No, it isn't.
You literally have absolutely zero idea what you are talking about. Brave is a Chromium-based browser like Edge, so it has exactly the same compatibility with "the web" as Chrome and Edge. You can call it "Chromium Brave" if that makes you feel better, since that's literally what it is.
That date can't be right. I remember running Netscape at work when it was a current product, and I didn't start working here until 2006.Just how long have you not been paying attention?
Netscape died over 19 years ago in 2003. That's three years before the introduction of the first Intel Mac.
Netscape - Wikipedia
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Any Chrome-based browser is the best browser for compatibility. It doesn't need to be Chrome. If you like Chrome and don't care about data mining, then it's just like any other browser.
Not necessarily. Brave works great on pretty much all websites... but Google Docs (surprise surprise). It's difficult for competition when the company that has the largest market share in search and internet services also have the largest market share if internet browser and smartphone platform.
Brave has built in ad blocking and fingerprinting. If a website is not working properly, it's probably because of these and should be disabled, which can be done on a per website basis. My friend uses Brave with Google Docs with zero issues and she just moved from Chrome.
I’ll be honest when I’m working I don’t really think about the browser. I’m just working.
Brave is built on the Chromium engine, but unlike Chrome, it does not support 3rd party cookies. Also since both Microsoft and Google's business model includes user tracking, whether we're talking ads from google, or MS sending your usage in windows back to the mothership, using Edge and Chrome gives them an inside track to your details
Make no difference now. That was a long time ago. Chromium has advanced into the stratosphere, and Webkit is an absolute disaster. Are you familiar with webkit bug tracking at all? I'm sure you're not. Webkit is an embarrassment today.
No, some people who read too many internet articles are duped into thinking this what privacy is.
appleinsider.com
He has no idea what he's talking about, so what he told you is confusion and delusion, not clarification. Brave is literally Chrome, because it's using the open-sourced Chromium from Google, but with all of the Googleyness stripped out of it. So it's compatible with anything Google Chrome is ... because it's essentially Google Chrome.
Chrome installs utter nonsense all over the Mac that requires deep diving to search for everything if you want to remove it. Which is why I'd recommend Edge or Brave over Chrome. Chrome uses way more RAM than Edge or Brave because of all this extra garbage.
not sure how up to date the page is but it identified a real issue with Chrome's Keystone updater and high CPU usage.
Older still, so I'm not sure if it still applies, is Chrome hijacking the VideoToolBox framework and crashing Final Cut Pro X and some other software.
Chrome causing Final Cut Pro X to slow down, freeze, and crash | AppleInsider
Chrome is causing Final Cut Pro X to become unresponsive and crash for some users by hogging video encoding frameworks, a noted video editor has claimed on Twitter.
It's a first step into privacy. Not the end of the road. Doing nothing for your privacy certainly doesn't do anything for your privacy. Also not caring about your privacy being taken away is why it's being taken away in the first place. Just because you couldn't care less doesn't make it unimportant.
I noticed that too. But since Google has removed support for the Chrome App Store, it isn't as bad (relatively speaking) as it used to be.
Before IE it was Netscape that ruled the internet, with the free Mozilla browser based on the academic Mosaic code. It arguably created it, in popular use, not that someone else like MS wouldn't have gotten to it. Mozilla's code base became Firefox. MS ALSO used Mosaic to build IE.
I tend to pay attention. I work from home with a work issued MBP. It sits next to my own Macs, but I use my employer's VPN for work. That means anything personal passes through my employer's network. Vivaldi, which I use personally, allows me to share my profile across computers. So anything personal I may be doing on my employer MBP is done in Vivaldi.
