Brave 1.62.153

Brave Browser

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)