Firefox vs. Brave: I’m DELETING Brave?

Firefox and Brave are popular privacy-centered web browsers. But with many similarities, they are actually quite different. How does Firefox compare to Brave, and which one is right for you?

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0:00 - Why Firefox or Brave over Chrome?
1:14 - First Impressions
2:08 - Browser Extensions
4:00 - Speed & Functionality
5:09 - Privacy
6:47 - Extra Features
8:14 - My Thoughts on Firefox vs. Brave
9:00 - Which Browser is Right for You?

Correction:
2:49 - Firefox does not use a "proprietary" browser engine. Firefox uses Mozilla's "Gecko" web engine which is free and open source for all browsers to utilize.

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[twistedoracle]

Firefox doesn't use a propriety web engine. It is open🤦‍♂

[przemekbanaszek]

Firefox and Firefox's engine (Gecko) are not proprietary, they are opensource 🤦

[xXMorodarXx]

Developing an extension for Chromium doesn't require the developer to write it from scratch for Firefox. There are certain differences in the api both browser engines offer. But you usually only need to write adapters for those differences and 90%+ of your add-on code can be reused.

[arkatanumukherjee]

Fun fact, brave was laggy and sluggish for me. Then i did switch to firefox one year ago, and never back to any other browser. Firefox is just simple and more fast browser for me.

[relaxdmj]

The management of searches and search engines is so much better on Firefox. I am surprised it is not highlighted that much.

[rano]

Brave is directly not based on Chromium. It's based on a fork of Electron they call Muon, which uses chromium/Blink. The opensource version doesn't collect any data, it's the chorme with their proprietary blob that collects all the data.

[iamakash_]

Privacy is a myth on the Internet; with a Meta, Amazon, or Google account, you can't say that you're anonymous. I just want the ad trackers to be blocked, that's it. I think brave did that, and it loads faster. I tried both with news websites where so many ads and stuff exist. Brave gave a better experience than Firefox, surprising that it did well on Android too. So brave is good for me.

[Dpk_YT]

Used brave for almost 3 years but fed up with its ram usage like chrome it also got slower day by day for me .. and I switched to Firefox and I m loving it superfast for me...

[Juice]

I'm personally a bigger fan of Brave having gone back and forth between it and Firefox. I wanted Firefox to win for me because it isn't chromium but after jumping between them for a couple months at a time over the past year or so Brave just keeps edging it out. Brave's a tad snappier, doesn't require a login to sync between devices and I don't need extensions since the basic and only features I use them for are built right into Brave.
I didn't hear it mentioned in your video but one of Mozilla's biggest contributors is actually Google. It seems to be a move from Google to keep anti-trust lawsuits from creeping up against them but if we have to hold other browsers accountable for their use of chromium then I feel like Mozilla's funding is also worth noting.
Great video though, I love hearing thoughts that are based on testing/real world use and not just regurgitating raw numbers from other sources.

[tsundokujim]

I use Firefox because I don't want to support the Chromium monoculture. With all the hoopla about Manifest v3 breaking ad blockers, you'd think more people would understand the danger of giving Google total control of the web. Only by supporting diversity in technology can we hope to counteract the predatory practices of the tech monopolies.

[LucienSabre]

Firefox has always been my go-to browser since my early internet life. It was my primary browser before Chrome appeared, during the time Chrome was all the rage and seemingly the only existing/worthy browser, when Chromium went open-source and Chromium browsers started started to multiply like fleas on a dog… Firefox is still my go-to browser (the first one I install, keeping Chrome only for phone-syncing purposes) today….and not because of privacy, but simply because **for me* personally* it’s the best browser.

[pooboobob]

This was a great comparison!

One often overlooked thing I would add is that Firefox has a better PC to mobile phone communication experience, it more seamlessly integrates sending websites back and forth between my PC and mobile browser, Brave has not fully integrated anything siilar. I am unsure if that has Chromium limitation

[Xanmattauri]

on firefox you can create containers by yourself

[henriquepicanco]

I think “proprietary engine” for Firefox was not in the sense of a closed-source, but a INDEPENDENT or DIFFERENT engine. Just like Safari and WebKit.

[toniml]

Firefox proprietary? Firefox is open, libre and FOSS. Do your research my friend.

[galloe]

"... And if you're on Windows, Firefox is basically the only choice..."

Please help me understand this statement, I honestly don't get what you mean by that.

[Ghazanfierce]

I LOVE Firefox, But it seems like I will stop using it now cz of excessive RAM usage...

[flookoco]

A good comparison, I use Safari for the cool tab features and Opera for the times when Safari breaks. I'm now trialling Brave which looks quite good. Have you tried Vivaldi, I wondered how that would fare against Firefox and Brave.

[azuradovahkiin]

I have one problem with firefox, it doesn’t download pdf on iphone, i switched from chrome to firefox month ago in my phone and pc, but now i don’t know what to do.. should i use safari on my phone and Firefox on pc? I like to use the same browser on my phone and my pc but not being able to download a pdf being such a basic thing sucks

[juhaeerjayran]

the only issue i ever got with firefox was a sound issue which turns out was not even firefox's fault. it was entirely my system forcing firefox to sue the digital sound driver(which does not work) and only then this i switching it to speaker sound driver(which actually does work). i still have brave on my pc but as a secondary browser. if i ever have to got to a website which does not properly load in firefox i am going to use brave instead

edit:i forgot to mention but also when i had a laptop(i have a desktop now) chrome didnt provide any audio while firefox did so in my perspective firefox is superior based on my own experience