We would love for you to download Brave and give the emerging IPFS support a spin. Any feedback you have about expectations and experience would be greatly appreciated.

How about becoming the first major browser to support Gemini? Not the cryptocurrency that is.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Most browsers have great support via the IPFS Companion ( https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-companion/ ) and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient.

>and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient.

No, it isn't.

Seconding this. Unless something's changed, my experience with the default Go daemon they provide was shock at how much resources it consumed in the background. It was something like 12% CPU usage while doing nothing at all for hours on end - I wasn't even accessing any ipfs content.

I see less than 1% cpu usage and 200mb memory usage and 4% spikes while serving my personal website or fetching an IPFS resource.

(Though on a Linux system I also modified the low water setting up to 1000 peers and the high water setting to 2000 peers)

Yeah I just tried downloading the latest version and it looks much better now. I remember I tried ~3 years ago or so and it was horribly inefficient, so I deleted it, then gave it another shot around a year ago and came to the same conclusion.

But yes, from running it ~10 minutes just now, it looks quite reasonable.

Yeah, they did improve it recently (within the past year or so). I see that Brave uses a gateway by default, I guess that's good for adoption but bad for decentralization. Then again, users don't care about decentralization as much as they care about convenience, so that's a good first step.

12-32% on a Macbook Pro 2019.

I don't think I'm going to adopt this.

I want to like Vivaldi but isn’t it closed source? That’s a non-starter for me (given most other alternatives are open source)

Uhm, no? https://vivaldi.com/source/

Only part of their source is available.

> Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. ... The Vivaldi UI is truly what makes the browser unique. As such, it is our most valuable asset in terms of code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Being able to contribute to ui code, or to customize ui without going through the minified code would be the main benefit of browser being open source. For discouraging forks, using a non-permissive license for js code, would be as effective as minification.

Which is kinda funny since their UI is half-done and sluggish.

And yet it provides features that I desperately would want in Firefox, such as tab tiling. Really miss that from Vivaldi.

Vivaldi is great, I really like it. Both it and Brave are excellent places to browse internet. Glad to have options and choice.