For those who are beginner level and know nothing about this subject - are there any cons with using browsers like Firefox or brave instead of google? Is there anything that is needed to know or pay attention to that google does automatically? Would love any tips on switching to these browsers. Want to switch and not miss something I’m suppose to do using these. Thanks and much appreciated.
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Moving or synching your data, including bookmarks and maybe your passwords around, may be interesting depending on what you need to do.
You may want to think of using a couple browsers and for different things. For example, you might only use Chrome with Google sites, and use another browser for social things, and yet another browser for browsing/reading.
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- you don’t really save all your settings to your google account
- some websites might not work if you harden your browser
You could switch over entirely and then keep chromium as a backup browser for anything that doesn’t work on brave.
Firefox is a bit more CPU intensive than Chrome so if your using older hardware or budget laptops, this may be something to watch out for as it can cause excess battery drain.
Brave does not have the typical account-based syncing that Chrome does(Firefox has account-based syncing with a Mozilla account). It uses E2EE-sync that is set up by QR-Code or passphrase. Major issue of this is that if all synced devices lose your browser data, theres not a way to recover it like you could with it being tied to an account.
Also, Firefox doesn’t have access to Chrome Web Store for extensions. It uses the Mozilla Addons site. Brave can use the Chrome Web Store for extensions though.