I found the download was pretty speedy but your experience will vary, of course. You’ll need to confirm your administrative access by typing in your system (root) password, then it’ll start downloading in preparation for the Brave install: From this point, simply click on the green “ Install” button. I wonder what people who don’t give it 5-stars are expecting, but that’s another story. Looks good and 4/5 stars isn’t too bad as a user rating. Easy, right?Ĭlick on the Brave entry to learn more about the browser and get to that all-important ‘install’ button: All neat and handy in the Ubuntu Software program. You can get sidetracked seeing what’s new for your Linux system, but let’s stay focused! Click on the tiny magnifying lens icon on the top left, then search for “brave”:

So close that Web page (yes, viewed from within Firefox above) and open up Ubuntu Software: The easiest way to install Brave is to go to the Brave Web site from your Ubuntu Linux system and choose Download on the top right of the home page…īut I’m going to actually recommend against this approach because I think it’s better and cleaner to actually use the Ubuntu Software Manager within Ubuntu Linux instead. HOW TO INSTALL BRAVE WEB BROWSER IN LINUX Your Web browser is such a critical element of any modern online experience that you really need it to be up-to-date with the latest specs and systems, carefully designed to let you manage your privacy, and both memory and speed efficient so that the user experience is excellent. Your browser should not spy on your online behavior… Brave respects your privacy by shielding you from the surveillance economy.”Īppealing, eh? Now, to be fair, Firefox has its own development team and while it may seem a few years behind, it really isn’t and particularly on Linux, it is the default Web browser for a reason.

As the developers say, “You are not a product.

No tracking cookies, no creepy ads that stay the same regardless of what Web site you visit, all of that’s automatically masked and blocked by Brave. For those of you who don’t know, Brave is a new cross-OS Web browser that’s built with privacy front and center. We should get along just fine! The good news is that not only is the Brave Web Browser available for your Linux distro, but it’s also available across quite a wide variety of Linux versions too.

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