Brave is a web browser based on Chromium. At the helm of the company behind Brave is Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and one of the founders of Mozilla. Brave focuses on improving online safety and provides an alternative system for financially supporting content providers. The idea is that advertising is often a website’s biggest source of income, but intrusive advertising causes many people to use ad blockers and websites lose revenue. The developers have released version 1.19.86 and its release notes look like this:
Release Notes V1.19.86
- Added native IPFS support. (#10220)
- Added Greaselion support for Twitch creators. (#11466)
- Added “Tabs from other devices” under brave://history when sync is enabled. (#10473)
- Updated pre-populated search engine list. (#13283)
- Updated visuals for both “New private window” and “New private window with Tor” to make it easier to distinguish between the two windows. (#2735)
- Updated New Tab Page background images. (#12508)
- Updated Brave Rewards onboarding panel under brave://welcome. (#13119)
- Update referrer handling for better compatibility. (#13464)
- Updated directory path of admin policy on Linux. (#12426)
- Implemented ad conversion against the complete URL chain of trust. (#13033)
- Removed Chromium noscript dialog from the URL bar. (#199)
- Removed duplicate controls from brave://settings/newTab. (#12505)
- Replaced the “Add Card” tab under New Tab Page with sub-tab “Edit Cards”. (#12625)
- Fixed ad crash when refilling unblinded tokens after downloading catalog due to invalid blinded tokens. (#12836)
- Fixed ads not being displayed after restart if catalog fails to download but a previous catalog bundle exists. (#10904)
- Fixed fifth background image (yellow) not being used on tip banner. (#12596)
- Fixed clicking on “Open in Tor” button from Guest window does not connect to Tor network. (#12470)
- Fixed Tor crashes in certain cases. (#12798)
- Fixed Tor not working when multiple profiles are opened at the same time. (#12650)
- Fixed open tabs not always being synced to other devices in sync chain. (#11183)
- Fixed autoplay dialog being displayed under URL bar if global content settings under brave://settings/content/autoplay is toggled. (#12795)
- Fixed brave://discards loading blank page. (#10451)
- Fixed incorrect number formatting for Crypto.com widget. (#12816)
- Fixed Brave Today intro card not being dismissed after being viewed. (#12960)
- Fixed Brave Today history scoring being limited to 100 items. (#13041)
- Fixed geolocations using the wrong endpoints in certain cases. (#11862)
- Upgraded Chromium to 88.0.4324.96. (#13637)
| Version number | 1.19.86 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Android, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| Website | brave |
| Download | https://brave.com/download/ |
| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |