Continuing the discussion from Mullvad Browser : [image] Mullvad Browser If we’re only evaluating the order based on the technical privacy and security features, and the UX differences are clearly described and left up to user choice, then the proposed order in the PR makes the most sense to me I…

Reordering Firefox and Brave was never up for discussion in that thread at all, so we simply did not consider it, but we can certainly discuss it here. I don’t think it has been demonstrated how Brave is better than Firefox in any meaningful privacy-related way. From our perspective they provide ab…

[image] jonah: I don’t think it has been demonstrated how Brave is better than Firefox in any meaningful privacy-related way. This may be subjective, or even technically incorrect, but as far as default settings are concerned, Brave feels like it has better defaults. I guess it’s mainly becau…

So if we were ordering based on defaults or easiness to use/config I don’t think it makes sense to order it like that. I do believe that Brave has better defaults, is easier to configure, and has a better user experience overall, but that doesn’t mean that the privacy it provides is better than …

The thing is Firefox+Arkenfox is the gold standard (short of Tor Browser and perhaps Mullvad Browser), but Arkenfox is not easy for an unskilled person to set up. It seems to me that Firefox has a higher ceiling for potential privacy hardening, but out of the box it has worse defaults than Brave. R…

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