Cons

Occasional Freezes

Many times, when I launch a new tab, Brave simply stops working. No clicks or key strokes recognised for more than 5 seconds. This doesn’t happen on any other browser, as I have more than enough RAM (16GB).

Extensions

There isn’t native support for all other Chrome extensions, and you have to follow a specific tutorial to add another one. I don’t have enough time to do that + there’s more entropy which usually means more bugs.

Pinned Tabs New Window

New windows include previous pinned tabs! This is rather annoying, as when I research a completely different topic (which doesn’t have any ties with the current window) I don’t want to have my email etc in there.

There is a GitHub issue tracking this and, unfortunately, it won’t be fixed before Brave Core is released.

Pinned Tabs Reordering

On Chrome, I pin my frequently used web apps in top left corner (Inbox, LinkedIn etc). That’s also doable in Brave, but there are serious bugs in the ordering algorithm.

Sometimes, you cannot even reorder them and other times it simply drops the pin wrongly.

This specific con might sound a little bit OCD, but my reflexes are deeply rooted and I need to be able to tap the first tab and open my email from there.

Medium Session (Login with Twitter)

The most significant problem so far! After I login with Twitter on Medium, the session is dismissed on the next page refresh.

As a Medium superuser, clapping and making notes all the time is paramount to my cognitive well-being.