

Does Brave block ads within search results? (By comparison, Google's Chrome launched in September 2008 and Microsoft's Edge traces its lineage to July 2015.) The firm was co-founded by Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and a co-founder of Mozilla, after he left that browser vendor under pressure for supporting California's 2008 Proposition 8, a ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage. Its maker, Brave Software, is among the newer entries in the browser battles, having previewed the browser in January 2016. Like other browsers, it is free to download and use, remembers site authentication information, and can block online ads from appearing on sites. What is the Brave browser?īrave is a more-or-less standard browser that lets users navigate to websites, run web apps, and display online content. The Brave browser can show users how many ad trackers (and ads) have been blocked.

(If you do decide to try it out, download information is detailed below.) Brave Here's what you need to know to decide whether Brave's for you. Tab that opens, click on Search in the left pane.Computerworld took a deep dive into Brave to figure out what it is, what it does and how it does it. Click the menu button and select Settings.

To find these search engines and add them to Firefox:

Many providers offer search engine add-ons. When you click on an available search plugin, you can add it to Firefox from the Search bar or from the address bar context menu, on the Install plugin page. The Mycroft Project website offers search engine plugins.
