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I saw a video about the Brave Browser ( https://brave.com/ ) and its operating philosophy. I was curious to see if it would operate in Puppylinux. The Debian install is a bit of a mystery from a Puppylnux user view: Can any one translate if this process is feasible? Thanks.

Debian 9+, Ubuntu 14.04+ and Mint 17+
If you get gnutls_handshake() errors after adding the Brave repository on Debian 9, you may need to uninstall old conflicting packages.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.br ... e-core.asc | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/brave-browser-release.gpg add -

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:59 pm Hiya, guys.
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Anyways; anybody wants to try this out, you can get the latest one here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

MD5 sum included. Enjoy!


Mike.

gychang wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:30 am just to update on my brave install in my main PC, with Bionicpup64 after a frugal install. I have found downloads are problematic. With the main brave folder in /opt with application launcher brave-pup in /usr/bin linked back to the /opt/brave. The brave browser work as expected (fast), but I get a warning "permission not granted" when I try to download a file. Will not download to ~/Downloads or even to "spot" folder. I use Palemoon when I have to download... Likely due to running as a root in puppy.

chown -R spot:spot /home/spot

chown -R spot:spot /root/spot

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:29 am

gychang wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:30 am
Yes, this does occasionally happen. It even happens to me, and I've been setting a lot of these browsers up to run as spot for quite some time....

Run this in the terminal:-

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chown -R spot:spot /home/spot

It just resets the correct permissions on the 'spot' folder (/root/spot is sym-linked into this in Bionicpup64). You may need to set permissions for the sym-link, too:-

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chown -R spot:spot /root/spot

Mike.

thanks!, now download without any problem.

on Jan 03, 2021, https://nordvpn.com/blog/best-privacy-browser/ reported:
"Recently, Brave was caught autocompleting URLs of certain cryptocurrency sites with their affiliate links and profiting from it. A Twitter user discovered this when he tried accessing binance.us, which Brave filled with their affiliate link. This granted Brave commissions for every visit using the link. While this was not technically a grave privacy violation, it raises questions about the transparency of this browser. Therefore, we have decreased the rating by one star."
Very forgiving on Nordvpn's part. It wasn't depending on Brave for either accuracy or privacy. I am less inclined to forgive an organization which breaches its user's trust.

Just Enough to Wet My Beak.

Recommended alternative: viewtopic.php?p=18334#p18334: Gab striped-out the gimmicks from Brave; but left everything else including, Brave's GUI. Probably violates copyright laws. So get it while you can. .
Or ungoogled-Chromium if you have fossapup64; or Iron, or falkon, or LibreWolf, or ...

Hi All, here's Brave-Portable64 appimage, made from brave-browser-beta (64-bit).
Version 1.27.100 Chromium: 91.0.4472.124 . From extracted .deb package, see: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... /v1.27.100
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=down ... vxRcum1h4h
EDIT: re-uploaded with fix, download link replaced: "Brave-Portable64" should appear now in Menu > Internet on Puppy (after launching the appimage).

Make it executable before running.
Widevine should be operational, profile folder "brave-profile" will appear at the same level as the appimage, once launched.
Also "Brave-Portable64" .desktop launcher will be created in ~/.local/share/applications, so it should appear in the Menu.

Fred

Great, thanks a lot Fred, works very well on easypup.

@fredx181 :-

fredx181 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:43 am

Hi All, here's Brave-Portable64 appimage, made from brave-browser-beta (64-bit).
Version 1.27.100 Chromium: 91.0.4472.124 . From extracted .deb package, see: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... /v1.27.100
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=down ... CdG8ts5N9u
Make it executable before running.
Widevine should be operational, profile folder "brave-profile" will appear at the same level as the appimage, once launched.
Also "Brave-Portable64" .desktop launcher will be created in ~/.local/share/applications, so it should appear in the Menu.

Fred

Hey, nice one, Fred. I could never get WideVine to function properly in this.....or rather, it WOULD (but only ever for the current session). It always wanted to re-download & re-install WideVine EVERY time you wanted to use it..!

One small point? The Menu Entry isn't EVER going to show.....not in a month of Sundays. No "Category" is defined, so Pup doesn't know where to put it....

Posting from it now. Cheers for this!

Mike.

Hi Mike,

One small point? The Menu Entry isn't EVER going to show.....not in a month of Sundays. No "Category" is defined, so Pup doesn't know where to put it....

Hmmm.. yes, didn't really test that on Puppy, I was assuming too easily that it would work, I will try to fix that, get back later about it.
The .desktop launcher should be created in ~/.local/share/applications, all it needs is adding e.g.:
Categories=X-Internet-browser and run fixmenus and jwm -reload

Thanks for reporting!

Fred

fredx181 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 2:10 pm

Hi Mike,

One small point? The Menu Entry isn't EVER going to show.....not in a month of Sundays. No "Category" is defined, so Pup doesn't know where to put it....

Hmmm.. yes, didn't really test that on Puppy, I was assuming too easily that it would work, I will try to fix that, get back later about it.
The .desktop launcher should be created in ~/.local/share/applications, all it needs is adding e.g.:
Categories=X-Internet-browser and run fixmenus and jwm -reload

Thanks for reporting!

Fred

Aye, that's exactly what I did. Just thought you should be aware of it, that's all.

Mike.

Download link for Brave Browser portable appimage replaced Here.
See at "EDIT:" Fixed, it should add a menu entry now (in category "Internet").

Fred

@puppytrue :-

You don't really gain anything by trying to use the "nightlies", y'know. They're SO 'bleeding-edge' & unstable that they're apt to just crash without warning, half the time.....

Bit like going back in time 10 years, as far as I'm concerned. To the days when Firefox just repeatedly crashed over & over again, dozens of times a day.....whenever it felt like it, really.

(Most of those terminal commands you find on blog sites are for mainstream distros. They won't work in Puppy, cos Puppy doesn't use the same package-management infrastructure, y'see....)

Mike.

@puppytrue See here for brave-browser-nightly: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/
Direct link to .deb package v1.29.34; https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... _amd64.deb

puppytrue wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:59 am

thanks.

How make hime more secure ?

viewtopic.php?p=18576#p18576
The solution -- the stripped brave-browser known as dissenter, viewtopic.php?p=684#p684, made even more secure by adding extensions, viewtopic.php?p=19203#p19203

Or use Ungoogled chromium or iron, or especially Mike Walsh's Iron-Chroot.

puppytrue wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:53 pm

fredx181 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:44 pm

@puppytrue See here for brave-browser-nightly: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/
Direct link to .deb package v1.29.34; https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... _amd64.deb

In Puli is no install. Where .sfs or .pet or .deb or folder ready to use in PuliPuppy 7.3 ?

Not sure what you mean by "no install". Above .deb that I linked to doesn't work ? Details please!
Other way to try could be to download the .zip here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/ extract it in some dir and run brave from terminal standing in this dir (with --no-sandbox perhaps: ./brave --no-sandbox or with run-as-spot: run-as-spot ./brave)

From 3 days ago latest release v1.35.101

(puppy-common64-official) install-brave-0.5 package misses this very release tag, and attempts to install a slackware one: 1.23.71 , why? I couldn't "translate" the sh script, and "push" some lines of code.

I am using FP64 and downloaded Brave-Portable but fails to sign in to google account. Has anyone know a fix OR direct me to a recent brave browser that work in FP64? I was able to use an older brave-1.16.75-1-fossap64_A.sfs that does work...

https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... ogle#p8350
Might be related to this issue.

@gychang :-

Greg, try this out for size. I've put together a bang-up-to-date Brave browser in my standard 'portable' format.

Please note:- I am NOT, currently, intending to make this a regular build. I've got enough other browsers to maintain as it is, so I'm not looking to add to the collection! IF it should prove to be popular enough, I may change course on this one, but.....we'll see how it goes, first.

This runs as spot, and contains its own 'mini-spot' directory within the 'PROFILE' directory. It appears to run fine, and Widevine has been included if you need it. The first time you want to use Widevine for anything, Brave will insist on popping-up a notification to say it needs installing; if you let it do this, it won't work correctly.....the Brave devs still haven't got this working right, despite it being a very straight-forward procedure! There's an easy-to-implement 'workaround' for this, which involves creating a small text file within your profile; if anyone needs this, I'll be happy to detail what needs doing.

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As always with the 'portables'; d/l - unzip - move the portable's directory wherever you want to run it from, though outside the 'save' is preferable. Click to enter, then click on 'LAUNCH' to fire it up AS a 'portable'.

Scripts permit adding a Menu entry for better system integration, should one be required. The 'MenuReadMe' explains how to use these.

If interested, you can find the download here: https://mega.nz/folder/CPxnQQIJ#9jWxpqpaKUWCFjA-ayteQQ

Enjoy. Any problems, drop me a line.

Mike.

mikewalsh wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:04 pm

@gychang :-

Greg, try this out for size. I've put together a bang-up-to-date Brave browser in my standard 'portable' format.

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As always with the 'portables'; d/l - unzip - move the portable's directory wherever you want to run it from, though outside the 'save' is preferable. Click to enter, then click on 'LAUNCH' to fire it up AS a 'portable'.

Scripts permit adding a Menu entry for better system integration, should one be required. The 'MenuReadMe' explains how to use these.

If interested, you can find the download here: https://mega.nz/folder/CPxnQQIJ#9jWxpqpaKUWCFjA-ayteQQ

Enjoy. Any problems, drop me a line.

Mike.

Brave seems to work well in fossapup64, downloads to spot but no problem. Which one is the latest vivaldi?, like to compare the two. (I get confused about all the vivaldis running around for the pup...

Afternoon, gang.

I've just made an interesting discovery. Those of you using Brave may have noticed - on the "New Tab" page - that amongst other things down in the bottom right corner, where all the various icons that control stuff live, there's an icon for making private video calls.

If you go through the steps for this, and bring up the video-call interface......it's Jitsi! Brave have got their browser set-up to make use of the Jitsi webapp (which just happens to be about the best open-source video-calling app there is, IMHO. Super-clear picture, and very little in the way of noticeable video "lag". Audio's nice'n'clean, too!) So, kudos to Brave for making that decision.

(You can confirm this for yourselves. Once you have the Brave video-call "app" up-and-running, go to

https://meet.jit.si/

.....in another tab. Select "Start Meeting" in the top corner, then follow the steps to get started. Once that's up-and-running, compare the two. They're identical!)

I thought it looked familiar.....

Mike.

Evening, gang.

Despite what I said above, here's an updated Brave-portable. It's now at v1.38.104 (I've been testing this 'Beta'-channel build for a few days now, and it seems pretty stable).

Download link, and usage instructions, are as in the post a few above this one. Enjoy!

Mike.