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brave-browser
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brave / brave-browser

brave-browser

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

edit2: Nevermind all this, Brave did in fact implement protected content this earlier this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/413 I still can't use brave to…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:38:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year203 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-06-21 03:22:42 UTC to 2026-09-28 20:15:01 UTC.

0102030402018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 0 submissions, 30 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 6 submissions, 25 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 43 mentions; 2 submissions, 41 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 2 submissions, 30 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 2 submissions, 20 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30030
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC31625
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC43241
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC32230
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22220
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 12, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Brave Browser This repository is not needed for building the browser and only holds issues, releases and the wiki. The source code and contributions are at https://github.com/brave/brave-core. You can visit our website to get the latest stable release. Resources Issues: Bug reports and feature requests for the Brave Browser. Releases: Releases of Brave Browser hosted on GitHub. See Brave Release Schedule for more information. Wiki: Documentation for developers, administrators, and power users. User-facing documentation is available at the Brave help center. Documentation and guides: Additional technical information, primarily for developers. Contributing Please see the contributing guidelines. To get started building Brave, hop over to the Wiki. Security Policy Please see the security policy. Community Join the Q&A community if you'd like to get more involved with Brave. You can ask for help, discuss features you'd like to see, and a lot more. We'd love to have your help so that we can continue improving Brave. You can also ask questions and interact in the community-guest channel on Brave Software's Slack. Help us translate Brave to your language by submitting translations at https://explore.transifex.com/brave/brave_en/. Follow @brave on X for important news and announcements.
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What Hacker News says

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mdaniel·Dec 6, 2022
> I also never got why we need DSLs for build systems The same reason they show up anywhere: to have the correct level of abstraction, or its cousin "signal/noise ratio." Trying to debug "gcc -o build build.cc && ./build" sounds like the 8th circle of hell to me. I can show a concrete example: https://github.com/facebook/sapling/blob/0.1.20221201-095354... So, when this raises OSError or FileNotFoundError due to some botched assumption, I guess one just attaches pdb to it and now your job is to be a python expert Or, my other favorite "what is wrong with you:" https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/FIREFOX_NIGHTLY_... Or, so as to not just be hating on python, this junk: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/v1.48.33/package... and its https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/build/comman... friend All of those are in a
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general purpose programming language, and they require spelunking through thousands of lines of code to surface the actual commands and dependencies that are buried therein. And, if you become a domain expert in mach, where else are you going to apply that expertise?
In A new CMake Scripting Language?
seaal·Nov 16, 2022
Didn't catch your reply. With the Ethers.js library it is trivial [1] to generate key-pairs from a mnemonic phrase. You might be interested in vanity address generator [2]. The Brave Wallet GitHub Wiki [3] has a write up with good links for further research. [1] https://docs.ethers.io/v5/api/signer/#Wallet.fromMnemonic [2] https://github.com/bokub/vanity-eth [3] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Wallet-See...
In Ask HN: Non-techie friendly way to store crypto outside of exchange
NavinF·Sep 20, 2022
Come on, you could have googled it instead of just guessing. Eg https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20059 > Yes - manifest v2 extensions will be supported by Brave We'll be taking steps as V2 is sunset by Chromium team (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/) >During the deprecation period, we can keep this functionality via patch (since it's there for Enterprise). After V2 is pulled from store, we'll need to stand up our own extension store for manifest v2
In Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension
js2·Sep 6, 2022
> The gclient utility (part of depot tools) will fetch the official Chromium source code. The tag that is fetched is captured in our package.json (for example, 70.0.3538.35). All of the source code will be downloaded into the ./src/ folder The captured in our package.json text links to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/package.j... But I think it's supposed to link to https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/package.json
In Deviations from Chromium (features we disable or remove)

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