Brave Origin?

[Smilax]

Is this already being discussed?

Brave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here's Who Should Care

It's a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.

reclaimthenet.org

Edit: I've got the nightly build running here. No surprises yet.

Edit edit: here's the Brave link...

Installing Brave Origin Nightly on Linux | Brave

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.

brave.com

 

[Condobloke]

from the linked article:



This Post is for Paid Supporters

Reclaim your digital freedom. Get the latest on censorship and surveillance, and learn how to fight back.

 

[piorunz]

Fixed your link:

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38561489788173-What-is-Brave-Origin

Brave Origin is available in two ways:

As a new, standalone browser product, available via a separate app download on your device
As an upgrade to the existing version of Brave on your device

Both versions will be available via a one-time purchase at https://account.brave.com/

Paid product, it seems.

Linux users can choose to skip the purchase process and get the Brave Origin standalone app for free.

Linux version is exempt for now.

 

[KGIII]

I saw this yesterday, but it wasn't on this site.

They'll keep their main browser around. That one gets funded by agreements with other companies and their BAT crypto.

This version strips almost all of that out. It's free for Linux, as has been mentioned.

Once upon a time, Opera was a paid application, and it was worth paying for (for some of us, at any rate). They were very innovative in their day.

They're also responsible for one of the most annoying (but oh so period-correct) HTML elements out there. Opera invented the 'blink' element. Yup... All of those Geocities sites (and later MySpace) sites had blinking text because of Opera. i'm not certain, but they may have also invented the marquee element.

Then, well... They stagnated... They moved to using Chromium as the base. They also sold the company to a Chinese company.

They're still innovative, I suppose. They were the first browser (that I know of) that came equipped with a VPN.

I doubt that I'd pay for them today. I moved to Firefox and eventually canceled my yearly payments.

Here's an old article:

5 features Opera Browser did first < Slashgeek

With all the recent rumors about Facebook buying Opera it might be hard for non-opera users to understand why Opera might be valuable enough product for Facebook to consider buying. Well, for starters Opera Mini is still the numero uno mobile browser out there. Probably it won’t stay there for...

www.slashgeek.net

 

[Smilax]

I saw this yesterday, but it wasn't on this site.

They'll keep their main browser around. That one gets funded by agreements with other companies and their BAT crypto.

This version strips almost all of that out. It's free for Linux, as has been mentioned.

Once upon a time, Opera was a paid application, and it was worth paying for (for some of us, at any rate). They were very innovative in their day.

They're also responsible for one of the most annoying (but oh so period-correct) HTML elements out there. Opera invented the 'blink' element. Yup... All of those Geocities sites (and later MySpace) sites had blinking text because of Opera. i'm not certain, but they may have also invented the marquee element.

Then, well... They stagnated... They moved to using Chromium as the base. They also sold the company to a Chinese company.

They're still innovative, I suppose. They were the first browser (that I know of) that came equipped with a VPN.

I doubt that I'd pay for them today. I moved to Firefox and eventually canceled my yearly payments.

Here's an old article:

5 features Opera Browser did first < Slashgeek

With all the recent rumors about Facebook buying Opera it might be hard for non-opera users to understand why Opera might be valuable enough product for Facebook to consider buying. Well, for starters Opera Mini is still the numero uno mobile browser out there. Probably it won’t stay there for...

www.slashgeek.net

Thank you for the thoughtful response. I remember running Opera for a while as well, back in the day when I was still having to run Windows for work and was looking for a consistent cross platform browser. I think. The more years that pass the harder it is to remember why I did some things.

I'm still running Brave for most things while trying out Origin for selective tasks. It's snappy quick. However I almost immediately noticed a full screen flickering / jumping when scrolling some sites (seems to be the ones with embedded video links) no matter if Origin is in a window or full screen. Nothing breaks, just annoying behavior like the screen is refreshing. I've tried different window managers, makes no difference. It seems odd if it's just Brave with the extra features stripped out. On the same machine side by side, Brave is smooth while Origin is jumpy. There was a nightly build update waiting yesterday morning that I was hopeful would correct it, but not yet.

Edit: flicker, flickering might be a better description.

 

[KGIII]

However I almost immediately noticed a full screen flickering / jumping when scrolling some sites (seems to be the ones with embedded video links) no matter if Origin is in a window or full screen.

Try turning hardware acceleration off.

 

[Smilax]

Try turning hardware acceleration off.

That fixed it. I'm confident that fixed it because it was turned off in Brave and I hadn't noticed--doh!

Thank you. This is why I come here.

 

[KGIII]

That fixed it. I'm confident that fixed it because it was turned off in Brave and I hadn't noticed--doh!

Thank you. This is why I come here.

You're welcome. We like to help those who take the plunge.

 

[Smilax]

While comparing Brave and Origin settings side by side, I came across this interesting new feature. I already use multiple browsers for sandboxing purposes. If they work the way I assume from the description, Containers will be something I use daily.

 

[Smilax]

To open a new tab in a container, left click on the new tab "+" on the tab row, a pull down menu lets you select which container to open it in. Vivaldi already does something similar but I didn't like the implementation. It's probably due to my bias because I've been running Brave for so long. This feels easy.

I'll be keeping this place in the "School" container.

 

[piorunz]

While comparing Brave and Origin settings side by side, I came across this interesting new feature. I already use multiple browsers for sandboxing purposes. If they work the way I assume from the description, Containers will be something I use daily.View attachment 31799View attachment 31798

I use multiple Librewolf profiles to satisfy my separation needs. You can use one browser like me to separate everything.
Each profile have a shortcut on the panel and it's easy to use.
Containers is also something I use within profiles.

 

[Smilax]

Have made the switch and Origin is now my default primary browser. Pretty easy switch, just less of the same. I had to recreate the favorites on my Top Sites page, there's no simple way to transfer them (no I'm not setting up Sync for 10 shortcuts). Passwords and bookmarks were easy. Pi-hole logs confirms it isn't trying to phone home anymore. No more baked-in Speedreader, I did use that but living without it for now.

Containers don't seem to do anything much yet other than display pretty colored tabs and act as a placeholder for coming attractions. I can still see history created while in Container A from a Container B view. Also when creating the Top Sites shortcuts, there was no property for selecting which container to launch in. I would expect that functionality in the production version. Maybe I'm expecting too much.

 

[WindowsSucks7]

Not sure if I need to start new post? or ok run under this?

Mods if need to move this?

using Brave for many years to block the adverts on utube, see many now having issues with the add block now barred on utube

a fix that was discussed elsewhere was to

Enable uBlock Origin in extensions​

some says its not secure and Brave have a popup to confirm they have not tested to say its secure?

Anyone using this? or feedback

Thank you

 

[KGIII]

Both uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite are made by 'gorhill' (Raymond Hill) are both perfectly safe to use.

That the extension is not tested by Brave is normal. Testing any extensions is not their role, unless they've authored the extension. While there are some automated scans by the official sites that host browser extensions, they're all generally untested by anybody in an official capacity. So, a message that it is untested would be normal.

You shouldn't need to add anything with Brave. uBlock Origin should already be installed and enabled, as I recall. It's built into the browser. (I'd have to test this to verify it. I'm going by distant memories.)

It should work just fine with YouTube. I haven't seen a YouTube nag screen in a long time -- and I pretty much exclusively use Brave to watch YouTube. If you're getting any messages, that'd be unusual (from what I've seen and discussed with others).

Also, here's a fun tip: If you regularly use YouTube, install 'Sponsor Block'. Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds. It's human-powered, but humans are often surprisingly quick.