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Except that, oddly enough, Brave's iOS browser is based on Firefox iOS. Brave is open source (well, its browsers are, I doubt its servers will be where they'll be serving users ads from) and you can check their iOS source at GitHub.

I thought this quote interesting. Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal: "Brave for iOS seems to be a fork of Firefox for iOS, but it manages to block ads (Mozilla says they can’t)." Link

So either Mozilla has some reason (e.g. agreement) not to block ads on iOS, or they couldn't figure out how to. If the former, they should be called out for being deceptive. If the latter, they can use the power of open source and learn how Brave blocks ads and then do so themselves. Unless Brave is doing something like Opera Mini, where webpages are proxied through Brave's servers where they can be manipulated before being sent on to the user. Which seems bad for a privacy-vaunting browser to do.

I don't have any iOS devices so I don't really care in that regard (other than my general concern for well-being of others, as far as that goes). I also don't agree with Brave's initial premise that the web must be supported by either subscriptions or ads. I think a sizable chunk of the web can be funded by the person or organization hosting the content. Hosting is cheap. What's really being talked about is revenue generation. But as others have pointed out, a fair number of people like sharing information and will do so without a profit motive. People have been sharing and talking freely for decades; I don't see that going away. If you're interested in revenue generation, create a business plan. Alternatively, look into and push for a basic income. A basic income may be a great way to support hobbyists of all sorts. Anyway, I just don't buy that the web solely relies on subscriptions and ads. Individuals and companies can use their independent revenue streams as well, and the world won't end.

Uh, my overall point being Firefox iOS is apparently good enough to use as their base. So good for Mozilla there. I've used Firefox for Android and it's pretty good (yay NoScript), but holy hell looking at its source code makes me want to weep. I built it just to mess around with it, but it's a confusing mess of native code with a whole lot of javascript. Firefox iOS's code makes a lot more sense to me (and I've never used Swift).

Hi Troll, hope you're well.
regarding V8 and Firefox, TraceMonkey (FF next JS engine, due for FF 3.1 iirc) perform actually slightly better:
http://andreasgal.com/2008/09/03/tracemonkey-vs-v8/
You can try it out now in the nightlies.

Then, we (hopefully) got Tamarin coming for FF 4, bit vapour ware-ish at the moment though.

Having said that, Chrome is certanly a very interesting piece of kit. looking forward to check it out in more depth when things settled a bit. Still it's gonna have to be something very nice to make me swap browser though, but who knows?