Dolphin vs Brave

Dolphin can be a little slow on startup (depending on distro, hardware etc...). Startup time can vary from a couple of seconds to up to a minute.

It doesn't cope well with remote file system nicely like sshfs or any samba, like when network is not responding/very slow. It just hangs.

Despite having a large enough monitor, if you keep the size of the browser window small, the "Type" column (in "Details" view mode) insists on including the complete multipart MIME string, making the column so wide that trying to limit its width makes the column useless. Sorting by "Type" renders the list into an incomprehensible mess.

Feels weird on KDE because it has less customizing options Konqueror and any other KDE app have.

Developers set a constraint in Dolphin that deny Dolphin to run with root permissions. Hence, if you want to perform an action that require root permissions, such as rename a file in /etc/ folder, you are forced to use terminal or switch to another file manager.

Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.)

Brave takes on a lot of roles besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file.

Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad!

Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only.

Since it's based on Chrome.

1 tab, 400+ RAM, also it depends on what website you're on.

On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave.

However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.

Can be accessed with an extension though.

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar.

On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration.

Doesn't clear cache well, shows same page even after emptying it until you ctrl+F5 to get fresh page every time you visit the page(s).

There would be less of a problem with using Web3 solutions if they weren't sometimes looking like an art for art's sake, a jerkcircle shoving down it's own topic down the users' throat. Replacing the Web 2.0 with another commercial solution is bound to end up as a reinvention of the wheel, where even more commercialization and direct monetization will push digital exclusion. Non-profit open source community has achieved great things while so far NFTs and cryptos are, not without a reason, ridiculed.

Unable to sync extensions, no cloud sync (only device sync).

No options to customize apperance, and make the bookmarks appear on the home page, for instance.

Most creators don't use it and so will not profit from the crypto system.

Only customer support available in Brave community. Mods usually does not help.

Google Search is the first search engine on the list.

Bookmark management is not as seamless as other browsers.

Per default Brave enables hardware acceleration which results in a much higher energy (battery) consumption than the most other web browsers.

Brave is advertised as a browser that respects your privacy and blocks ads while still supporting content creators. However, at the same time the company is making deals with Facebook, Twitter and others to whitelist their trackers and ads