Brave devs have already responded to the points on that page, debunking many of the author's points.
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

It's fine if you don't like a browser, but at least have valid criticism.

As someone that started out using Mozilla and then Phoenix which became Firefox, I haven't liked the way development has headed in the last decade.
Instead of trying to design a UI that is "for everyone", they should embrace the fact that the browser tends to be used by geeks.

I don't see why the "close tabs to the right" option was moved to another layer of submenu. Mainstream browsers such as Chrome and Edge don't even hide that option.

I feel Mozilla should be more like Vivaldi and embrace options and choice.

From what I remember about it, they took their base from Brave, so their security updates would be extremely late because they wait for Brave which waits for Chromium. Let me know if that's incorrect.

If you're on Android, I highly recommend the Samsung browser. It's based on Chromium and has support for adblocking extensions (adguard is pretty good).
The dark mode is also the best one I've ever seen on a mobile browser.

I worry about Opera and privacy. They even have a link somewhere on their site for you to request the data they have on you.
I think I've requested two or three times and I've never heard back from them.

In addition, the Android version checks every single URL you access against Opera's online database with no way to disable.

This is unfortunate because I love Opera on desktop and mobile.

If anyone has not checked it out yet, I highly recommend Brave Browser.
It's got a native ad blocker developed in the rust language as well as many of Google's stuff taken out.
(See https://github.com/brave/brave...

Why go with Edge when you can go for Brave (Chromium)?

Brave has been doing a great job with privacy as well as decently set defaults out of the box. I can have my parents use it because it doesn't take much to explain other than the shields. With Firefox, they may run into web compatibility issues and go back to Chrome, negating the privacy protections in the first place.

Ever since Firefox began messing with their UI, following Chrome's development cycle, and nuked their extension ecosystem (which some things have yet to be reimplemented, resulting in some cross-browser add-ons having features that work in Chrome but NOT Firefox), they have just lost so much market share. I'm sure Google pushing Chrome hard and the skyrocketing of mobile didn't do Mozilla any favors either.

I've tried to go back to Firefox, but the scrolling does not adhere to native OS scrolling behavior, meaning you have to go into about:config and tweak it until you think it looks right.