Brave Browser is a lightning-fast, secure web browser that stands out from the competition with its focus on privacy, security, and speed. With features like HTTPS Everywhere and built-in tracker blocking, Brave keeps your online activities safe from prying eyes. Brave is one of the safest browsers on the market today. It blocks third-party data storage. It protects from browser fingerprinting. And it does all this by default.
Speed - Brave is built on Chromium, the same technology that powers Google Chrome, and is optimized for speed, providing a fast and responsive browsing experience.
Brave Browser also features Brave Rewards, a system that rewards users with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for viewing opt-in ads. This innovative system provides an alternative revenue model for content creators and a way to support the Brave community.
Brave 1.62.153 changelog:
Web3
- Added a fallback button when an IPFS page can’t be loaded. (#26486)
- Added display error when transaction fee estimate fails. (#35413)
- Added “Placeholder” icons for broken NFT images. (#34139)
- Updated private key backup warning text. (#34228)
- Updated transaction confirmation panel components to show all transaction details. (#34661)
- Updated assets on “Account Details” screen to be able to sort by value. (#34064)
- Updated wallet account blockies design. (#34052)
- Updated hardware wallet import screen to show derivation path for account import. (#25954)
- Migrated Solana Swaps to use Jupiter Swap API v6. (#35091)
- Removed shadow from Brave Wallet panel header. (#34319)
- Removed “Hardware Wallet” icon from blockie icons. (#34193)
- Removed “NFT” tab for Filecoin account view. (#33992)
- Removed loading indicator when asset discovery is not being run. (#30921)
- Fixed DApp permission not being removed when Brave Wallet is reset. (#20966)
- Fixed “Account Details” incorrectly displaying zero total fiat balance. (#34142)
- Fixed “Accounts” tab briefly displaying zero for account fiat value before returning actual value. (#33993)
- Fixed NFT menu position when viewed over the NFT image grid. (#34148)
- Fixed broken “Placeholder” icons for custom tokens on “Account Details”. (#34204)
- Fixed small network “Placeholder” icons. (#34194)
- Fixed missing dark theme text color for icon stack on “Accounts” tab. (#34093)
- Fixed infinite loading skeleton for asset auto discovery. (#33303)
Rewards
- Updated “Logged out” from custodial account notification text. (#33583)
- Removed inline contribution “Tip” buttons. (#33783)
General
- Added Brave News feed v2 (being rolled out in phases using Griffin starting at 10%). (#34593)
- Added “Mixtral 8x7B” and “Claude Instant” which can now be used in the free tier but rate limited. (#34910)
- Added “Only resolve .onion addresses in Tor windows” setting under brave://settings/privacy. (#33735)
- Added the ability to apply Griffin studies on first launch on Windows. (#35232)
- Added polish to the URL bar icons with rounded square corners. (#34957)
- Added font allow list for Linux. (#34169)
- [Security] Force the referrer to always be “no-referrer” while in Speedreader mode as reported on HackerOne by nishimunea. (#35095)
- [Security] Perform automatic redirect for “.onion” URLs only in Tor windows as reported on HackerOne by newfunction. (#34163)
- [Security] Remove “.onion” services from “window.location.ancestorOrigins” as reported on HackerOne by xiaoyinl. (#32421)
- Improved keyboard accessibility for Brave Leo. (#34453)
- Updated Brave Leo opt-in experience. (#33942)
- Updated Brave Leo to handle page content changing during conversation. (#34706)
- Updated premium indicator for new Claude model. (#34718)
- Updated Brave Leo to format code responses. (#33668)
- Updated miscellaneous Brave Leo UI items. (#34124)
- Updated Brave Leo context indicators. (#34099)
- Updated theme colors for light, dark, Private window and Private window with Tor. (#31644)
- Updated sidebar’s last opened item to persist across browser relaunch. (#34399)
- Updated SKU SDK to submit and fetch credentials using new endpoints with request ids. (#34069)
- Updated farbling protections to only farble a subset of user installed fonts. (#34043)
- Updated Arm64 Windows to prevent Widevine version incompatibilities. (#33595)
- Updated “Password Manager” tab icon. (#33242)
- Updated “Suggest questions” to be on-demand for Brave Leo. (#33575)
- Removed HTTPS Everywhere. (#28433)
- Removed aggressive fingerprinting mode. (#31229)
- Removed known tracking parameter “_kx” from URLs. (#34578)
- Removed known tracking parameter “irclickid” from URLs. (#33952)
- Removed several known Yandex tracking parameters from URLs. (#33216)
- Removed several known Facebook tracking parameters from URLs. (#33984)
- Removed Brave Leo icon from sidebar in Private, Private with Tor, and Guest profile windows. (#34518)
- Disabled Bookmarks and Reading list buttons in Guest window sidebar. (#34162)
- Fixed same-document navigations for Brave Leo. (#34946)
- Fixed user not being able to interrupt autoscroll of Brave Leo response. (#32970)
- Fixed Brave News inability to recover from lack of Wi-Fi until browser restart. (#35154)
- Fixed on-demand updates failing in certain cases for Arm64 on Windows installations. (#34523)
- Fixed mismatched sidebar panel header and contents background colors. (#34165)
- Fixed difficulty closing sidebar when it is opened temporarily. (#34085)
- Upgraded Chromium to 121.0.6167.85. (#35493) (Changelog for 121.0.6167.85)
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