brave/brave-browser
Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 99 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #68 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Builds and maintains the Brave desktop browser across macOS, Windows, and Linux platforms using Chromium as its core.
- Integrates privacy-focused features like an ad-block engine and patches to Chromium for enhanced security and user control.
- Use for developing a privacy-centric web browser with built-in ad blocking and tracking protection.
- Use for customizing and extending Chromium-based browsers with additional security and privacy patches.
- Use for building cross-platform desktop browser applications leveraging Chromium's rendering engine and Brave's privacy enhancements.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Weak copyleft: changes to the licensed code itself must be shared when you distribute it, but code that merely uses it can stay under your own license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
You can visit our website to get the latest stable release.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
3.3K+89
Open issues
12.3K+1.7K
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5.8K | +2.0K | 45 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| brave/brave-browser | 24.1K | — | 35 | today |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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