues with Vivaldi, I hope the developers work on that.
The side panels in Vivaldi are amazing and convenient.
I'm pretty much in love with Vivaldi, don't even look at other browsers any more. I was a huge fan of classic Opera from pre-2014, Vivaldi is by the guy who made that. I have been most delighted by its recent evolutions, the addition of a mobile browser with sync and the new powered-up Notes panel especially. To me it's the best power browser, and also the most rapidly-improving. It's got a lot of potential - I barely even browse the web any more because the experience has become so awful with ads and stupid cookie and popup messages etc. I just clip stuff I want to read using Evernote. But Evernote is much worse than Vivaldi in many user-friendliness aspects like UI customization. I'm hoping that Vivaldi's Notes could eventually evolve into a better version of Evernote. Especially because I'm moving to Linux and Evernote has no desktop app for Linux, only a web app with less functionality. My move to Linux has been so much easier because Vivaldi is such an important hub for my computer activity, and it works perfectly across the Lin/Win barrier. If Vivaldi Notes starts to incorporate proper page clipping, note history, tagging and Tomboy Notes-like cross-note linking functionality, it will be a stone cold Evernote killar!
No fanboism here but I would never leave Firefox. I tried them all, but for me the best are: Firefox for PC and Safari for iPad.
My personal browser is Vivaldi and 2nd Firefox. There's no need to switch. I'm happy with them.
do you have a problem with google search on vivaldi ? because i have and i didn't find any solution
if i can get a brave browser or vivaldi browser based on firefox instead .
i'd use those.
i actually really wanted to use vivaldi but when i found out it has chromium base , that was a hard NOPE for me.
their email services though has been serving me very well.
@ViciousDave4Life so far only 2 i use right now are librewolf and firefox.
but i've begun to experience some issues here on youtube.
sometimes youtube will just up an completely stop working.
pages will load and videos will buffer but its like the play button was disabled somehow.
and the countless amounts of crashes youtube has caused these 2 browsers.
and i know its youtube because it happens on no other site.
i don't know what they have youtube doing but whatever it is firefox doesn't agree to it.
Just switched to Vivaldi in April 2021, and it's very fast. Several extensions and I'm loving it so far.
I've never used Brave on Linux, but I have on Windows a little. I do like Brave but I'm not sure why I don't run it on Linux. I tend to use Firefox as my primary browser on both my Linux systems. People complain about Firefox being "slow" but neglect to mention the plethora of add-ons they have installed. I actually maintain a couple of "extra" Firefox profiles: one is "Vanilla" which has no extensions installed; one is "malware" for when I test phishing email links and I have a couple of security related add-ons installed.
I use Opera a little and have Chromium and Vivaldi installed, mostly for website testing purposes.
I'm with you on how Brave looks. Very clean and stylish. Will you install Brave on macOS too? :)
Thanks for posting!
Hi Chris, just finished watching an older video about CHMOD...gotta say my favourite videos of yours are tips I don't need yet but I know would mess me up later on down the road, so thank you so much, keep doing what you're doing :)
I left Brave about 5 months ago due to broken sync..... Currently on Firefox and not seeing myself going back again.
Yes the sync is so bad
Firefox sync is best
Until your sync breaks again.
So you finally explain why you don't like to use Firefox? :)
Did that feel like an explanation to you? It sounded like a lame excuse to me.
@@RodrigoDAgostino I love Firefox but I also hate it. There is no perfect browser, and I thought his explication made sense because the feel of Firefox sucks. The look and speed is behind on brave
@@Maledis87 the feel of Firefox sucks? How is that an explanation? Feeling is something VERY personal and doesn't count as an argument at all. To me Firefox feels amazing, specially when comparing it to Chrome. There is a reason why Brave switched to Chromium, just like Opera and Edge, and that made my decision way much easier. I didn't need to even consider them as options. Besides thinking about your “feelings” you should also consider what you stand for and who you want to support.
I used firefox before! but I did not like it because some pages did not open. If u decided to go to brave on the recommendation of a friend, and I am satisfied. I want to enter my channel so that you know brave. Greetings
@@RodrigoDAgostino yeah that’s a valid reason. If he doesn’t like the feel of the browser why would he use it? You are able to like it and use it.
I been using Firefox since it was Netscape! I tried Chromium for a week back in the day, hated it.
I'm also a netscape refugee. Firefox has been pretty dependable.
@@redwood3723 On a PC? When was the last time you tried it? Pretty sure for at least a few versions Firefox has been as fast or faster than Chromium, if that's what you're comparing it too.
My favorite browser is Firefox (been using it forever). I use Chrome at work for a certain apps compatibility. Chrome is fast, but that is the only quality I admire in it. My favorite alternative browser is Opera. Opera includes so many innovative features, but sometimes doesn't play well with some web sites I use. I've heard a lot of good things about Brave browser, and I will try that one out next sometime in the near future.
Oh my God... Vivaldi is So far and aware superior in so many ways to Chrome, Firefox, (Safari when on Mac). Thank You for bringing to light Vivaldi and all of the many features (Especially Syncing across my mobile phone).
I've grown to enjoy the Firefox workflow (moving away from Chrome). Only thing I don't like about Firefox is when you're on a slow connection, the URL takes forever just to show up in the address bar. If you're opening a new tab, didn't see the URL beforehand and your connection is *that* horrible, it might give up loading, and you can't even refresh the page because there's no URL there. Both desktop and iOS; I bet it's the same on Android.
Another thing about Firefox; it tends to give up loading the page rather quickly on a bad connection. I still like its built-in features, its tracking protection, and the syncing.
At 2:20 , what is the sidebar on the left? I thought that Brave doesn't do that- seems useful.
The only feature missing in Firefox is vaapi (hardware decoding) for Linux (X11).
But they are working on it and it could become soon reality.
Hw acceleration has started to work on Wayland. I am not sure if it's easy but do checkout.
@@himanshutripathi7441 i'm on Plasma, so Wayland is not a thing for me yet.
But I tested it out on a Ubuntu installation and couldn't notice any difference. Maybe I did something wrong :D
Firefox 80 should have VAAPI for X11
@@embeddedbastler6406 yeah you have mess with it to enable hardware acceleration and making sure it runs on wayland mode. Atleast on Arch. Fedora is the best for this rn.
To me Firefox is still the best (in UI) with Vivaldi second. I still use Chromium on my Linux machine for a lot of stuff because of hardware-accelerated video. Firefox has it coming too, luckily.
Bro which browser is best for PC and mobile
I like Vivaldi Because it is fast and let you install chrome extension at the same time, the only thing I didn't like is I can't let the file automatically open after downloading. Over all a very good browser!
And Microsoft Edge is switching to chromium base now so we can see if It will make it more popular???
I've been using Brave ever since I saw your first video about it. I love it. It's so much faster than chrome. I only wish the dash clock would come in 24hr format.
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I used to use Opera before I read it had been sold to a company that sells your information. I now use Vivaldi. I do not sync any of my browsers and use extensions in each instance of Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Between 2 laptops, I have either triple booted or used virtual machines. For friends and family, I set them up on Linux or a dual boot but do not remove their Windows nor encourage them to use the Windows instance because they were constantly calling me about issues. My Linux flavor of choice for me and setups for others is Kubuntu LTS. I use Mac at work and when working from home , but it is my second choice behind Linux. I dislike Windows very much except when I get paid to fix someone’s computer. For now, I am sticking with Vivaldi, Firefox, and occasionally I may use Chrome. Chris, I thank you for all your insightful videos, but I only have two things I cannot solve. 1. I cannot find a work around for streaming Xfinity/Comcast from Kubuntu and 2. I have a Dell Inspiron 5010 that I wiped clean and now the touchpad does not work under Kubuntu 20.04. There is a Windows driver but as you know they don’t work on Linux. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Brave had so many TH-camrs pushing it all the sudden one might be a little suspicious like they're making money off it or something... At least this guy is upfront about getting paid but many don't mention that. I'll stick with Firefox because it actually allows ad blocking
Get your drift but ad blocking can be used on every browser and Brave has a build in ad blocker just like Opera etc.
I started out with AOL Desktop and then switched to Firefox. I have to say that Firefox is the fastest browser I've seen. Its just nice.
I want to try brave, but idk about it yet
Firefox is decent, but it's slow in my own experience
@@Tiger9194 On Google sites mostly, because Google codes them that way, on other sites Firefox is good enough.
AOL? 😮
I installed Brave after watching this video a few hours ago, so good, it loads faster than Firefox and Google Chrome too. If you want to try it out, on my channel a video for you to learn how to use Brave. Greetings.
@@kalijasin "Always Off Line"; an early primitive late 20th Century Earth communications network for computers.Captain, this means we are back sometime between 1980 and 2020. There are even advertisement for so-called "high-speed 56K modems".
Someone explain to me what workflow is on a browser ?
It's code for not wasting time
Workflow = bookmarks, homepage, browsing speed, passwords, etc... There is actually quite a bit a browser does when it comes to internet usage.
@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks for the reply Chris. I have been using firefox for so long all the things you mention are more than second nature. If I were to switch browser I would have to relearn them but I don't consider them things I even think about. I guess I have been using PC's for too long :)
I have just looked up the version history for firefox as I assumed I have been using it since 2003 but that's before it started so I must have been one of the early users from V2 or 3 !
My how time flies.
Hey Chris, I don’t know if you’re gonna see this since this video is a little older, but I think there is one area I think you should cover next time you do a browser video. Performance. And sure I mean speed on the browser, but more performance on the system, but more like how much CPU it uses, how much RAM, etc. I think the main thing people would want to see in that is Firefox vs Brave. I would load it up with the extensions and settings you use/recommend and then do a couple real world tests like watching a TH-cam video, having a couple of tabs pulled up in the background, etc.
Just like Firefox and haven't installed any browser on my work Linux machine, but only used the stock Firefox, and it's just great!
Flashpeak SLIMJET has had complete SYNCHRONIZATION for years now. It also allows all the Chromium ad-ons & extensions to be used.
The inbuilt is not so good, so I use uBlock. Gesture control, tab close are flexible & inbuilt. Synchs on both Linux & Windows, whatever hardware is last used by the user name.
Brave does not allow full add-on use.
I like firefox but i tested out vivaldi too and found it great and best of all you don't need ublock origin for vivaldi since vivaldi has built in ad block. They have great adblock filters that don't slow vivaldi down. From my perspective Vivaldi is meant to provide what you need without add-ons.
I use many browsers in parallel and this speeds up my workflow. Instead of having in the same app multiple tabs opened, or to open/close tabs all the time, I use a different browser for all my main tasks. I then open all my browsers at startup, keep them opened, and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts. So I use different browsers for : my professional email, my private email, my CRM, my company software, my tasks, my Internet browsing, my TH-cam viewing, etc. I then tried many browsing apps and the best that I found are the ones either based on Firefox or Chromium. With those, all works directly out of the Box. On my Arco Linux install (Arch), I managed to easily install through Pamac the following browsers based on Firefox : Firefox, Cliqz, Librewolf, Waterfox, Abrowser, Pale Moon. And the browsers based on Chromium that I use are Brave and Vivaldi. Hopefully this idea could also improve your setup.
I load a range of browsers for various purposes, but FF is my daily driver. I do believe that the original release of Quantum was crap and it was a painful time, but it's good now.
how do you get that sidebar?
I love brave. I just wish that the void repos had brave.
github.com/toluschr/xdeb
What else void lacs. I'm on manjaro. Whats with optimus laptop support?
@real one What would you suggest as a better alternative?
I already used chrome, chromium, opera, opera gx, brave and edge, but none of these can beat firefox
I love firefox is the one that consumes the least resources, chrome uses a lot of resources and I feel it just as fast, brave and vivaldi are good, I also have them installed
0:33 we aren't talking about Safari or iMessage here. So why does firefox feel off? It's a browser I don't get how it can feel different. If it is slower say it or if the javascript engine isn't up to snuff say it.
what about chromium-vaapi or ungoogled-chromium, since firefox, brave and etc doesnt supports video hardware acceleration under linux?
Is your take on brave still the same or you've switched to another browser?
Didn't think I would wake up and completely switch browsers today, but it's done! Only took a couple minutes to set it all up.
How do I get Gmail in Brave broswer? Also can anybody tell me how to get Vivaldi brower working? When I load it up, after about a second it closes itself. when I try to play most TH-cam videos in firefox I keep getting this stupid "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video." How do I fix this? I tried removing extensions, clearing my history, installing the microsoft media feature pack, but nothing worked. SOMEBODY, PLEASE HELP!
You talked about customization, performance, etc. But what about privacy? Loading pages 2ms faster and/or tweaking the overall look of the browser is not worth giving away so much data. Firefox FTW.
I really like the dissenter browser, blazingly fast
Sir I need your help,
I have a problem about my pc, because it shutsdown ramdomly when I playgames. or I use the browser. but its not always happens. but It annoys me. pls help. sometimes it will show red screen before it shuts down. sometimes white , sometimes black.
Firefox rules, been on it for years and no others seem even close. I keep Brave too as a secondary browser.
which extensions did you use on Vivaldi? I use Ublock Origin, duckduck go privacy essentials, Grammarly and myJDownloader on two PCs- a high-end gaming PC and a very low-end 11 years old atom 455 netbook and both feel the same (as in before the updates).
I'm 100% firefox. All devices all the time.
Android version sucks tho
@@sagarrout3725 it may be a bit slower but it lets you install mozilla store addons which brave does not allow you to do. i would switch to brave if i could just have a pop up blocker extension
Is brave your recommendation still?
I'm a total Linux noob, I'm just wondering if typical extensions will still work with Brave, such as password managers, etc?
I love firefox ngl my brother introduce it to me but now for some reason for me firefox is slow so I'm thinking to switch to brave cause one of my friend suggested it and he says that it's a good browser.should I switched or not ?
Only reason I use Firefox is because it vital for my remote job. Its on my phone, its on the tablet, on virtual machine, laptop extra. No matter what os be windows, IOS, Linux, it there working without much of a fuss. When I make a book mark on one, change a password, its updated across all devices.
I'm considering getting brave, but which build should I get? There seems to be a stable, beta, and nightly. How are they different?
I installed Brave after watching this video a few hours ago, so good, it loads faster than Firefox and Google Chrome too. If you want to try it out, on my channel a video for you to learn how to use Brave. Greetings.
How is it compared to the latest version of edge?
Thanks for this video. I'd not tried it before until seeing this. Brave is really fast. I love the import all settings from Firefox.
4:05 that blocked tracker count.... Is mildly infuriating
Yup, this was only a day of usage.
@BlackSun my brave stats renew automatically everyday. Is there any way to fix it?
Firefox honestly has a great balance of corporate backed and made for the user, especially in the recent years.
The new edge browser is soo good, using it over brave now
I'm a Firefox and Chromium user since like forever. Vavaldi and Brave are pretty ok, but I don't like the look and feel of them. I just dont have the feelings I have for my usual browsers. They do the job together with my add ons. I guess choosing the right web browser is the same discussion as the typical what Linux distro people should use. The power of choice : use whats suits you the best, it's more of a personal choice.
Hi Chris
I'm having issues with accessing duckduckgo website or use its search engine when using incognito on fedora and ubuntu.
Error says can't reach the site
Can you help?
Faced this problem on both the operating systems on mozilla chrome and brave broswer .
I've used Brave, it remembers your passwords but you have no direct access to it, I hate that.
Dashlane?
I'm addicted to Vivaldi's web panels and it's tab tiling. So, still staying on Vivaldi
i love how customize-able it is so i'm staying with it too. I haven't seen a difference in speed with it at all so it may just be certain extensions that slow it down.
I know you dont use Firefox that much but if you know, is this sync feature better than Firefox's sync. And if it is, what makes it better. My bookmarks, usernames, settings are all automatically set up by Firefox Sync, its got a mobile version (I dont know if Brave has one) and I can send websites from my phone to my laptop with it. It would be interesting to try Brave but these kind of sync features firefox give me are great and using the same browser and mobile and pc is useful for a lot of reasons.
P. S. Talking about mobile, what browser do you use on your phone Chris?
Hi Chris, it's no thrue that only nighty version of Brave have sync option. In stable branch version you can activate it on this way: brave://flags/ - and then anable sync option :)
I'm in beta and the sync works fine
I like firefox because they connect via Cloudflare and its less trouble connecting that way than resetting the computer itself.
Must admit I don't really like the Brave wallpapers - so switch them off. First off I didn't like Honeysuckle now I love it. Is there a way of registering with it?
Vivaldi has a great Page Capture. I'm a function-kinda guy, screw the aesthetics :-) But, yep, it has seemed to use-up resources, lately. Does Brave match that Capture function? Hmmm...let me go see....
Can i sync with my google account on Brave nightly?
You should try Startpage. It uses google for searching but is anonymous.
I use Firefox this on my Linux. Mostly because I like Foxes. They are cool. ✨To be honest I don’t use any extensions. ✨ why use extensions? 🤷🏼♀️
How does Brave work with a vpn . Is Tor enabled at all times or do you have to enable Tor ?
I have tried Brave. It would not load websites I need to use. No matter what I do to try and change the settings. That is why I don’t like it.
I'll give it a go tonight. Thanks m8. 🙂
I use Brave which loads most of my pages seconds faster than any other browser because of its ad blocking. I then have to use Firefox to download any videos from TH-cam, since the Brave code base won't allow any extensions that can do that - and it still provides capabilities that aren't directly censored by Google. Firefox is worth supporting because there should always be more than a single code base for something implementing open protocols like http!
I also like rave I was thinking of switching over to brave from Microsoft edge, just because of the speed and it blocks ads and trackers, just one question does brave update automatically?
Pretty well used Brave for quite a while. I use Firefox like I use Edge - to download a browser on new installs. Brave, works better at managing my extentions. I still put ublock origin on it to filter out the few ads that it misses.
sir every single one of them sucks at downloading large files ...😭😭😭
can you suggest me any good any fast download manager for android ...
i have tried ADM but its download speed is too slow...
IMO Firefox is the only real browser the rest are all pretty much the same. With that said I do like Brave I'm going to check out the nightly builds.
I’ve used Firefox on Linux but I switched form edge to Firefox today on Windows for better privacy and more features
In my opinion, Brave is like iOS. It's cool & good but it doesn't have some good abilities.
But Vivaldi, which I had switched to it recently, have more good abilities. For your privacy, you can install extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger.
At Vivaldi, you have a sidebar, you can tile your tabs in columns, your tabs stack is collapsed, etc.
At Brave, I don't know about the previous versions but for now (Version 1.10.97 Chromium: 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)), Brave doesn't have a sidebar, can't tile your tabs, your tabs group can't be collapsed.
For the tabs grouping, It's bad to see that you can't expand the tabs stack at Vivaldi & collapse the tabs group at Brave. They could have gotten both collapsing & expanding tabs group/stack.
About syncing, I saw you had most options of syncing at Brave in this video which I wanted to know if there is an option in "brave://flags", please tell me to enable it. Because I can see only one option which is the bookmarks.
At Vivaldi, you have more syncing options. I just saw it and turned it on but I hadn't tried it yet.
I wish other browsers have the 2 best features of Firefox in them. 1) View page info. 2) Take a screenshot.
We should use the computer's screenshot or an extension at the browser but Firefox have it itself.
Thank you for making this video. 🌺
I don't like all the crap that most browsers have. Right now I'm using qutebrowser which is a minimal vim-like browser, the only disadvantage is that it doesn't have a full addblock, so I'm still in search of that perfect minimal browser, maybe one day...
One reason I don't use Chromium based browsers is because I really value competition, I don't want to see a repeat of what happened with NetScape Navigator and then later IE where websites were designed for specific rendering engines rather than using web standards like it should be.
Although Chromium is open source, I think it's valuable to have at least more than one open source rendering engine out there as it discourages web developers from going against best practise. Firefox is great, I have no issues with it at all and now even their new Android browser is just as great. I've been using it for a few years now solidly and it just keeps getting cleaner and cleaner :)
Why in Linux there is no gui app to switch from intel integrated to AMD Dedicated
The only reason I use Firefox is the ability to add extensions/add-ons on mobile devices.
Chrome, Vivaldi & Brave doesn't support extensions on their mobile apps.
As a web developer myself knowing how to write my own browser extensions, I can't live without a browser without an extensions. I know there are Yandex, Kiwi, Dolphin & few others chromium based mobile browsers that support extensions, but Firefox seems to be the most well known to many since many years ago.
But why is no-one actually mentioning performance ... like 50 tabs in chrome use 2ish GB for me but in brave its like 4ish GB, seems i had Ublock origin also active on brave now perf is somehwat equal
Been using brave-nightly for 2 days now, and I'm really enjoying the experience! But do you know how to remove the gray-ish window border that's present on non-fullscreen?
Is Opera Gx Safe To Use Do They Uses User Data
I'd appreciate your opinion as I'm stuck on making a tough decision. I'm looking for an optimal web browser set up for maximum online privacy. I'm debating which of these 3 options is best. The first option is using 4 different web browsers, 1 for each (email, banking, shopping and general web browsing). Option 2 is using Firefox exclusively and having 4 different user profiles set up. Option 3 is to use just 1 Firefox user profile and create "containers". I love firefox and really prefer option 3 best then option 2 because it would be great using 1 browser. However, I'm thinking it will not offer the most security against fingerprinting and tracking. I'm new to all this and would greatly appreciate your suggestions!
I can see why someone wants to sync, but there is a bit too much. BI tried Brave a few months ago and felt there were privacy issues withit despite their marketing. Maybe, I''ll give it another look.
I use firefox since I was a little kid and always saw it installed on the lan houses (cyber cafe) PCs I played... Like, from 2004 till this day.
@Chris Titus Tech
Have you discussed the new WebKit-based version of Microsoft Edge? Do you have any thoughts/opinions on it?
i installed Brave after watching this video a few hours ago, so good, loads faster than Firefox and Google Chrome too.
I am not Brave. I'll sing of Opera. And Vivaldi is my choice and recommendation.
I have used Brave browser a lot and still using but, there was an incident that I want to mention regarding Brave. I was using Brave's ads for the the coins or smthng. Then suddenly, one day I thought of not using all of that as I felt that it was bothering me. I removed the ad subscription and it's details in the browser's dashboard. Everything was working fine but Ads started appearing in the TH-cam and also some other few sites(I mean very few). I don't know before all those subscriptions, ads never appeared in any of the sites I visit, but I guess it all started with the Unsubscription.
Brave looks like opera does it have the same extensions .
The only issues I find with Firefox are usually related to slower loading of things like GMail, TH-cam and such. Which is, surprise, actually a thing Google did on purpose iirc.