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It depends. Brave is really private out of the box, plus being a Chromium browser, it has all the performance benefits you'd expect from a Chromium browser. Firefox has the advantages and disadvantages of engine independence. It can be pushed even further than Brave in terms of "privacy hardness" but also has the downsides.
shab-re. •• Edited. no, there are 4 browser engines that I know of. Blink used by chromium and chromium based browsers. Quantum/Gecko used by firefox and firefox based browsers. Webkit used by Safari and Epiphany browser (only on mac os and linux respectively) Goanna used by Pale Moon. and then there's lynx and surf.
besides firefox -no-remote another parameter is firefox -no-xshm which reveals the technique used to make it work. X11 shared memory is an interprocess communication technique which can be used by all applications connected to a given x server session. It can be used to perform drag & drop, and other kind of desktop interaction.
Doomking36. •. For MacOS/iOS, Orion browser has built-in adblocker that's better than any other browser that I have tested on with a perfect score of 100%. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi, Google Chrome with Ublock Origin installed on all of them didn't get 100%. It can also install extensions/addons from either chrome web store or mozilla addons ...
The Windows version of Firefox may be a better option (unless you truly need to test some Firefox functionality that is specific to Ubuntu or Linux-in-general). The PPA mentioned in the other answer is a valid alternative as well.
firefox uses the system to render text, chrome does it it self, that is why text looks better on firefox a lot of the time. firefox does not have PWA support. you can customize firefox a lot more then chrome like by a huge amount. Today, not so much. As Firefox have incorporated a lot of google chromium stuff into it.
Firefox also allows its sync feature to integrated in any browser that means firefox sync can be integrated in chromium itself. Firefox also has better GPU rendering software called webrender which is based on servo experimental browser a rust based experimental browser made by Mozilla themselves.
As far as I see in the ongoing development for 22.04 Jammy, Firefox is a Snap package. The related Deb package in apt is just a shortcut/link to the that snap version.
Seamonkey is also cool, runs exceptionally well on old machines with weaker hardware, specially if you install Linux. (Also runs fine on Win7 and even XP) I have tried waterfox and librewolf only and both are ok i use waterfox because it gets updated faster i think. The hard fork, Pale Moon.
Closest solutions are: Firefox Focus. Systemwide adblocker such as AdGuard Pro or NextDNS. 6. [deleted] • 2 yr. ago. Orion supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions on iOS, including uBO. It’s still in early development, but, incredibly, it actually works really well. Not sure if it’s yet suitable as a daily driver.