A couple of years ago a new web browser called Brave was introduced. This web browser was created by one of the former CEOs of Mozilla and intended to give the user money to use and navigate through Brave. Two years later, Brave browser has changed dramatically. But these changes have served to be a real alternative to Google Chrome.
Brave is available for all Gnu / Linux distributions and Android smartphones, so we have the possibility to synchronize the navigation of the computer and the smartphone. Brave has a Chromium base that allows is similar to Chrome but has quite a few changes that make it an interesting web browser for the end user.
One of Brave's enhanced options is the ad and tracker blocker that will allow us to navigate faster and without annoyances or intrusive advertising. Along with this ad blocker, Brave allows us to have anonymous and also safe browsing from trackers and malware through unsafe browsing. And recently, Brave has included a plugin that allows us to connect the browser with a Bitcoin wallet so that we can use the navigation hours as mining hours. Something practical that more and more users use.
Currently we can install Brave on Debian and Ubuntu based distributions by two methods. The first one is with the snap package tool, to install it we only have to execute the following in the terminal:
sudo snap install brave
After several minutes the web browser will be installed on our distribution. The other method is through external repositories. To do this we open the terminal and write the following:
sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl gnupg curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/brave-browser-release.gpg add - echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list sudo apt update sudo apt install brave-browser
Web browsing with Brave is quite fast and resource consumption is not as high as in Google Chrome, which makes Brave a great option for those looking for something lighter and just as powerful.