Goodbye Brave

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been a Brave user for many years , but recently there’s a little problem that i tried all kinda fixes but nothing works . Apparently it’s like that with all chromium browsers. And it does the same on the different distros iv’e tried.
here’s the scenario : if graphics acceleration is off ,sites shows fine but netflix graphics are shait.
if graphics acceleration is on , i get these weird blocks on sites , and netflix plays ok.

example with graphics acceleration on

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example with graphics acceleration off

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anyway , weird , but i fixed it by going with firefox and everything just works now lol.
at this moment i don’t care whatever politics or whatever is going on at mozilla , as long as my browser works normally

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seems like there would be more factors not just the accel on/off button.
I’ve never opened Endeavour in ungoogled chromium, that’s a work browser, but I’ve seen no goofiness like that with hard accel enabled.
I believe you that you’ve seen in all chromiums though. I can’t help thinking as far as your computer there is a factor X that is culpable in that ‘blockiness’.
But if you are happy with FF that’s all that matters.

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Yea idk, always had acceleration on in brave with no problems (on same pc) . This started happening i would take a wild ques about 2months ago maybe?
But FF is ok ,never really was a fan of FF but now ima learn to love it :grin:
Oh and its not just on eos its everywhere

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hardware-accel with chromium on linux has been an annoying moving target for years.

Here is something I wrote about it in march of last year (its probably different again, but just example):

And thats not even mentioning the dozen or so flags (that may change without warning) that would also be required.

I still have ungoogled-chromium installed and up to date, but I havent actually checked on it in a while.

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Just removed brave earlier ,no use for it anymore apparently…sighs

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If you’re using Plasma with Wayland, you might try this, which solved a number of Chromium based browser issues for me:

That solved most issues for me. If it doesn’t though, you might still have a play with Wayland hinting:

brave %U --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
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I have intel,plus my style isint on floating.
I’ll check out the link tomorrow
Thanks !

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In case it was not clear .. the switch in chromium isnt enough on its own …

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@3nd have you tried vivaldi?

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Yes, good suggestion. I am using it and it is really nice.

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Yeah you are better of with Firefox anything chromium based is shite!

And don’t forget to install uBlock Origin add on to secure your browser and stop adds.

You can even check some tweak guides to secure your browser even further.

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Vivaldi is free from the turd that is present in other Chromium based browsers. Like Brave, Opera, Microsoft Edge, etc. And if Mozilla foundation goes belly up it will be my fall back browser.

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Together with Privacy Badger, I should say…:wink:

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Thanks for the suggestions guys, already added ublock original, will look into this badger thing later.

Used Vivaldi before ,was great but went with brave at the end. Then with the problem, tried Vivaldi again and it does the same.

Ima stick with FF for now as it doesn’t give me a problem , I’m just not a fan of extensions ,so there’s that lol.

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The link above shows how privacy badger is redundant beginning with FF.86.
Furthermore Privacy Badger no longer uses heuristics by default, and if you do enable it then it makes you more identifiable through canvas fingerprinting.

The only one you actually ‘need’ is ublock:origin and I am rather confident it is better than any other adblock solution you would have been using - whether by extensions or whatever brave does by default (which was tracking you last time I checked .. and dont they do ‘acceptable ads’ like adblock plus?).

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Aah ok , I’ll skip badger then.

Found this article now ,was bit curious what the fuzz around Mozilla is ,wasn’t paying attention cause I didn’t use FF.

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They changed their terms to be more legally correct - as, depending on interpretation, certain jurisdictions may very well believe mozilla needs expressed permission to ‘handle your data’ even if all it is doing is sending it as expected.. you know, like a browser would need to do in order to browse.

It looks like the article linked is one of the many either confused, trying to garner extra clicks, or has some other motivation for being intentionally misleading.

As to sections regarding “Acceptable Use Policy” .. it again seems pretty straight-forward, despite it being consistently mischaracterized.

To sum I will quote myself from elsewhere;

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Mozilla have detailed this in their Firefox Privacy Notice:

I’m not sure how anyone who’s properly read that can still believe Firefox is any better than Chrome or Edge, they’re all doing the same thing.

After having a good read of the above Firefox Privacy Notice, have a look at LibreWolf’s. Don’t worry, this one won’t take anywhere near as long:

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aah think i’m settling in with Floorp browser

all good so far

UPDATE:

nope …although they say it’s faster than FF, i found it not the case, for me it felt slower

so back to FF , grrrr