For people who are choosing between Librewolf and Brave
What Librewolf can do (but Brave can’t):
- Be run in a portable form
- Duplicate / manage user profiles easily
- Use a self‑hosted sync server
- Install most browser plugins on mobile (e.g. Iceraven)
- Use containers to separate cookies
- Store browser history permanently
What Brave can do (but Librewolf can’t):
- Provide a better mobile user experience, including:
- smoother animations
- quick switching between tabs (tab icon feature)
- Translate web pages on mobile devices
don’t use brave for anything; brave is a pro crypto ad infested slop owned by a homophobic bigot
Well at least it is open source, I guess the best alternative for people who want a chromium based browser with sync feature
Not necessarily. With the awful things about Brave, if I need a chromium based browser I’ll absolutely go non-OSS and use Vivaldi. It’s a million miles better, and it’s not worth supporting Brave just to say you’re still using an open source browser.
As a Vivaldi user, I found that no other browser works as well for me, as Vivaldi does. I can’t imagine life without browser workspaces, sync, vertical tabs on the desktop, and a mobile tab bar at the bottom.
The closest alternative is either Floorp or Zen, with mobile Firefox and Sync, but I found Vivaldi is just smoother and a better and more well-integrated user experience for me.
I might be wrong, but search results gives “Vivaldi is not entirely open source”
It’s not open source. I was saying, if you must use chrome based browsers, suck it up and use non-OSS, because Brave is just awful in so many ways.
sorry, non open source is not acceptable in my view