In the future, Brave wants to collect Bitcoin micropayments and display “better ads” to compensate web site publishers for lost advertising revenue. Additionally, Brave has integrated HTTPS Everywhere to help redirect sites you visit to HTTPS. In doing so, Brave intends to make the browsing experience both faster, safer and more private when compared to other web browsers. For example, Brave blocks advertisements and web site trackers by default.

Yet Brave differentiates itself in a variety of ways. Like other browsers, the Chromium web browser serves as the base for Brave. The browser is also available for mobile devices running iOS (8.1 or later) and Android (Jelly Bean 4.1 or later).īrave browser version 0.7 launched on January 20, 2016. Brave browser is available for desktop and laptop computers running Windows (Windows 7 圆4 or later), Mac OS X (10.9 or later), and Linux (64-bit Debian/Ubuntu or 64-bit Fedora/openSUSE). Eich, the creator of the JavaScript programming language, also co-founded the Mozilla project. Its current CEO, Brendan Eich, and its Lead Developer, Brian Bondy, founded Brave. Watch the companion video: How to manually update Brave web browserīrave is a free web browser application developed by Brave Software Inc., of San Francisco, California, USA.

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