I've always used Chrome but recently I've been trying out Brave and its been quite interesting. I still use chrome, but if they were to remove adblock i'd move for good.
Haven't used Firefox in years, would need to check what's new.
But I've been enjoying Brave. Built in blockers for ads and trackers, built in tor, and a very interesting rewards system to help content creators and honestly, so far I recommend it.
We have been down this road before in 2000, so we know it leads to the total opposite of "make development simpler".
When IE6 became the engine mono culture, it was the best.
But then it stopped innovating, because it didn't need to. It also pushed moves that were only for the good of Micorosoft, since they had monopoly, trying to make the web a less open place.
It was a pain to develop for, a pain to debug, and a capricious master.
Google has shown they can be very naughty as soon as they got power over something.
Nice to see some advocacy for brave here. With the built-in crypto turned off (not for me), it’s a really nice browsing experience that has done a good job keeping up with upstream improvements in chromium. I’ve used the developer tools in brave at work for years now and have no issue seeing things at parity with developers on my team using chrome.
I personally as an end user can not tell the difference. I have both installed and use firefox almost all the time for home usage. For work I use chrome. Day to day usage is nearly identical. There are a few bits here and there on some pages where someone did something chrome specific. But that is rarely an issue. If I switched it out either way on all of my families computers I doubt they would notice. Never once have I got a call from a family member saying "I need browser X". For dev usage chrome is slightly better, but that is just an opinion. Even that is not that big of deal anymore as many people are just using transpilers and their JS is some sort of mangled form out of that. Also they should peal off a few bucks and donate to Mozilla or Mozilla will always be bound to google.
