Brave Browser: Ousted Mozilla CEO Is Changing the Web Again

The New American ^ | 29 January 2016 | C. Mitchell Shaw

[Baynative]

Thank you for this link. I am so frustrated with my old PC I have found a reconditioned laptop source that loads them with Windows 7. I’m looking forward to going back to a good working program and I’ll do it with this browser.

[hoagy62]

I decided to download and give it a shot. I’m running it now, in facy. Very minimalist in appearance. Seems to be pretty fast. I’ll try it on a few differenty sites I use to see how it reacts.

[Elderberry]

Its fast. No ads. No popups.

But its bare bones. No home page. No library. No bookmarks.

Im sure the final version will have those capabilities.

[Dante3]

Later

[CyberAnt]

Sounds promising .. I’ll keep looking for the launch.

[EDINVA]

“Dumped Firefox after Eich’s ouster.”

same here .. am downloading Brave as I post!!!

[paul544]

I just downloaded it and am using it now... Fast as all !#$%.

[hoagy62]

What Elderberry said is exactly right. Fast as can be, but bare bones.

I think I mnight be using this when it is officially released.
I like it!

[A Cyrenian]

Does it have bookmarks? How about menu bar?

[SunkenCiv]

It's amazing how fast a page loads when you strip away everything but the real content... Browse Safer... Brave blocks harmful advertising... redirects sites to HTTPS... blocks Tracking Pixels and Tracking Cookies... is open source... iOS... OS X / Windows / Linux... Android

[Blennos]

I also use Pale Moon. It has the flavor of the old Firefox — before it was corrupted by the leftist clique.

[paul544]

Not yet... It’s not even beta yet.. Can’t import anything.

[usconservative]

News sites, search engines, social networks, and a plethora of other free web services have to make money on advertising or they can't stay free. The alternative is to move to a subscription-based model where users pay to use those sites. For most users, that is not preferable.

Wrong. Produce a QUALITY product that people WANT to consume that is free of them being "the product" and they'll pay a nominal, reasonable fee to access it.

Proof?

Netflix. Amazon Prime (for Music, books and video.) Spotify (commercial free version.) Hulu (commercial free version.)

All of the above are THRIVING as paid for subscription models. Granted, Netflix doesn't have a lower cost "commercial supported" version like Hulu and Spotify do at a lower cost, however Hulu and Spotify enjoy a substantial "commercial free" subscriber base and both are experiencing growth.

That's all the proof anyone should need that "subscription models" at nominal cost where quality content is delivered are successful.

(I subscribe to all four of the above, btw. Far cheaper than Cable TV and high quality content from all four.)

[A Cyrenian]

Ok - thanks for the info.

I'll keep an eye out for any updates.

[usconservative]

I just downloaded and installed it after reading this thread.

WOW it's fast. FR has never been this fast before and I have a 100mb internet connection.

[CJ Wolf]

maybe I will be able to read brightbart. lol

[SoFloFreeper]

oh yeah, i went to breitbart.com too...and it was a much better experience.

i quit going there because of all the CRAP that came up...now you can go on the brave browser and actually see the content.

[__rvx86]

None of the major browsers have run on NT 5.x for a while now...at this point, even Windows XP, 2003(XP_AMD64) support is entirely by accident (using libc/c++ 10-11 instead of the current version—think it’s at 15 now)

[VideoDoctor]

I’m running a Beta Version now.

So far what's your opinion?

[NoCmpromiz]

Keep an eye on this..