Download Brave 0.23.77

Brave is a web browser based on Chromium and which muon as an associated framework. At the helm of the company behind Brave is Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and one of the founders of Mozilla. Brave focuses on improving online security and provides an alternative system for financially supporting content providers. The idea behind this is that advertising is a website’s biggest source of income. But due to intrusive advertisements, many people use ad blockers and websites lose their revenue. The developers have released Brave 0.23.77 for desktop with the following changes:

Version 0.23.77

• Fixed local file reading security issue, credit to Vladimir Metnew. (#14936)
• Disabled FTP in Brave. (#14712)
• Disabled non-chrome-extension origins from navigating to chrome-extension. (#14772)
• Fixed crash when visiting certain URLs. (#14893)
• Fixed JavaScript errors in developer tools on each page load. (#14890)
• Fixed LastPass Vault not displaying passwords. (#11624)
• Fixed Brave becoming unresponsive when the delete button under downloads is clicked. (#14805)
• Fixed external protocol prompt not being displayed on “about:” pages. (#14679)
• Upgraded to muon 8.0.6. (#14911)
• Upgraded to Chromium 68.0.3440.84. (#14910)

Version 0.23.73

• Fixed extension popups appearing transparent on first click after Brave restart. (#13633)
• Fixed Tor process not terminating when Brave crashes on macOS. (#14636)
• Fixed Tor crash when opening a link summary embedded in a tweet on Twitter. (#14392)
• Fixed file access bug. (#14642)
• Fixed minimum browsing activity message in Payments being retained even after minimum criteria has been met. (#14767)
• Fixed “Save As” dialog still appearing after disabling “Always ask me where to save files” (#14625)
• Fixed URLs ending with .pdf causes Brave to ignore Content-Type and fails to load the document. (#10554)
• Changed crossOrigin policy to anonymous when fetching favicons (#14742)
• Optimized startup time by removing referral promo check at initial startup. (#14615)
• Upgraded to muon to 8.0.3. (#14885)
• Upgraded to Chromium 68.0.3440.75. (#14886)

Version 0.23.39

• Added keyboard shortcut for Tor Private Tab. (#14504)
• Fixed potential Tor bypass by file:// URLs. (#14664)
• Fixed potential Tor bypass while loading Favicons. (#14641)
• Fixed CSS and font resources being shown in blocked scripts list in shields. (#14582)
• Fixed bookmark scrolling when populated beyond initial display boundry. (#14606)
• Fixed Tor control socket error when network is disconnected. (#14630)
• Fixed being able to load bookmarks in Tor Tab before Tor finishes loading. (#14680)
• Fixed search icons in URL bar should be a local resource. (#14653)
• Fixed right click context menu not working after switching tabs. (#14643)
• Optimized startup time by removing UGP promo check at initial startup. (#14616)
• Upgraded localization files. (#14580)
• Upgraded to Tor 0.3.3.8. (#14695)
• Upgraded to muon 7.1.6. (#14719)

Version 0.23.31

• Fixed Twitch streams not playing (#14475)
• Fixed IndexedDB not working in web worker (#12463)
• Tor only loads when needed (lazy loading) (#14617)
• Fixed webcompat issues with riot.im (#10685)
• Upgraded to Chromium 67.0.3396.103 (#14618)