Posted on 08/04/2019 11:04:45 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
I just downloaded and started using Brave. All I've done is make it the default browser and import bookmarks from Chrome. Are there any other settings I should know about or addons to make it run better? In their addons they recommended Microsoft Edge but since I've never used it before I don't see why I would be using it now. Should I add that on for some reason?
I am also using AdGuard 7.0, which I installed before Brave. Is the built in ad blocker for Brave good enough to make AdGuard redundant? I've never had any problems with Chrome but I want to get away from Google as much as I can. I have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine and I'm hoping this is a worthy replacement.
It’s OK. The main problem I have with it is You Tube vids, as well as any vids I save off my car’s dash cams are zoomed in.
I just went to Youtube and watched a short video. Didn’t look any different than before. I don’t ever download off of Youtube but I do download a lot of torrents. First one I tried to download saved it to my downloads instead of opening it up in Utorrent. That was annoying. I’ll have to see if a Utorrent setting got overridden.
I’ve been using Brave for over a year and no problems.
I use both Brave and duckduckgo.
Brave is *way* better than firefox, edge or IE.
I really like duckduckgo a lot but am not sure it provides the same search coverage that Goolag does.
Been using Brave for over a year...only current problem I have with it is playing Amazon Prime music streams. It’s Ad blocking ability is great if fully implemented “Shields Up Mode”...I wouldn’t add a bunch of extension to it as that opens you up to privacy issues again.
If you want to get into cryptocurrencies (and make a donation to FR by browsing to FR) use the Brave “Rewards” feature and turn on payments for FR.
Full disclosure...I use Brave as a “secondary browser” to my Mac Safari browser and put the sketchy/ad laden sites I need to go to in it (FaceBook, Yahoo, etc.). Safari is still more compatible with sites than Brave, but Brave is coming along fast.
Been using Brave since it first came out, and love it.
Brave has made a couple improvements which made it better (managing favorites, for instance).
I do use Geek Squad when I have computer problems (none related to Brave) and the agents have been (surprisingly to me) unfamiliar with Brave.
One agent though when remotely on my computer for a few minutes loved Brave and said he was going to start using it.
>>First one I tried to download saved it to my downloads instead of opening it up in Utorrent.
Their built in “web torrent” extension is enabled by default. You can turn it off in Settings.
shouldn’t be zoomed in. Hit control and the mouse wheel to adjust what zoom you want.
It is imbedded videos that are a problem
They are treated like adds by brave and are blocked
I switched the machine I am on to Brave a few days ago.
Some things I don’t like:
Double posts on FR skyrocketed.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to select an image from a webpage and send it via email and there is no send a link via email function.
PITA to have to save an image and then send it.
I switched the machine I am on to Brave a few days ago.
Some things I don’t like:
Double posts on FR skyrocketed.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to select an image from a webpage and send it via email and there is no send a link via email function.
PITA to have to save an image and then send it.
Been using Brave since it first came out. I’ve heard there might be issues with importing bookmarks, so I haven’t. Only thing I wonder about is a lot of the video things on Fox don’t play. Not sure why except that they are some other format other than U tub.....
That’s my only complaint. I’m used to doing copy of an Earl... and then pasting into email, so I don’t miss whatever button someone might be.
Brave has made a couple improvements which made it better (managing favorites, for instance).
Gonna take a few day on getting used too it, like what I see , have to figure out how to set my home-page....
I have been using it intermittently for a year or so. It is OK, and I’d probably like it if it did a few things differently. But I have a particular way that I use the internet, and it just does not work the way I like. If I had started out with it, I probably wouldn’t mind, but a twenty year habit is hard to break.
I’ve been using it on my iPhone as well as desktop since it came out. They must have done an update for the phone app recently because now all the settings options have migrated from the upper left part of the app to the lower right.
6 months or so. Barely use chrome or edge.
I use Brave and am happy with it...less pop ups on the news sites.
I use brave exclusively for phone and computer at work and home for my own uses.
No issues, the ad blocking is great, some websites cry because they want that adblock removed, I just skip the page then and don’t go back.
Everything that I can block is blocked, tracking, java, etc. with brave.
I love it.
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