JavaScript creator released his browser: fast and with ad blocker

The creator of the JavaScript programming language and the former head of the Mozilla Foundation, Brendan Ike, has released a new browser called Brave, based on the Chromium codebase. So far, the novelty has the status of "beta" and it can be downloaded from the official website of the company Brave Software , which is currently managed by Ike. There are browser versions for a wide range of platforms: Windows, Linux, OS X, as well as for mobile OS - Android and iOS. Brave sources are available on GitHub ( iOS , Win / OS X / Linux , Android ). Download the ready-made Brave assembly and try it out right away until it fails, since you will need to leave an email and wait for the download link.

The main advantages of the browser developers call the speed of its work and the security of user data. Website loading speed is caused by the fact that by default Brave has enabled ad blocking and due to this, pages on average load 1.4 times faster for the desktop version of the browser. For the mobile version of Brave, the work speed is even higher - it can surpass competitors by 2 or even 4 times. An example of synchronous download of the same site in a mobile Safari and Brave is shown in the video.

Because Brave by default blocks ad scripts, it is thus also a safer browser in terms of how it can handle user data. In addition, the well-known HTTPS Everywhere extension is integrated into Brave, which allows you to forcefully use a secure connection on those sites where it is available, even if the resource for some reason uses plain HTTP.
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Monetization Brave will not be fast and quite unusual. When the audience of the browser exceeds 10 million users, Brendan Ike will still offer users limited advertising, which will be generated based on what sites a person visits or how much time they spend on them. However, Brave will not leave or collect any user identifiers like cookies. As compensation, some of the revenue from such “fuzzy” advertising will later be returned to users to a special account, which they can use to pay advertisers for disabling it.

Brendan Ike became the head of Mozilla in March 2014, but after a short time he was forced to leave the company due to the pressure on him of the LGBT community. They were unhappy that at one time Ike donated a thousand dollars to promote an amendment to the constitution of the state of California, which defines marriage only as a union between a man and a woman.