Warning for Firefox users

[rekees4300]

Brave was developed by Brendan Eich the co-founder of the Mozilla Project and creator of JavaScript. He was CEO of Mozilla until the PC police forced him to resign in 2014. So it's no coincidence that the Brave browser resembles the way Firefox looked before it became a Chrome clone.

Isn't Brave based on Chrome and not Netscape?

The wikipedia article says "Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink engine". However, unlike Chrome, tabs are located directly above page content the way they used to be in Firefox a few years ago. That's the main feature I like about Brave. I also like the fact it's very fast!

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Brave (web browser) - Wikipedia

 

[TN8Man]

The wikipedia article says "Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink engine". However, unlike Chrome, tabs are located directly above page content the way they used to be in Firefox a few years ago. That's the main feature I like about Brave. I also like the fact it's very fast!

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Brave (web browser) - Wikipedia

Brave is basically Chome with new window dressing. Chome is Google. Google is the biggest threat to user privacy.

 

[oosik]

My Firefox updated about a week ago and then it began having trouble opening. After about a week - I just gave up - offloaded Firefox and downloaded Google Chrome and Opera. Now I have and use Safari, Google Chrome & Opera. I like having multiple browsers - I can do a web search with a second browser and not have to close the ops on the first browser.

 

[rekees4300]

Brave is basically Chome with new window dressing. Chome is Google. Google is the biggest threat to user privacy.

Agree that Chrome is a threat to privacy that's why I don't use ANY Google products. However I don't agree Brave is also a threat to privacy. First thing on Homepage says -> "Browse faster by blocking ads and trackers that violate your privacy and cost you time and money."

 

[TN8Man]

Agree that Chrome is a threat to privacy that's why I don't use ANY Google products. However I don't agree Brave is also a threat to privacy. First thing on Homepage says -> "Browse faster by blocking ads and trackers that violate your privacy and cost you time and money."

Threats to privacy is not just blocking ads. Snowden and Assange showed us that.

 

[rekees4300]

Threats to privacy is not just blocking ads. Snowden and Assange showed us that.

Different strokes for different folks. If you don't want to use Brave browser then don't. BTW Snowden and Assange didn't obtain their info via any web browser. :confused2:

 

[/pine]

If a user is not connected through a VN or a proxy...and you are not at least monitoring the scripts that run within web pages on all the common browsers...you would be in for a huge surprise...

on just news and social media sites there are literally hundreds and hundreds of different information gathering scripts...(including some companies that set cookies that are capable of examining any other cookies in the same directory on a personal machine)...

If you want security on a browser I suggest the TOR browser and network Tor Project: Anonymity Online

FWIW...Older computers that are considered obsolete by modern standards are great for setting up a personal web proxy servers...a private network of computers can access web data through said server losing all the risks of being directly connected to the Internet...

 

[FTG-05]

Version 52 was the last one to support windows XP so if that is what you have it will not update past that.

I'm running Windows XP Pro and Firefox 54.0.1 (32 bit). FF says there is another update, but I'm not letting it right now.

 

[Mendonsy]

I'm running Windows XP Pro and Firefox 54.0.1 (32 bit). FF says there is another update, but I'm not letting it right now.

Hmmmm ..... I have two XP Pro machines still running but Firefox says that I can't update them. I guess I'll have to try putting 54.01 on one of them.

 

[TN8Man]

If a user is not connected through a VN or a proxy...and you are not at least monitoring the scripts that run within web pages on all the common browsers...you would be in for a huge surprise...

on just news and social media sites there are literally hundreds and hundreds of different information gathering scripts...(including some companies that set cookies that are capable of examining any other cookies in the same directory on a personal machine)...

If you want security on a browser I suggest the TOR browser and network Tor Project: Anonymity Online

FWIW...Older computers that are considered obsolete by modern standards are great for setting up a personal web proxy servers...a private network of computers can access web data through said server losing all the risks of being directly connected to the Internet...

+1 :thumbsup: