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I'm using Brave atm, but I'm about to give it up. The tabs frequently freeze and I can only hover over them to preview. I can't click on them.

Adding a bookmark takes about a minute.

Brave won't remember BASIC passwords

General sluggishness

Kickass Torrents is able to launch ads when clicking in the search box.

> Kickass Torrents

But Kickass Torrents died a year ago or so.

Unfortunately Brave doesn't have extensions and won't let you restore some settings from backup or transfer them to another PC, so it's not really a complete browser for most techies the way we think of Chrome and Firefox. Note that the settings loss thing is an issue (ehem "feature") with Chrome/Chromium itself and not specific to Brave on Windows builds.

The Tor Browser has some kind of antifingerprinting stuff in it. I don't know how it compares to what Brave does.

Indeed, I remembered wrong. I think it was bcrypt who implemented it in both Tor Browser and Brave.

Many of the Tor project's anti-fingerprinting measures are gradually being merged into mainline Firefox.