Pale Moon has their own issues, goals and internal politics. They also use the older Goanna engine that is still single process.
I understand the point of view of wanting to strengthen FOSS projects and help development. But in some cases its easier and faster to start with a clean slate.
Brave is not built a on Chrome, its built on the open source Chromium. If you're concerned its very easy to run Wireshark to see what's trying to phone home.
Goanna uses multithreading heavily, just in a different way (internally to its components). Because PM is based on XUL, it also has a much richer extension system. And, in the most basic sense, a more powerful and customizable UI.
Chrome/Chromium is a meaningless distinction. Trying to fully audit the entire profile of traffic coming out of a browser in any complex situation, is also simply a massive task - and neither you nor I could single-handedly satisfy it. Worse, it's a moving target. It's not trustable. It just isn't.
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