I like it but it's got quirks that keep me using Firefox and Chrome. So while they can certainly challenge Google, (not like Duck Duck isn't already) is their search engine any good?
I use Brave on mobile because Mozilla refuses to add Pull Down to Refresh to anything but the Firefox nightly beta builds, which can be woefully unstable. Brave works pretty well in mobile. No need on the desktop, as Firefox just does everything. As far as search, who knows? DDG still uses Bing to supplement their own results, so it's not like it's easy to catch up to Google. The question for most probably will be how it compares to DDG, not to Google, because that's where the first wave of potential converts are
Pull down to reload is another one of those annoying anti-features that overload the already stupidly invisible UI, so that you fall over it all the time... which is "good", because otherwise you'd never find it.
Aka Apple "simplicity" (read "cumbersomeness").
I prefer a sane UI. Finger-sized physical buttons that tell you when something got triggered, and context switches that never ever change anything below your finger.
I don't find it problematic. It takes effort to trigger in Safari and in Chromium based browsers. Yes, it's invisible and developers can do a better job of showcasing gestures, but gestures dramatically improve the mobile experience when done right and that is one of them, particularly on large screens where the refresh button may be somewhere out of reach of your thumb
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
Does anyone actually use Brave ? (Score:1)
I like it but it's got quirks that keep me using Firefox and Chrome. So while they can certainly challenge Google, (not like Duck Duck isn't already) is their search engine any good?
Re:Does anyone actually use Brave ? (Score:2)
Re: Does anyone actually use Brave ? (Score:1)
Pull down to reload is another one of those annoying anti-features that overload the already stupidly invisible UI, so that you fall over it all the time... which is "good", because otherwise you'd never find it.
Aka Apple "simplicity" (read "cumbersomeness").
I prefer a sane UI. Finger-sized physical buttons that tell you when something got triggered, and context switches that never ever change anything below your finger.
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