{"id":289692,"date":"2018-12-14T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=289692"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T07:37:19","slug":"brave-browser-switches-base-code-to-chromium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/289692-brave-browser-switches-base-code-to-chromium.html","title":{"rendered":"Brave browser switches base code to Chromium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brave browser has announced that it will fully switch to a Chromium base in its latest release, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2018\/12\/14\/brave-browser-follows-edges-lead-and-switches-to-chromium-code-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TheNextWeb reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brave used Chromium code since its inception in 2016, but used the Muon library for its UI.<\/p>\n<p>Brave joins the likes of Chrome, Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi to use Google&#8217;s open source Chromium as the base code for their browser.<\/p>\n<p>Version 0.57, the upcoming version that will use Chromium, will also support Chrome extensions and will categorise extensions as &#8220;allowed and vetted&#8221;, &#8220;allowed and unvetted&#8221;, and &#8220;blocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brave, which blocks ads and website trackers, highlighted how the browser won&#8217;t connect to Google in the background.<\/p>\n<p>This will include the disabling of Google Accounts and Google&#8217;s sync function.<\/p>\n<p>Google will also not be used for search suggestions &#8211; instead, Brave will use the Alexa top sites list as well as your currently-open tabs and local history.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/289674-microsoft-working-on-consumer-version-of-365.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft working on consumer version of 365<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave joins the likes of Chrome, Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi in using Google&#8217;s Chromium base code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":213594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35085,1567,37194,15725,207,29740],"class_list":["post-289692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-brave","tag-chrome","tag-chromium","tag-edge","tag-opera","tag-vivaldi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289698,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289692\/revisions\/289698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}