Consider ranking Brave above Firefox

Brave uses Chromium, and its security benefits over Gecko give it greater resilience to threats, allowing it to enforce privacy better than Firefox.

I understand the ideological reason that using Firefox stands up against the Chromium monopoly. However, I don’t really care for Mozilla being the one to compete against Google, especially in light of their recent decisions. I would want to root for something like Servo or Ladybird, and PG can simply encourage others to do so.

I’m not asking Firefox to be removed, the browsers page can say something like

We recommend Brave for general browsing, and Firefox if you want to stand against Google’s monopoly in the browser engine industry.

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We do not rank one specific browser over another.

Instead, Privacy Guides takes the approach of tailoring them to specific usage case. The introduction states:

These are our currently recommended desktop web browsers and configurations for standard/non-anonymous browsing. We recommend Mullvad Browser if you are focused on strong privacy protections and anti-fingerprinting out of the box, Firefox for casual internet browsers looking for a good alternative to Google Chrome, and Brave if you need Chromium browser compatibility.

We can make this blurb more specific if that is what you are proposing?

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Yeah I would like Brave’s use case to be for those casual internet browsers, and Firefox’s usecase to be for if you really don’t want to support Chromium.

What exactly makes Firefox less recommended on desktop? I was under the impression that it’s just an issue with the Android version that doesn’t have site isolation.

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Its easier to exploit.

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Not to be a contrarian, but is there a more recent source than this?

I see this claim of Firefox being easier to exploit multiple times, but every single time the source is that same obscure blog post.

It is now 4 years old. Is it really fair to pretend FF hasn’t improved in that time?

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It’s not obscure. It lists its sources, which you can check for yourself - even in 2026.

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Yes, and those sources are even older. Some even lead to dead links.

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Most links still work fine. Many of the sources simply link to Mozilla’s or Chromium’s issue tracker, where you can see what has changed and what hasn’t, so I don’t really see what your problem is.

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