Because vanilla Firefox has to be tinkered with to get the best out of it and the average user is not able to do it
In what way?
I switched recently to Librewolf, but as a long time Firefox user (of which Librewolf is a fork anyway) it didn't seem unusable out of the box. There are some settings for privacy and studies etc you mght want to change, but they are all very obvious in the GUI preferences.
I did personally go into about:config to set a few things, like not allowing searches from the address bar because I'm weird, but what makes Firefox no good for the average user?
The typical conversation I have is:
and that's where I loose most of the people, that extra step.
Me and you can go down on the about:config all day long to dissect every aspect of privacy we care about. For the other 90% of people, even just going to Mozilla extensions manager and downloading u-Block Origin is too much.
Bear-proof trash can theorem...
I want to use the same browser on desktop and mobile, but Firefox doesn’t support ad-blocking on iOS.
There are no ads in my Firefox. Is it because of DNS?
Also simply compatibility, some sites just don't work (or dont work well) on Firefox or librewolf, thats one key reason I go back to brave for a lot of things.
They won't make it compatible if they don't have Firefox users.
Agreed, but I also have work to do. On my personal PC at home I use librewolf, as for most casual browsing its fine.
But the question was why do people use brave over Firefox and my answer simply is cos it doesn't have the functionality i need. I dunno about your boss but if I say to mine "I didn't do my job cos my browser of choice doesn't work" I don't reckon I'll stay employed for long.
Firefox still doesn't have tab groups on mobile
You got downvoted but it is true, it doesn't while other browsers do, and block ads which is a nice plus.
Firefox offers extension support and that is a reason to forgive it a lot of lacks... But we shouldn't be conformist about the fact that the Android/iOS client needs a lot of work.
It's just weird that the post asks people why they use Brave over Firefox/Librewolf and I get downvoted for giving an honest answer.
If Firefox added tab groups for mobile I'd start the (unfortunately slow) transition over to a fork that respects privacy by default.
But unfortunately, Mozilla keeps insisting that it's "hard to make tab groups in a way that's intuitive and efficient for the end user" when Chromium already has that as an example. So I still use Brave, because I need my tab groups.
I got my dad to try Firefox and he said it drained his phone battery like no tomorrow, so now he uses brave because it doesn't
I've been using Firefox for years on my phone with no such problems, so I can't exactly verify what he's saying
It’s possible dad was lying.
I can't speak to Brave, but a lot of us have been burned by Firefox before.
cause most people just google a chrome alternative. they dont do research. brave gives them a surafce level adblocking, and they feel fine with it.
Doesn't Firefox still have brand recognition though? I'd have thought even people who answer "google" to "what browser do you use" would have heard of firefox, and therefore looked it up rather than using the neurons to ask, "what alternative browsers are there?"
Because Brave is by default what Firefox is when you install Librewolf instead - and more. And you can refuse to see that and be wrong about it, I don't care. I use Librewolf because I want to, I still think it's not the better browser.
For me, it’s because I’m a web developer and most people use chrome. I have to run my code on a browser that is close to what people will really use. I have noticed a blind spot recently where I assumed another project I’m working on is similar, but that one I think has more Firefox users. Likely I’ll have to change my preference by project.
Also, hot take, Chromium is actually a very good browser aside from all google’s nonsense. I’ve had to turn to list virtualization to handle large lists of elements, but I noticed Chromium was much more forgiving of these lists compared to safari. Admittedly I need to do more Firefox testing.
I think people get too caught up on which browser is the best. Probably a good thing we have both brave and Firefox as options. I know brave has done its own share of nonsense, but it’s still miles better than chrome.
Don't look at me, I've been an Opera fan for more years than I care to admit.
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