What is the site you are having issues with?

Okay, I have decided to keep Brave, as using a secondary browser for difficult sites is not a stretch. As you said, I can use it for 99.9% of sites, some of them, nefarious, while using FF or Chrome, as needed.

My bank’s login screen displays fine in Brave and that’s with all shields enabled. Sounds to me like scripts are being blocked, do you have any extensions installed in Brave, particularly something like uBlock Origin or NoScript? What antivirus software are you running and are you using a third-party firewall?

No luck. I reinstalled Brave, but STILL behaves differently from other browsers. When I go to my banking site, instead of giving me the login screen, it does flash the login screen for a millisecond, but then, it switches to another screen that keeps asking me to change my password – ain’t doing that! This is after I took down the shield for the site. I am back on Edge and Firefox which work as smooth as ever. I spent enough time trying to get it working given the fact, that I really wanted to use Brave. I don’t need the hassle anymore and nobody has been able to give me a solution.

Familiarity, or the devil you know, is a difficult thing to overcome. I think that’s a good plan, to keep both. However, try and stick with Brave for a while and I am pretty sure you’ll be converted. 🙂

Thanks JD, food for thought. That reading does make much sense. Your argument does tip the balance in favour of Brave technically. I’m struggling to ‘like’ Brave, which I realise sounds silly, but there you are. Perhaps I just need to get used to Brave a little longer? I believe in privacy on principle, not paranoia, so on balance, I think I will keep both.

Good points. I may reconsider Firefox.

Vepheus,
There are two concepts of browser protection-security & privacy.

When it comes to security, Chromium-based browsers are more secure than Firefox because of its inherent security weaknesses. Poor sandboxing, poor exploit mitigations, and most of the code is written in a non-memory safe language. Changing a ton of settings can’t overcome these limitations. That’s why security experts recommend Chromium over Firefox. Here is a good article explaining this in detail https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

When it comes to privacy, the idea is to not stick out from the norm. Configuring or “hardening” the browser by changing a bunch of about:config settings, such as privacy.resistFingerprinting, you’re making yourself stand out and are effectively reducing privacy. The only real approach to preventing browser tracking/fingerprinting is by using a browser that is designed to prevent this by default.

JD

I’m using Bitwarden in Brave. I tried adding Bitwarden to a new (default) profile and it added fine. Again, I am guessing you might have some other software on your PC that is interfering somehow.

JD

I was able to get to this OK. So, I added a new profile in Brave (so I’d be at same settings as someone starting fresh) and I was able to get here again. I’m guessing that you might have flipped a setting that is interfering (Try adding a new profile, don’t change anything in the profile–so you will be at default settings in Brave), and try going there again.

Or, you might have some other firewall or security software on your PC that is interfering somehow.

JD

thanks
Delma

Thank you, JD. I will try that.

Harry,
When you come to a site that you trust, and the shields are blocking (some banks, some credit cards, etc), add that site to the trusted sites list. To do that, click on the orange lion icon on the top row next to the site URL. Then click the slider for shields. Brave will remember that setting for that site so you only have to do it once. I have about 15 sites that I have removed shields for. It is better to be secure and private at 99.9% of the sites you go to and trust the other .1% of sites, than use an open browser where you have no protections at 100% of sites.
JD

My preference is for portable versions of browsers. Alas, there is no official portable build of Brave, only the one offered by Portapps: https://portapps.io/app/brave-portable/
(with additional details at GitHub:
https://github.com/portapps/brave-portable). Their current build is now twenty days old.

The portable browsers that I employ are Firefox ESR, LibreWolf, Slimjet, SRWare Iron, and UnGoogled Chromium (a combination of x32 & x64), all running extensions that typically include uBlock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Badger, Malwarebytes Browser Guard (MWB Premium is installed in Windows), Cookie AutoDelete, Decentraleyes, and Disconnect.