That’s not to say Brave isn’t safe, but safer than Firefox? Potentially not. It seems that they have many of the same default privacy offerings, but Firefox comes out ahead with features like Primary Password and instant-erasure of online info when the browser’s closed. It’s also unclear how Brave is so much more secure than Firefox. It wasn’t slow enough to be very noticeable, but it definitely didn’t seem to be considerably faster, either. In fact, Brave seemed to very slightly lag behind the other two browsers when searching for the same phrase. Personally, I didn’t find Brave to move faster than Chrome or Safari. The competitionĪccording to its website, Brave is 3x faster than Chrome (opens in new tab) (view their speed test here (opens in new tab)), and it has better default privacy features than Firefox (opens in new tab). On mobile, you can use Brave with Android version 5 or later and iOS version 13 or later.

Linux 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04+, Mint 17+, Debian 9+, openSUSE 15+, Fedora Linux 28+, or CentOS/RHEL 8+.

You can make changes to background images, stats, top sites, news, and the clock.īrave is available for Windows, macOS and Linux on desktop and iOS and Android on mobile (Image credit: Brave) Platformsīrave can be used on the following systems:

Overall, Brave has a nice-looking dashboard, and you can make additional changes by going to the Settings gear on the bottom-right of the page. Those links are called Cards by Brave, and you can hide individual ones by selecting Edit Cards at the bottom.

Binance, FTX,, and Gemini are all cryptocurrency-related sources. For example, if you select, that information will populate where the Brave Rewards info is in the example above. That box on the right with the link at the top that says FTX lets you toggle between what you want to show in the bigger space below. By scrolling down on the dashboard, you can see news stories that continue to populate as you scroll. On the top-left, you can see stats for how effective the browser’s been at blocking ads and trackers and saving bandwidth and time. This is what the default dashboard of the browser looks like. Brave's dashboard is clean, simple and free from distractions (Image credit: Brave) User experience

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