I’m choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I’m considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled “extension” like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?
Edit: some people are mentioning brave’s cryptocurrency. I don’t want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.
I know Brave has a feature to turn off inactive tabs to reduce memory consumption. Don’t think Firefox does
Firefox does
Natively?
Yep. Strangely there’s a discussion about it on Reddit from a few days before the blackout
Not sure if it’s an official feature somewhere but I use Auto Tab Discard and it works very well. It also has whitelisting supporting for when you want specific websites to never be discarded.
I’m not sure either, but after reading the add-on description, it seems like it might be.
It appears to me that the add-on simply allows for more control over which tabs are automatically or manually discarded, and it also indicates if a tab was discarded or not
The thing is Brave doesn’t discard tabs, just set them to some “sleep” mode afaik
The add-on’s name is misleading. The add-on does the same thing as brave
I don’t use Brave so I’m not sure if there’s a real difference in how it’s handled, but Auto Tab Discard seems like it does attempt to discard tabs in at least a slightly intelligent way: