Privacy-focused browser Brave has finished the final phase of a two-stage process and has now migrated most of its userbase to a full Chromium codebase, the same one used by Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, and soon, Edge.
The new codebase translates to a 22 percent speed boost, if we’re to believe the Brave team’s word, but also means that the Brave browser is compatible with native Chrome extensions.
After users update to Brave 0.57, they’ll be able to head on to the Chrome Web Store and install any of the extensions they want.
BRAVE NEVER WENT FULL-CHROMIUM, UNTIL NOW
We realize that this article might confuse some of the ZDNet readership, who will point out that Brave was already running on top of the Chromium codebase –the open source browser on which Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, and soon Edge, are all built.
This is only partially true. Since 2016, when the Brave browser was first announced, Brave used only Chromium’s page rendering engine but deployed a custom component for the browser’s user interface.
