Brave browser uses Chromium codebase and supports Chrome extension

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The Brave browser, which focuses on protecting personal privacy, has now completed its final phase of migrating the browsers used by users to the Chromium kernel, the same as Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera and Edge. After the replacement is complete, the Brave browser will run 22% faster.

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After updating the version of Brave 0.57, users can download the relevant extensions of Google Chrome directly from the Google online store, and the extension is fully compatible with Brave.

The Brave browser didn’t fully use the Chromium kernel before. Since 2016, Brave has only used the page rendering engine in Chromium, and the rest are custom components developed by the team. This component is called Muon. Muon is internally referred to by the team as a safer Electron branch. He allows the use of custom HTML, CSS, JavaScript to define the user interface.

But the shortcomings are also obvious: due to team size and funding constraints, Muon’s development is quite a time consuming, and Muon did not achieve the team’s expected results.

As early as March 2018, the Brave team announced that they would abandon the use of Muon and chose to use the technical standards provided by the Chromium project as the standard for the Brave browser. Here’s another great example of Chromium based browsers – read the review on Gologin it’s an alternative to the Brave browser.

The version of Brave 0.57 released last Friday completes the transition of the Muon interface to the Chromium interface. After replacing it with Chromium, the Brave browser is better able to support the WebExtensions API, now all extensible APIs and APIs that have never been implemented on Muon.

Although Chromium is used as the kernel for the Brave browser, it does not add any Google functionality to the browser. The Brave team has now disabled Google Account Sync and removed the code and post escalation code that Google uses for search suggestions. This is to ensure that the Brave browser is a “centric to protect personal privacy” browser.

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