Had some issues with FireFox recently so I swapped to Brave, any advice?

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I'm assuming you mean desktop, but if you're also using it on mobile, you can go into the media playback settings and enable Background Play, which will let youtube etc keep playing while you're on another tab, or in another app, or have your screen off. There are also further settings to disable youtube annoyances like recommendations, likes/comments, etc.
 
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That explains everything. I always thought the context menu was too big for my liking.
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Another thing, If you're using Linux, having a separate .themes folder, and using the GTK_THEME environmental variable to apply it can make your theme consistent. For some odd reason, chromium does not apply a dark theme to the file opener.
 
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Sup' dude, I re-switched to Brave again last night out of frustration with FireFox. I love FireFox, but it's becoming bullshit with memory leaks among other annoyances.

For the most part, Brave is okay out of the box, but here's a couple things I suggest:
Install Ublock Origin & Sponsorblock.
Disable Brave Rewards. I hear some people that liked Brave Rewards in the past but I think it's pointless. Also remove the Brave Rewards icon from the omnibar.
Configure the new tab page to disable sponsored images (fullscreen ads). Also disable all the brave products for News, VPN, etc.
(Optional) Disable Brave's "AI assistant" Leo. It apparently works directly with local LLMs, so it might be useful depending on what you're doing. Otherwise it's just more AI slop.
Setup Brave Sync. I find it about as useful as FireFox Sync.

This feature is in other browsers too, but make the most of the Omnibar by adding other websites like YouTube. That way you can quickly search for videos without ever touching the homepage. If you would like to add this, you add a new site search, and give it the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
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I highly recommend you ditch Brave and use Ungoogled Chromium if you need/want a good chromium based browser:
  • No Google telemetry at all or ability for Google to call home
  • Does not support auto-update, all updates have to be manual
  • Deletes your session every time you open/close (if this annoys you, there's a flag to turn it off)
  • Should still support Manifest v2 extensions, uBlock Origin needs to be installed/sideloaded
  • Because it rips out everything Google from its source code, installing extensions can be a bitch, but is fixed with a plugin you can sideload separately. Keep in mind, you have to update all extensions manually
  • Looks, feels, acts just like Chrome, with no additional bullshit
  • NO BAT, Web 3, Brave shield shit
  • Very lightweight, should use less memory (in my experience it does)
You can build from source, or wait for an autist to build it for you (takes longer for Windows and Mac builds it seems). Overall, much better than Brave, but still Chromium shit.
 
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Rob Wolchek said:
I highly recommend you ditch Brave and use Ungoogled Chromium if you need/want a good chromium based browser:
  • No Google telemetry at all or ability for Google to call home
  • Does not support auto-update, all updates have to be manual
  • Deletes your session every time you open/close (if this annoys you, there's a flag to turn it off)
  • Should still support Manifest v2 extensions, uBlock Origin needs to be installed/sideloaded
  • Because it rips out everything Google from its source code, installing extensions can be a bitch, but is fixed with a plugin you can sideload separately. Keep in mind, you have to update all extensions manually
  • Looks, feels, acts just like Chrome, with no additional bullshit
  • NO BAT, Web 3, Brave shield shit
  • Very lightweight, should use less memory (in my experience it does)
You can build from source, or wait for an autist to build it for you (takes longer for Windows and Mac builds it seems). Overall, much better than Brave, but still Chromium shit.
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I know you mentioned that Manifest V2 extensions still work but in the case of uBlock Origin, from what I know, there is no support for custom filters because of "webrequest" being deprecated. Since custom filters can fill in the gaps that the built-in filters don't catch, it makes ad-blocking less effective. Though, I don't know how much it affects other people compared to my needs (I have a feeling most people don't even use custom filters).
 
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