The move to version 0.57 also came with a name change of Brave's most distinctive feature: What had been called 'Brave Payments' were retitled 'Brave Rewards.'īrave's business model relies on its aggressive anti-advertisement attitude. Those add-ons can be installed from within Brave, although some - those Brave hasn't itself vetted - will display a warning prior to installation.īrave also claimed a major speed boost by dropping Muon, saying that its average page load time would be 22% faster. Importantly to users, the full-Chromium Brave has access to the add-ons hosted by Google's Chrome Web Store. Electron, a creation of GitHub - which was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year for $7.5 billion - was chosen by Brave for its security prowess.

Muon, in turn, was a fork from 'Electron,' a framework for creating cross-platform GUI (graphical user interface) applications. 7 unsigned post to the company's blog.Īlthough Brave adopted Chromium - the open-source effort that generates code for Google's Chrome - at its inception, including both the Blink rendering engine and the V8 JavaScript engine, Brave started with 'Muon,' an HTML-JavaScript front-end its developers had built. 'Starting today, Brave users who are currently browsing with our Muon-based desktop version (0.25.2) will receive a notification to upgrade to our redesigned Chromium-based release (version 0.57),' stated a Dec.

Brave Software earlier this month completed a months-long alignment of its Brave browser with Google's Chromium open-source project, ending a stretch when Brave crafted its own user interface (UI) even as it ran Google's rendering engine.

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