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1 [1]Kev Quirk 2 3 • [2]Home 4 • [3]About 5 • [4]Contact 6 • [5]Sitemap 7 • [6]RSS 8 • [7]Search 9 10 I Switched to Brave Browser 11 12 28 September 2026 | 3 min read 13 14 I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year 15 now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and [8]my 16 initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and it [9]raised my heckles even more. 17 Then I had a [10]long old whinge about how fucked they seem to be. 18 19 [11]I took Vivaldi for a spin, but I couldn't get used to it. It just tries to 20 do too much, and has way too much going on with the UI, and dark/light theme 21 switching still [12]doesn't work despite it apparently being fixed. So I made 22 my peace with Firefox and stuck with it. 23 24 I kept Vivaldi on my machine as a backup, and over the last 6 months or so, 25 I've found myself having to open it more and more due to something not working 26 in Firefox. This was far from a daily occurrence, but it happened often enough 27 for it to become annoying. But I still couldn't use Vivaldi full time. 28 29 It's worth stating that things not working isn't the fault of Firefox. It's 30 developers not testing their web apps with Firefox, since it has such a small 31 market share. 32 33 Switching to Brave 34 35 I decided to install Brave a couple months ago just to see how things went. I 36 had some messing around to do up front, like hiding all the crypto and AI 37 nonsense, but once that was gone, it's been fine. 38 39 Everything works how I expect, both on Ubuntu and Android. The UI is similar to 40 Firefox, and most importantly, it doesn't try to boil the ocean. I renders 41 webpages, then gets out of my way. I don't need it to check RSS feeds, or 42 emails, or have toolbars on every edge of the screen. Even dark mode switching 43 works! 44 45 I haven't felt the need to open Firefox since starting this exeperiment, so I 46 think Brave is gonna stick. 47 48 The elephant in the room 49 50 Yes yes yes. Brave was founded by an [13]absolute scumbag. But there's scumbags 51 everywhere, in all walks of life. Contrary to what some people on the internet 52 will say, my use of Brave doesn't mean I agree with, or support, Bendan Eich's 53 world views. I consider his personal views to be separate from Brave. 54 55 You may disagree, and that's fine. But Brave is objectively a good piece of 56 software that does what I need it to do, and does it well. So I'm gonna 57 continue using it for the forseable future. If Firefox get their act together 58 and become relevant again, I may jump back, but for now it will remain my 59 secondary browser. 60 61 I do still have Vivaldi installed too. So I will continue to check in on it now 62 and then, and if I decide they're on a par with Brave on Linux (mainly light/ 63 dark theme switching is what's missing), then I'll definitely make the switch 64 as I feel their moral compass is far more aligned with my own. 65 66 [14]Opinion [15]Technology 67 68 [16] Reply by email 69 70 Comments 71 72 [17]Load comments 73 74 Subscribe for more! 75 76 You don't have to keep coming back here to read my latest waffle. There's a 77 couple of ways to subscribe to receive updates whenever I publish new content. 78 79 [18] Subscribe via RSS [19] Subscribe via email 80 81 ⬅ The one before 82 [20] The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook 83 84 Up next ➡ 85 [21] One Year 86 87 © 2026 Kev Quirk 88 89 [22]Colophon | [23]Disclaimer | [24]Privacy 90 91 92 References: 93 94 [1] https://kevquirk.com/ 95 [2] https://kevquirk.com/ 96 [3] https://kevquirk.com/about 97 [4] https://kevquirk.com/contact 98 [5] https://kevquirk.com/sitemap 99 [6] https://kevquirk.com/feed 100 [7] https://kevquirk.com/discover 101 [8] https://kevquirk.com/note-20251114-2313 102 [9] https://kevquirk.com/note-20251216-2218 103 [10] https://kevquirk.com/is-firefox-firefucked 104 [11] https://kevquirk.com/i-still-havent-found-a-new-browser-and-thats-ok 105 [12] https://kevquirk.com/2026-05-23-1331 106 [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation 107 [14] https://kevquirk.com/tag/opinion 108 [15] https://kevquirk.com/tag/technology 109 [16] mailto:[email protected]?subject=Reply%20to:%20I%20Switched%20to%20Brave%20Browser 110 [18] https://kevquirk.com/feed 111 [19] https://kevquirk.com/subscribe#email 112 [20] https://kevquirk.com/the-dungeon-anarchists-cookbook 113 [21] https://kevquirk.com/one-year-lisa 114 [22] https://kevquirk.com/colophon 115 [23] https://kevquirk.com/disclaimer 116 [24] https://kevquirk.com/privacy