[icegreentea2]

Does Brave keep these features that Firefox dropped? I know that Chromium doesn't (FTP, RSS, Bookmark Description).

You appear to have a choice between a browsers with feature parity, except one of them supports your privacy more.

Like "this type of reasoning" is what happens whenever you reach a point where you get resource constrained (even Chrome/Chromium has to pick how to allocate their resources). Eventually you need to pick what to work on, and what to keep maintaining.

[dandellion]

They don't have those features either, so then I have to look at other features. Brave comes with a pretty good ad blocker out of the box (whereas in Firefox I have to install uBlock) it's also very explicit about the ads it shows, keeps a log, allows to opt out individually or altogether, and seems to stay away from shady features like Floc. To be honest, I'm not too convinced the change in paradigm will be an actual improvement over the old one, but I appreciate the transparency of the system. Some web applications that I use frequently work noticeably better in Chromium/Brave than in Firefox and in the end I want a good balance between ideals and quality of life.

To be honest the main reason I have to keep Firefox as my default browser is that I'm used to the developer tools and I like them better than Chrome's. But it's gotten to the point where I have to tell myself that it wouldn't make any sense to drop those, but I thought the same when they dropped all the other features, so I find it harder and harder to stay optimistic.

[icegreentea2]

That's fair.

I haven't used Brave at all. I can appreciate wanting the ad-blocker being built in. I guess I've been using ad-block add-ons since... they first existed (I remember being excited about FF 2.0), so I'm actually kinda leary of built in ad-blockers (alignment of interests and all), but I can also appreciate with Brave is trying to do with BAT and all.

I guess I naturally stick with FF (despite being annoyed by many of their changes) since I can (or at least I think I do) appreciate the magnitude of what they're trying to do, as well as the realize that while it's okay to hold them to a higher standard, what it feels like is that a lot of people hold FF/Mozilla to a really high standard, and then Chrome/Chromium to different (typically lower) standard, and when FF comes short of their high standards, they just switch to Chrome/Chromium without actually directly comparing the two browsers to each other. Like if FF can't be the fantasy magical piece of software they want, they may as well just use Chrome/Chromium.

Rant over.

I hope FF keeps the dev-tools. I'd be in a pickle too if they went away.