Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" browser? Now in a sort of wide beta, I'm personally impressed and am using it as my main browser. At least it's blindingly fast and sound works out of the box and many of the early version quirks have been obviated. -- Bill Henderson <billh@sdf.org> http://inconnu.freeshell.org/Sig/slackware.jpg
On 2017-09-02 05:22 AM, Slack Rat via talk wrote:
Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" browser?
Aside from my personal issues with Brendan Eich, I find Brave to be rather slow. The problem's not my machine, as I'm running a 4 GHz quad core with 32 GB RAM. It also doesn't show favicons on page tabs, so it's dead to me. Back to Firefox I go! Stewart
I just installed it yesterday, and it seems much faster than Firefox and Chrome. I'll play with it some more. There seems to be a lack of plugins, but the only one I wanted was ad-block plus, which seems to be built-in. Don On 3 September 2017 at 20:36, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2017-09-02 05:22 AM, Slack Rat via talk wrote:
Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" browser?
Aside from my personal issues with Brendan Eich, I find Brave to be rather slow. The problem's not my machine, as I'm running a 4 GHz quad core with 32 GB RAM. It also doesn't show favicons on page tabs, so it's dead to me. Back to Firefox I go!
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Slack Rat via talk wrote:
Does anyone have any comments on Brendan Eich's new "Brave" browser?
Now in a sort of wide beta, I'm personally impressed and am using it as my main browser.
At least it's blindingly fast and sound works out of the box and many of the early version quirks have been obviated.
It's a little to flakey right now to be used as my main browser and Chrome and Firefox Developer Edition have all the dev tools I need to do my job. My favorite thing is Brave Payments[0] as a way of paying for good content. Personally I see myself paying a percentage of $10 a week to the websites I visit instead of for each individual website. It's a pay structure like Spotify or Netflix but fairer for the content creator. Spotify's payment system is setup in a way that your money doesn't go to the artist you listen to but it a huge pot which is split out to all the artists. This gives popular artists a large share of the profits and hurts the smaller acts. Netflix is worse but that because of the film industry as a whole. It seems that content creators want to go the HBO and Disney route where you pay for every website you visit, which is a little crazy IMHO. Hopefully Brave will come out with a plugin for all the major browsers to use their payment system across all platforms and the content creators can advertise it as a way of supporting their sites. But I'm an obvious cloud-in-the-sky Hipster. [0]: <https://brave.com/publishers/>
On 2017-09-05 09:57 AM, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk wrote:
My favourite thing is Brave Payments[0] as a way of paying for good content. Personally I see myself paying a percentage of $10 a week to the websites I visit instead of for each individual website.
This is exactly the model that Flattr — https://flattr.com/ — uses. I can't see people switching browser just to use it. Flattr hasn't been very successful in the seven years it's been around. Stewart
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