I like brave as browser (mostly, much shitcoins and much bloat...) but I don't like the idea of solving dependency from google (chromium) with another company that packages the browser for you. To much possibility to be rugged as user; theres to little an individual can do to audit whats going on or fork it if necessary.
Mozilla is even worse in some ways, the only good thing of firefox is that is fully open source (from the engine to the telemetry...) and is easier to hack with and build your own version; as a user, I like to have this option in case companies want to do something harmful and a fork of the codebase is required.
On gentoo on a machine that build firefox in ~4 hours, chromium builds in at least ~15 hours, even a lot more in some configurations.
The resources neccessary to develop chromium are so much that to fork it (rebasing upstream on every release) it is necessary "another google" (like what microsoft and brave do).
Some "distributions" of "minimal-patched-chromium" exists, but they often are discontinued and they always feel they would need 100 more people working on just to keep up with most basic features and bugfix.
But chromium in the end seems "better"; more secure, more fast, more good than firefox.
I dont know, I think we really need better options for web browsing, maybe something integrated with nostr, bitcoin and with a "freedom tech" approach.
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