• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    I’ve been dual welding browsers since chrome came out. The second they started talking about deprecating manifest 2, I test drove Vivaldi and Brave. Now they’re set up as my second.

    I tried to convert over to Libwolf, But it absolutely massacres my passkeys.

    I plan to main Firefox until they do something stupid which I think is inevitable with their recent statements.

    I’m just hoping that by the time The other Firefox shoe drops there will be something else viable on the market. I don’t know how long Brave and Vivaldi can hold out with chromium changing underneath them

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      13 days ago

      I wouldn’t trust Brave as it has a poor track record for privacy and is often used as a crypto miner behind the scenes.

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        That’s a fairly long time ago now and the crypto token crap is off by default. As far as I know they are the only browser with a paid development team that is trying to combat YouTube ads. And they’re blocking technique is unique amongst the options we have. If it comes down to using Brave for YouTube, I have no problem with doing that.

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          Vivaldi, run by the old opera team, has their own adblock built into the app itself

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            And that’s why I keep them in the running. They openly claim that they intend to support V2 for as long as they are able but they admit the possibilities of having to push that code in if chromium made it difficult enough to maintain.

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          The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation… when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I’d long deleted on other devices etc

          I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

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            Yeah, I don’t use their sync for bookmarks. I just keep the plugins the same with that. I installed the X bookmarks plugin everywhere and just do a manual export/import when I want to. Is keeping my toolbars lined up between all the different browsers.

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      12 days ago

      Oof I was considering LW but now am worried about the passkeys. Was that from an import or a remove and recreate?

      Been meaning to try Zen but maybe I should test more before trying either

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        It won’t trigger or accept my Bitwarden passkeys, and on google, if I do the use other device, it pops on my phone for bio auth, but the browser just never accepts the credentials.

        I’d try it if I were you, I do a lot of strange things. just check to make sure they work for you first.