
Private Window with Tor" I personally find very useful.
Widevine - Asks when a site wants to install Widevine on your computer. WebTorrent - Uses WebTorrent to display torrents directly in the browser. Private Window with Tor - Tor hides your IP address from the sites you visit. Media Router - Uses Media Router component to enable Chromecast in the browser.
IPFS Companion - Uses IPFS companion extension to support IPFS in the browser.
Hangouts - Uses Hangouts component to enable screen sharing and other features in the browser. Crypto Wallets - Provides an Ethereum wallet and Dapp browser inside Brave. With Brave, you can choose to allow, or disallow the following:īrave installs with a number of extensions that you can configure or leave turned off if you prefer. Brave Rewards Button (more on that later). Configure the Search Engines Brave will use. The settings in Brave are much the same as in Chrome or any other browser, with a few neat extras. That's the "Application Launcher for Drive (by Google)" - The application launcher doesn't seem to want to play with the Brave browser, but I've been too slack to email Brave support to try and get a resolution for it. I've yet to strike an extension on the Google web store that would not work just as well with Brave as well, apart from Just go to theĬhrome Web Store, select any extension or theme that you like and install it in exactly the same way you install them to Google Chrome. The extensions and themes available to you for Brave pretty much mirror what is available for Google Chrome. An exported Bookmarks HTML file from any other browser. Once you have it installed, it can import your Bookmarks from the following browsers: Installing Brave is pretty much like installing Google Chrome. (Click the image to see a full-sized version of the pic) Here's a snapshot of what it looks like on my computer. It looks and performs in a very similar way to Google Chrome, except that I find it considerably faster. The beauty of Brave, when compared to Chrome, is that the learning curve is very small indeed.
Introducing a Google Chrome Look-a-Like Browserįor a few months now, I've been using theīrave Browser as my default web browser on Windows 10, just to see how well it compares to all the others available. Now given that Google Chrome is a well established and solid browser, I suspect the problems a lot of folks are experiencing is because of recent Windows 10 update and/or the lack of Google Chrome updates to address the changes in Windows 10. Recently, some clients of mine have found that Chrome misbehaves in a variety of ways, most recently being that on some Windows 10 installations, Chrome tends to randomly close down for no apparent reason.
This article is based on the Windows 10 version of it. Pre-Ramble: Brave is available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iOS, iPhones, and Android devices.