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Brave

Version 113.1.51.118

Secure, Open-Source browser.

3.8
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Brave overview

Brave automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser. Soon, micropayments and better ads will give users and publishers a better deal. Up to a whopping 60% of page-load time is caused by the underlying ad technology that loads into various places each time you hit a page on your favorite news site. And 20% of this is time spent on loading things that are trying to learn more about you.

  • Browse Faster - Brave blocks trackers and intrusive ads that can slow you down on the web.
  • Browse Safer - Brave keeps you and your information safer, effectively shielding you from 3rd party tracking and malvertisement.
  • Browse Better - With Brave, you can choose whether to see ads that respect your privacy or pay sites directly. Either way, you can feel good about helping fund content creators.
Features
  • Brave blocks harmful advertising - There's a new ad game in town. It's called "Malvertising". The latest display ad technology can install malware on your laptop without your knowledge. But not with Brave watching your back.
  • Brave redirects sites to HTTPS - We've integrated HTTPS Everywhere into every Brave browser to make sure you are always moving your bits across the safest possible pipe.
  • Brave blocks tracking pixels and tracking cookies - Do you ever get that feeling that someone is watching you when you see an ad for something you bought a few days ago? We make sure you aren't being tracked while you shop online and browse your favorite sites.

What’s new in version 113.1.51.118

Updated on May 17 2023

Web3
  • Fixed NFT pinning status background and text color.
General
  • Implemented per-device WebUSB serial farbling.
  • Fixed saved passwords being removed from brave://settings/passwords and sync failure when restarting Brave on certain Linux distros.
  • Upgraded Chromium to 113.0.5672.126.

Information

License

Free

Size

225.2 MB

Developer’s website

https://www.brave.com

Downloads

50782

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Apple Silicon
  • macOS 10.13 or later
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Privacy
User Experience
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What needs improvements

Bug fixing
Customization
Value

Brave qualities

Value
4.3
Ease of use
4.3
Features
4.2
Reliability
4.0
Customer support
3.8

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charlesturner724
charlesturner724
May 18 2023
113.1.51.118
0.0
May 18 2023
0.0
Version: 113.1.51.118
Hello! Hope you are fine. Version 108.1.46.140 is out. AND Brave's autoupdate system remains BROKEN, forcing users to manually update. It's great to have the latest and safest Chromium engine inside. It thoroughly SUCKS that the software is too scuffed to actually autoupdate. Shameful. And yes, trying to report anything to the devs is effectively IMPOSSIBLE. (From personal experience). But try anyway. Thanksss
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 4 2023
113.1.51.110
4.0
May 4 2023
4.0
Version: 113.1.51.110
Oh come on Brave! Somewhere, somehow they've separated out the Intel vs ARM versions again. What a PITA. The download today at MU is the Intel version. :-P If you want the UNIVERSAL version download, go here: https://laptop-updates.brave.com/latest/osx
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Feb 8 2023
1.48.158.0
4.0
Feb 8 2023
4.0
Version: 1.48.158.0
NOTE: Brave is currently UNIVERSAL, which is to say it IS ARM NATIVE. It's not just Intel 64. It's both.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Jan 27 2023
1.47.186.0
4.0
Jan 27 2023
4.0
Version: 1.47.186.0
Wow. Brave's autoupdate actually worked this time. A star is born. Back to 4 stars.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Jan 9 2023
108.1.46.144
4.0
Jan 9 2023
4.0
Version: 108.1.46.144
v108.1.46.153 is out. Autoupdate is still broken. Great. I'd give it 4 stars otherwise. Recently, I've found Twitch hates Brave, forcing a lot of attempts to play streams or having to reload pages. Great. :-P
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Dec 9 2022
108.1.46.138
4.0
Dec 9 2022
4.0
Version: 108.1.46.138
Version 108.1.46.140 is out. AND Brave's autoupdate system remains BROKEN, forcing users to manually update. It's great to have the latest and safest Chromium engine inside. It thoroughly SUCKS that the software is too scuffed to actually autoupdate. Shameful. And yes, trying to report anything to the devs is effectively IMPOSSIBLE. (From personal experience). But try anyway.
Spudfry
Spudfry
Dec 6 2022
108.1.46.134
0.0
Dec 6 2022
0.0
Version: 108.1.46.134
Love the ad blocking, torrent feature is still crap though.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Dec 4 2022
1.46.133.0
4.0
Dec 4 2022
4.0
Version: 1.46.133.0
v 1.46.134.0 (108.0.5359.94) is out.
Aargl
Aargl
Nov 14 2022
107.1.45.123.0
5.0
Nov 14 2022
5.0
Version: 107.1.45.123.0
Brave has now become my go-to browser, even though I still use Firefox in certain cases. Brave is fast (because chromium based) and includes a number of useful features that allows removing many addons such as "I don't care about cookies" (enabled checking the "Easylist Cookie" list in the filters), uMatrix and uBlock (just paste your existing uBlock filters in the Custom Filters area in the Shield prefs).
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Nov 10 2022
107.1.45.123.0
4.0
Nov 10 2022
4.0
Version: 107.1.45.123.0
I've had to knock my rating of Brave down a star. Their self-update system is increasingly broken and failing. Having to instead go download each update is stupid. Their History system remains a catastrophe. Reporting bugs to them is a horror of masochism. DISAPPOINTING.
craigm014
craigm014
Nov 3 2022
1.45.118
0.0
Nov 3 2022
0.0
Version: 1.45.118
Most of the comments below are saying that you (macupdate) have been reporting the Brave version incorrectly for some time now. You have lost the leading number in the version (e.g., 107).
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 17 2022
1.44.112.0
4.0
Oct 17 2022
4.0
Version: 1.44.112.0
I've complained to Brave's devs about its History consistently breaking, despite trashing the History file and starting from scratch. The dev site gets contentious and its annoying trying to report bugs. But I did my best. Let's cross our fingers...
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 16 2022
1.44.112.0
4.0
Oct 16 2022
4.0
Version: 1.44.112.0
v106.0.5249.119 (1.44.112) is out.
RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Sep 27 2022
105.1.43.88
0.0
Sep 27 2022
0.0
Version: 105.1.43.88
The current version is 105.1.43.93
RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Aug 9 2022
102.1.39.122
0.0
Aug 9 2022
0.0
Version: 102.1.39.122
The current version is 104.1.42.88
RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Jun 14 2022
100.1.37.116
0.0
Jun 14 2022
0.0
Version: 100.1.37.116
The current version is 102.1.39.122 (my typo fixed)
RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Jun 14 2022
100.1.37.116
0.0
Jun 14 2022
0.0
Version: 100.1.37.116
The current version is 101.1.39.122
Aargl
Aargl
Jun 7 2022
100.1.37.116
5.0
Jun 7 2022
5.0
Version: 100.1.37.116
I've been quite happy with Brave for 6 months now, but there's a very infuriating downside to it: once in a while, without apparent reasons, it completely forgets my extensions! They seem to be there in the folder, but won't appear in the browser. Until now, I've always succeeded in restoring them thanks to Time Machine, but not this time, even going back one month before. :-( Their support forum is full of such complaints since many years ago, without any satisfying answer. I recall I had the same issue in Chromium when migrating to a different computer, though, so it may be a Chromium issue. Even if this last one didn't happen after an update, I had to come back to v1.37.113 for Time Machine's restoration to work!!!
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 14 2022
100.1.37.116
4.0
May 14 2022
4.0
Version: 100.1.37.116
v101.1.38.115 is now out.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 14 2022
100.1.37.116
4.0
May 14 2022
4.0
Version: 100.1.37.116
v101.0.4951.64 is out. It's a minor update.
fulvio-lanteri-1
fulvio-lanteri-1
Mar 23 2023
111.1.49.128
5.0
Mar 23 2023
5.0
Version: 111.1.49.128
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Jan 27 2023
1.47.186.0
4.0
Jan 27 2023
4.0
Version: 1.47.186.0
Vyggo
Vyggo
Nov 23 2022
107.1.45.131
5.0
Nov 23 2022
5.0
Version: 107.1.45.131
Aargl
Aargl
Nov 14 2022
107.1.45.123.0
5.0
Nov 14 2022
5.0
Version: 107.1.45.123.0
Sigil
Sigil
Aug 14 2022
104.1.42.88
4.0
Aug 14 2022
4.0
Version: 104.1.42.88
xouzouras
xouzouras
Jul 23 2022
102.1.39.122
4.0
Jul 23 2022
4.0
Version: 102.1.39.122
Drtyrell969
Drtyrell969
Mar 30 2022
99.1.36.117
4.0
Mar 30 2022
4.0
Version: 99.1.36.117
The_Blinded
The_Blinded
Mar 14 2022
99.1.36.112
5.0
Mar 14 2022
5.0
Version: 99.1.36.112
firewall00110
firewall00110
Mar 14 2022
99.1.36.112
1.0
Mar 14 2022
1.0
Version: 99.1.36.112
wanarek
wanarek
Feb 14 2022
98.1.35.101
5.0
Feb 14 2022
5.0
Version: 98.1.35.101
hotsuga253
hotsuga253
Feb 12 2022
98.1.35.101
1.0
Feb 12 2022
1.0
Version: 98.1.35.101
simpsonkenw
simpsonkenw
Nov 13 2021
95.1.31.88
5.0
Nov 13 2021
5.0
Version: 95.1.31.88
Freenergy
Freenergy
Sep 6 2021
91.1.25.73
5.0
Sep 6 2021
5.0
Version: 91.1.25.73
WetNet
WetNet
Jun 17 2021
91.1.25.73
2.0
Jun 17 2021
2.0
Version: 91.1.25.73
Giosette
Giosette
Jun 12 2021
91.1.25.72
5.0
Jun 12 2021
5.0
Version: 91.1.25.72
lingwersen
lingwersen
Jun 8 2021
91.1.25.70
4.0
Jun 8 2021
4.0
Version: 91.1.25.70
Frankp
Frankp
Jun 4 2021
91.1.25.70
5.0
Jun 4 2021
5.0
Version: 91.1.25.70
jane779
jane779
May 17 2021
90.1.24.85
4.0
May 17 2021
4.0
Version: 90.1.24.85
Spudboy
Spudboy
Feb 22 2021
5.0
Feb 22 2021
5.0
Version: null
Mindplay
Mindplay
Jan 19 2021
5.0
Jan 19 2021
5.0
Version: null
Vsopat
Vsopat
Dec 4 2020
4.0
Dec 4 2020
4.0
Version: null
cade1
cade1
Nov 29 2020
1.0
Nov 29 2020
1.0
Version: null
69Z28
69Z28
Nov 12 2020
5.0
Nov 12 2020
5.0
Version: null
mherndz-1
mherndz-1
Oct 31 2020
1.0
Oct 31 2020
1.0
Version: null
mugsuk
mugsuk
Aug 21 2020
5.0
Aug 21 2020
5.0
Version: null
bornbe1
bornbe1
Jul 6 2020
1.0
Jul 6 2020
1.0
Version: null
jordandavidfischer
jordandavidfischer
May 19 2020
4.0
May 19 2020
4.0
Version: null
keishangbanzo
keishangbanzo
May 12 2020
2.0
May 12 2020
2.0
Version: null
Yankguy
Yankguy
Apr 26 2020
2.0
Apr 26 2020
2.0
Version: null
JacAbu
JacAbu
Mar 20 2020
2.0
Mar 20 2020
2.0
Version: null
neartheredrocks
neartheredrocks
Feb 26 2020
1.0
Feb 26 2020
1.0
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leolima20
leolima20
Feb 18 2020
5.0
Feb 18 2020
5.0
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Cwr
Feb 11 2020
1.0
Feb 11 2020
1.0
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daveu
Feb 8 2020
5.0
Feb 8 2020
5.0
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Robio
Jan 16 2020
4.0
Jan 16 2020
4.0
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KristenS
KristenS
Dec 8 2019
4.0
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4.0
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jputting
Dec 7 2019
1.0
Dec 7 2019
1.0
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Scion777
Oct 12 2019
4.0
Oct 12 2019
4.0
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MHerndz
Sep 2 2019
4.0
Sep 2 2019
4.0
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Just-Fred
Aug 1 2019
4.0
Aug 1 2019
4.0
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