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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: p12 on March 08, 2019, 06:25:59 PM
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Has any body had any experience using this browser?
I was reading an article about something else and this browser was mentioned in the article comments.
I downloaded the mobil app to my iPhone and seems pretty slick.
Has built in ad blocker.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=50646.0
I've used it here and there for the past few years. It's OK, but I like Firefox and Duck Duck Go better.
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Brave is my primary, I'm happy with it. Only issue thus far is that it doesn't play well with Kaspersky.
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http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=50646.0
I've used it here and there for the past few years. It's OK, but I like Firefox and Duck Duck Go better.
I’ve settled on Duck Duck Go also.
Brave was ok on my desktop but it didn’t play nice on my IPad mini for some reason.
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Use Brave on Android.
Tried it on Linux, firefox stuff didn't import well, and updating through the apt repository was very slow.
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I've been using Pale Moon for a couple weeks now.
It's a fork off of Mozzilla Firefox.
Firefox lost me when they went SJW goofy. Plus it started getting bloated and slow on my old machine.
Pale Moon has been running pretty smooth so far with no glitches.
http://www.palemoon.org/
I have it on a laptop so if you are only looking for a mobile device browser ... nevermind :)
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Firefox lost me when they went SJW goofy. Plus it started getting bloated and slow on my old machine.
Remember when Mozilla sacked their head, for having donated some of his own money to a Calif defense of marriage iniative? He's the CEO of Brave.
I have been messing a bit more with Brave on the desktop, lately. Hampered by it not being really available on straight up Debian linux. (Is on Ubuntu and Mint.)
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Remember when Mozilla sacked their head, for having donated some of his own money to a Calif defense of marriage iniative? He's the CEO of Brave.
I have been messing a bit more with Brave on the desktop, lately. Hampered by it not being really available on straight up Debian linux. (Is on Ubuntu and Mint.)
I did not know he was running Brave. I'll have to check it out. I too am tired of Firefox's little SJW messages to me all the time. If Brave has all the features of Firefox without the nagging and judging, I think I'd like it.
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I did not know he was running Brave. I'll have to check it out. I too am tired of Firefox's little SJW messages to me all the time. If Brave has all the features of Firefox without the nagging and judging, I think I'd like it.
What messages? I don't get any.
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What messages? I don't get any.
They show up on the Firefox home page.
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They show up on the Firefox home page.
"Recommended by Pocket"? I turn that off.
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"Recommended by Pocket"? I turn that off.
No, on the bottom - "Firefox messages".
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No, on the bottom - "Firefox messages".
Whatever it is, I don't think I see it. Just something pestering me to get a Firefox account. Which is probably "snippets", which can also be turned off.
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Whatever it is, I don't think I see it. Just something pestering me to get a Firefox account. Which is probably "snippets", which can also be turned off.
I know it can all be turned off (or just set another home page), but in some ways I like to be aware of that stuff so I can make decisions on what platforms I want to support, and which platforms may be trying to bias my thoughts.
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Has built in ad blocker.
Does it play well with news website that get pissy when you have your adblocker on and won't let you continue unless you whitelist the website.
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Is Duck Duck Go a browser now also? I thought it was just a search engine.
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Is Duck Duck Go a browser now also? I thought it was just a search engine.
I think it is a mobile devise browser only.
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They show up on the Firefox home page.
You use the Firefox home page? I set my home page to Drudge Reports. I can't remember when I last saw the Firefox home page.
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You use the Firefox home page? I set my home page to Drudge Reports. I can't remember when I last saw the Firefox home page.
I've got "new tab" set to show that (set to show "top sites" I have visited, only), so I see it all the time.
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I actually really missed using Firefox.
Pale Moon is nice because I get my Firefox feel without supporting the Mozilla SJW bs.
It's like the old school Firefox not the more recent upgrades.
I may put Brave on this laptop also. It worked fine on my old Windows PC that went belly up on me.
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I actually really missed using Firefox.
Pale Moon is nice because I get my Firefox feel without supporting the Mozilla SJW bs.
It's like the old school Firefox not the more recent upgrades.
I may put Brave on this laptop also. It worked fine on my old Windows PC that went belly up on me.
I don't care for the "new" Firefox, either. I'm currently using Waterfox, but I may check out Pale Moon.
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Started using Brave yesterday and one oddity I've noticed is that Amazon is always the first link on the home page and stays there after only going there once
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I don't care for the "new" Firefox, either. I'm currently using Waterfox, but I may check out Pale Moon.
Ever notice that some of these browser names sound like beer brands?
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Just download the Brave browser yesterday and like it. I am going to stop using Firefox for personal use with what the Mozilla CEO said. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/)
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I got a new computer last month, and as part of my "clean migration", I've been trying different browsers a week at a time (been on firefox for years and years). I'm on Brave this week and I like it enough I might be done testing.
So far the only negative I have found with my strict-ish settings is it locks up on Fox Business when videos there try to run (I have autoplay blocked for all sites). Doesn't do it anywhere else. I'm thinking I'll just keep MS Edge to open when I want to see something that doesn't play nice with Brave's security, but otherwise use Brave as the main browser.
Nothing to do with the effectiveness of the Browser, but I really like the Brave stats window just to get a visual of just how many ads are blocked and just how many resources they would have taken up if they were allowed. Really lets you see just how invasive the ad model is.
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I started using it about two months ago when too many sites started disallowing IE11. Only three problems with it so far.
Can't figure how come once I enter a URL by pasting from somewhere else, to go to it, I have to use the keyboard Enter key. There doesn't seem to be an onscreen Go button for the mouse that I have found. Minor annoyance.
I can't get to one site I've been on for a long time since it wants me to sign in again, but when I do, the site treats me as a newbie and wants me to enter a screen name. When I do, it tells me that screen name is already in use. Not sure if that's a Brave problem or a site problem, but I'll go over there on IE11 and see "What's up with that?"
Migrating APS to Brave from IE11 was no problem whatsoever.
I'm having trouble with the NOAA weather site, but they've changed everything completely around. To what purpose, I cannot fathom, unless they're tailoring it completely for mobile sites or all the weather people in the nation got together and asked them to stop putting all that good information on the net. Boy, I'm getting paranoid about everything, ain't I?
Terry
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Can't figure how come once I enter a URL by pasting from somewhere else, to go to it, I have to use the keyboard Enter key. There doesn't seem to be an onscreen Go button for the mouse that I have found.
When you paste it in there will be a dropdown that pops up. The first item in that dropdown will probably say something like Brave Browser and then show the link. If you want to use your mouse, just click anywhere on that line.
Note that below that will be a magnifying glass indicating it will search based on whatever you pasted in - that is not what you want.
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I'm having trouble with the NOAA weather site, but they've changed everything completely around. To what purpose, I cannot fathom, unless they're tailoring it completely for mobile sites or all the weather people in the nation got together and asked them to stop putting all that good information on the net. Boy, I'm getting paranoid about everything, ain't I?
Terry
Most of their visual info used flash, which is gone now for security reasons, so they had to switch to other visualization tools, and did some site redesigns at the same time.
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Just download the Brave browser yesterday and like it. I am going to stop using Firefox for personal use with what the Mozilla CEO said. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/)
Yeah, I'm glad I'm on Brave now too. I've been complaining about the Mozilla SJW stuff for a while, but what a bunch of hypocrites saying the above when they have daily "free and fair web" messages. aholes.
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Most of their visual info used flash, which is gone now for security reasons, so they had to switch to other visualization tools, and did some site redesigns at the same time.
Thank Deity, that Flash is finally dead!
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Thanks, Ben, but as long as I can get my graphical forecast, I'm temporarily happy Can't get the radar screens, though, snarl. Anyhow, I want to postpone that battle until I resolve the input-button puzzle.
Cordex, no drop downs occur. But that clues me in to the fact that I downloaded Brave a while ago, then someone mentioned they had an update.
So maybe I'm running an earlier version, but I haven't looked for an update function.
Anyhow, I've got appointments this AM so I've gotta go.
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo here for a while now. Prefer over Brave, but that’s only because I haven’t really messed with Brave that much lately.
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Brave is much improved over the previous version I used.
Pale Moon was slower and didn't render all sites properly.
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cordex, I just noticed that if I right-click on the "command line" before pasting a URL, there is a drop down list that has "Paste" and then another line "Paste and go to URL." So it seems to be there, just not in the same order that you mention. I'm suspecting that my remark about having an older version and they corrected that bit of illogic in a later version might be true.
In haste, Terry
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Just download the Brave browser yesterday and like it. I am going to stop using Firefox for personal use with what the Mozilla CEO said. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/)
Given what she said, there might be reason to wonder what naughtiness might be going on under the hood with Firefox. Too bad. I've been using FF since Mozilla split up the components of Netscape. Other browsers seem like toys.
"Open Source, examine the code!" -- yeah, OK. I wouldn't know what I was looking at, and sort of thing we're worried about can be subtle and obscure (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf).
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So I have never heard of Brave until a couple of days ago here. I have downloaded it and will adopt it as my primary browser. It was helpful that I was formerly using Chrome, and all my bookmarks and extensions from Chrome seamlessly flowed over to Brave.
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Started using Brave yesterday and one oddity I've noticed is that Amazon is always the first link on the home page and stays there after only going there once
You can click on the x in the corner and it'll go away.
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Thank Deity, that Flash is finally dead!
Oh, boy!
I'm assisting a local manufacturing plant with their long delayed rollout of Win 10 pcs. Their current IT guy is overwhelmed, so I come in to do scut work of file transfers and basic prep, and troubleshooting various things. Anyway, turns out they have a bit of industrial control and monitoring software that depends on .......wait for it......FLASH player. The animation they used to get of some big storage/mixing vat, don work no more.
"Contact the vendor"
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Downloaded it this morning and gave it a go.
Seemed to import my bookmarks/favorites OK but it isn't playing well with my home page and email server.
I'll keep poking around at it for a while yet.
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Downloaded it this morning and gave it a go.
Seemed to import my bookmarks/favorites OK but it isn't playing well with my home page and email server.
I'll keep poking around at it for a while yet.
Many problems are due to overzealous blocking. Click on the little lion's face to the right of the URL bar and disable blocking for that site. Reload and see if that fixes it.
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Oh, boy!
I'm assisting a local manufacturing plant with their long delayed rollout of Win 10 pcs. Their current IT guy is overwhelmed, so I come in to do scut work of file transfers and basic prep, and troubleshooting various things. Anyway, turns out they have a bit of industrial control and monitoring software that depends on .......wait for it......FLASH player. The animation they used to get of some big storage/mixing vat, don work no more.
"Contact the vendor"
Tangent...what about all the CNC machines that still run DOS?
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Tangent...what about all the CNC machines that still run DOS?
How about how many systems still run Cobol
Edit: darn autocorrect
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Need a replacement for Thunderbird now I guess.
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How about how many systems still run Cobalt
Cobol?
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How about how many systems still run Cobalt
I think Ben can tell us all about the benefit of Cobalt futures.
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Cobol?
Autocorrect got me again
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Need a replacement for Thunderbird now I guess.
Thunderbird was split from Mozilla. not sure its status right now.
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Thunderbird was split from Mozilla. not sure its status right now.
From a year ago
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or mission: Thunderbird will still remain free and open source, with the same release schedule and people driving the project.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
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Tangent...what about all the CNC machines that still run DOS?
They still tick along.
3 or 4 years ago, a customer of mine that has a shop full of CNC machines handed me an old full height 5.25" 10 megabyte MFM Seagate hard disk. It came out of one of his machines. It might have been the machine he asked me about once: "Can you do anything with PDP-11?"
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They still tick along.
3 or 4 years ago, a customer of mine that has a shop full of CNC machines handed me an old full height 5.25" 10 megabyte MFM Seagate hard disk. It came out of one of his machines. It might have been the machine he asked me about one: "Can you do anything with PDP-11?"
See if it can play Oregon trail?
Can't think of anything else based on an honest to gods floppy right now.
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They still tick along.
3 or 4 years ago, a customer of mine that has a shop full of CNC machines handed me an old full height 5.25" 10 megabyte MFM Seagate hard disk. It came out of one of his machines. It might have been the machine he asked me about once: "Can you do anything with PDP-11?"
A friend of mine has a couple of CNC mills and asked me to get the machines up and going, so I had to recall my DOS 6.22 knowledge.
ETA: an e
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I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?
I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.
I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.
I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.
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I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?
I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.
I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.
I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.
Got a copy of Spinrite? Used to be the tool for aligning floppy discs and fixing borked hard drives.
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I still have old DOS printed manuals from way back. I imagine that's all available online now, no?
I sure liked a number of the renaming functions in DOS.
I still have the DOS System on 3 1/2" floppies.
I also have two of the old Compaq luggables with 5 1/4 drives and 20 and 40 MB seagates. I think all they need is new BIOS batteries. and I'm pretty sure I still have a DOS machine ready to go except for a monitor. I also have a bunch of printed reference works for a bunch of drives.... "landing zones," and the like, along with Floppy repair disks.
Zenith's version of DOS could install on larger hard drives than was the usual limit back in the day. (Fallible memory says 20MB C: was the limit 1990-ish, and you would use weird formatting software to get around that.)
MS DOS 4 broke that limit. DOS 5 was a whole lot more useful than 4. 6 had a reputation for being a disaster, but I never had a problem with it. 6.1 was the final M$ version.
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Got a copy of Spinrite? Used to be the tool for aligning floppy discs and fixing borked hard drives.
Aligning floppy drives, oh, I remember doing that, though it was slightly before my time getting paid for this.
And I remember full height Shugart 5.25 drives had a label with a strobe pattern on them, for tweaking speed.
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It's time to deplatform Mozilla.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
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It's time to deplatform Mozilla.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Yup. I'm done with Firefox. As mentioned elsewhere, I've been trying different browsers weekly on my new computer. I will probably try a couple more, like Waterfox, but I think I'm settled on Brave.
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I've switched to Brave about a couple of weeks ago and really can't tell any difference in daily use. Maybe Brave feels a little leaner because I don't have all those extensions installed.
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It's time to deplatform Mozilla.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Yup, they lost me with - But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality.
*expletive deleted*ck off Mozilla
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I've switched to Brave about a couple of weeks ago and really can't tell any difference in daily use. Maybe Brave feels a little leaner because I don't have all those extensions installed.
The only issues I've had, and it's because of my stricter security settings, is some sites won't display correctly or will lock up. Fox Business and twitchy are examples. For that I have just been opening them in Edge, and for other sites, I guess I simply don't care as much about the internet as I did, because if I can't see them correctly, I just move on. I might replace Edge with Waterfox as the "backup browser", though surprisingly, MS has not been nearly as SJW as the other tech giants.
Mozilla absolutely disappointed me more than any of the others. I guess I always expected the totalitarianism stuff from the likes of Google, but I've used Mozilla since the Netscape days, and more than any of the others, they always made a big show of how they were about internet freedom. They are turning into the worst of the bunch.
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I've heard it's a good idea to keep Google Chrome, and use it only when you visit a google website, and this will isolate them some from your info when you use Brave.
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I've heard it's a good idea to keep Google Chrome, and use it only when you visit a google website, and this will isolate them some from your info when you use Brave.
At the risk of a tangent, I'm looking at ways to still use some of the google conveniences, like google nav, but isolating the google tools from everything else I do. Maybe one of my old smart phones on wireless or something. That way I completely air gap it from my main computer and can take it in the car.
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One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.
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One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.
I have not seen this.
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One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.
Have had zero issues
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I've not used Brave that much but I've not noticed any performance issues at all with it.
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Ditto, to all the folks with no problem yet with Brave. No problems yet.
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No problems at all with Brave, I use it on a workstation and a tablet.
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One thing I have noticed is that the Brave browser sure freezes up a lot. It eventually recovers, but it takes several seconds and happens over and over.
I haven't noticed that, either, but I used to have that problem with Firefox.
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Well, crud, that must mean that I have a unique program or extension that is not playing well with Brave, and those can be the devil to track down.
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If I leave a window open and use another browser, when I come back it will do that once in a great while.
I should probably make it a point to shut my browsers down when not using them.
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No problems at all with Brave, I use it on a workstation and a tablet.
Ha! When I first glanced at this post I thought it said "I use it on a workstation and toilet" :rofl:
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Ha! When I first glanced at this post I thought it said "I use it on a workstation and toilet" :rofl:
(https://external-preview.redd.it/EQKOMNi26PhOHFChRhAKSs96CafboVuLZYZi-WN7v9g.jpg?auto=webp&s=93ece237511af588f57437944328f789175b3571)
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(https://external-preview.redd.it/EQKOMNi26PhOHFChRhAKSs96CafboVuLZYZi-WN7v9g.jpg?auto=webp&s=93ece237511af588f57437944328f789175b3571)
Gunkid's bathroom?
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My Brave browser has been fine. The only time I had any issues was when I needed to reboot my notebook as I had run a ton of stuff for days without a reboot and ya know how Windows can get...
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Previously seen image . . . .
Corporate middle-managers across the country approve . . . .
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Gunkid's bathroom?
Can't be. No flak vests lining the walls.
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^^^But you could transport all of that in a tactical wheelbarrow.
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I switched and love it. I thought it was time to replace my cheapest Walmart laptop possible but it turns out that without Firefox dragging down the thing it is fine without a full restart every day.
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I started getting a lot more serious about using alt-tech after Twitter banned Trump, immediately created a Parler, MeWe, ProtonMail, BitChite, and installed Brave. I've had zero issues using Brave.
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Got a copy of Spinrite? Used to be the tool for aligning floppy discs and fixing borked hard drives.
I think I've got a mess of "Disc Doctor" 5 1/4" floppies. Sounds like probably have the same functions. Want me to look?
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(https://external-preview.redd.it/EQKOMNi26PhOHFChRhAKSs96CafboVuLZYZi-WN7v9g.jpg?auto=webp&s=93ece237511af588f57437944328f789175b3571)
Please let there be tape over the webcam lens AND microphone.
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That' all 5VDC stuff, right? I mean, not like 25kV CRT stuff, right? Right? Hello? You there? Hello?