For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave
What Librewolf can do (but Brave can’t):
- Be run in a portable form
- Duplicate / manage user profiles easily
- Use a self‑hosted sync server
- Install most browser plugins on mobile (e.g. Iceraven)
- Use containers to separate cookies
- Store browser history permanently
What Brave can do (but Librewolf can’t):
- Provide a better mobile user experience, including:
- smoother animations
- quick switching between tabs (tab icon feature)
- Translate web pages on mobile devices
Do browsers need to do so much? Many features seem like bloat, not must-haves for the average user.
This 2 are the best in Open Source browsers at this time, you don’t have to use all the features but they are there. this post is just for those who are interested in comparing this 2 specific browser to find out which one is most suitable, personally I prefer librewolf.
don’t use brave for anything; brave is a pro crypto ad infested slop owned by a homophobic bigot
Well at least it is open source, I guess the best alternative for people who want a chromium based browser with sync feature
Not necessarily. With the awful things about Brave, if I need a chromium based browser I’ll absolutely go non-OSS and use Vivaldi. It’s a million miles better, and it’s not worth supporting Brave just to say you’re still using an open source browser.
As a Vivaldi user, I found that no other browser works as well for me, as Vivaldi does. I can’t imagine life without browser workspaces, sync, vertical tabs on the desktop, and a mobile tab bar at the bottom.
The closest alternative is either Floorp or Zen, with mobile Firefox and Sync, but I found Vivaldi is just smoother and a better and more well-integrated user experience for me.
I might be wrong, but search results gives “Vivaldi is not entirely open source”
It’s not open source. I was saying, if you must use chrome based browsers, suck it up and use non-OSS, because Brave is just awful in so many ways.
sorry, non open source is not acceptable in my view
Brave is being forced to use Googles version of Manifest 3 meaning ad blockers and anti trackers are crippled in favour of advertisers and Googles ad business. Brave will be including 4 manifest 2 extensions in its backend but that’s it. They’re stuck because Google decided to screw over the entire Chrome based ecosystem.
Mozilla is implementing Manifest 3 differently so the original techniques for adblocking and privacy still work.
So the only choice is Librewolf. Sacrificing privacy and security for smoother animations and Web translation of pages is not worth it.
could you elaborate on the consequences of removing manifest 2? Does it mean Ublock Origin will be unavailable in Brave in the future?
You don’t need extensions to block ads in Brave. And as someone (me) prefer not to give market share to Gecko (thus, to Mozilla), Brave it is. Fuck Mozilla.
so the homophobic crypto bro browser that is just a chrome fork (and thus giving the blink engine market share) is better then mozilla how?
Yes. Bye.
What’s wrong with Mozilla?
theres a lot wrong with Mozilla, but i feel, way more wrong with brave
Mozilla
TLDR: use librewolf and ironfox on mobile I do not trust a for-profit company with something as important as my fucking browser https://redlib.tiekoetter.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/
thank you!
thanks!
Does LibreWolf come with an adblocker as good as brave and can I play YouTube videos while not having my screen on without paying for YT premium?
i think you can just install ublock origin, it’s the best adblocker i know
yes
Brave also offers a few additional, very valuable things:
- the only app that reflects fingerprinting protection in PrivacyBadger, in my experience
- works on most webpages
- selective use of first-party cookies, per site.
Any oppinions regarding librewolf vs ironfox?
ironfox is for mobile librewolf has no mobile version
You might want to take a look at https://lemmy.world/post/31706013
I’ve heard that the main dev for LibreWolf is anonymous.
If that’s true, then there is a possibility that they could easily be a foreign state actor.The code is open source, so feel free to check if that foreign state actor left any backdoor.
if you find any backdoor in librewolf and share it with public I would be very grateful
The point of open source is that it can be audited by entities and individuals with diverse (even polar opposite) motivations. Examine the code yourself if you like.
