Brave browser is an open-source web browser that's built on Blink engine, which is also the engine powering Google's Chrome developed by Brendan Eich, the co-founder of the Mozilla project and creator of JavaScript.
The chromium based browser claims to block web tracking and remove intrusive Internet advertisements to improve online privacy, and also share far less data with advertising customers.
While the latest version of the Brave browser released on Thursday adds a technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs, which feature Mozilla had earlier announced coming to Firefox in collaboration with Tor Project.
Mozilla described it as an Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox, because it’s a more stable development cycle that will only patches bugs and won’t add new features for 11 months, which means it doesn’t disrupt how the Tor Browser works, and the Tor Project developers won’t have to integrate new features into their browser on regular basis.
Brave, however became the first conventional browser to have Tor abilities built in, and have beaten Mozilla to the launch, even with its tightened alliance with Tor in 2016 through a project called Tor Uplift, which is now branded Project Fusion.
Albeit, the Tor-based private tabs in Brave are only available in the browser versions for Windows and MacOS for now.
The Tor technology will provide better protections to Brave users against network surveillance, and makes it more difficult for ISPs or Wi-Fi providers to track users data.
So if you want more privacy online, Brave, the self-acclaimed ad-blocking browser, has a new capability to get it done on the web.
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