
Yesterday I tried out other Linux internet browsers. I love Brave, but perhaps it isn’t the best browser anymore.
You have to regularly challenge the tools that you use, and see if there are more efficient tools. This goes back to Stephen Coveys “Sharpen the saw.” You want to work with the most effective tool available.
So I spent several hours testing every Linux browser available to me. I tested about six of them.
- Mozilla Firefox: Terrible. Didn’t render pages properly.
- Chromium: Looks just like Chrome. This one performed the best next to Brave
- GNOME Web: Terrible
- Epiphany: Terrible
- GNU IceCat: Terrible
- Ephemeral: Terrible
These were all the internet browsers available in Nobara Linux. I didn’t want to try out more. When I say terrible they didn’t render pages, or didn’t even work. I would put in a URL address and it wouldn’t display the page. That is not acceptable.
They were also slower than Brave. Brave was instant. They had less features and privacy and in every way were inferior to Brave. It is always good to have competition but to call these competition is laughable. There is nothing competitive about these but Chromium.
I uninstalled them after using them. I don’t want to mess with the bother of updates for software that I won’t use. That is the other nice thing about Linux. When you install it through the app store that is a local in the taskbar you don’t have to worry about doing updates. This is the model that Mac/Windows are using that store apps take care of themselves. The day of the old uninstaller is now long past. Yes!
I was so pleased when I moved to Linux as my primary computer that Brave worked exactly the same way. It is the main application that I use to do my job in IT. It is such a pleasure to not have regular crashes and troubleshooting like I did with every Mac/Windows system that I have ever used.