Gonna be honest...after using Firefox almost exclusively for the last 10 years whenever I had a choice, I'm ready to give up on it. I don't expect all the bells and whistles (and privacy compromises) of the big commercial browsers, but Firefox has decided to take a path that is actively awful. It's not just awful on Wikipedia (where I know logged-in users with lots of preferences and scripts are always going to be slow), it is awful on every website I go to, and it crashes on a multiple-times-a-day basis. It does this on all three of my computers. I've been trying to stay loyal and look at the bigger "free knowledge" bit...but I have had six crashes today and I'm done. I hear this a lot from people I know outside of Wikimedia, and I've been told its unreliability is why several companies have decided against adding it (or have removed it) as an acceptable alternate browser.
So no, I do not think it would be a good idea for anyone, let alone the Wikimedia Foundation, to advocate on behalf of this software.
Risker/Anne
On 3 September 2017 at 03:22, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
After Firefox and Chromium, there's a bunch of open source web browsers listed on [2], but a brief spot check showed many as being Linux only (or outdated Mac builds). One that looked promising was Brave[3], though it's a relatively new browser and I would need to do more research regarding #3.
I've been using Brave for a couple of months occasionally, and it seems to work pretty well. It has (some) adblocking in default config, and some other privacy-enhancing settings, which are probably not very important for Wikimedia sites but may either break some other sites or make them bearable :) It's pretty young, so I don't think we can say much about security record yet - IIRC it's based on Chromium, and it's updated pretty frequently, and it's easy to use (though the UI might be a bit more spartan then others for now, and not many extensions available - but for ex-IE users it may not be an issue).
-- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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