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Brave 1.77.95

Brave Browser is a lightning-fast, secure web browser that stands out from the competition with its focus on privacy, security, and speed. With features like HTTPS Everywhere and built-in tracker blocking, Brave keeps your online activities safe from prying eyes. Brave is one of the safest browsers on the market today. It blocks third-party data storage. It protects from browser fingerprinting. And it does all this by default.

Speed - Brave is built on Chromium, the same technology that powers Google Chrome, and is optimized for speed, providing a fast and responsive browsing experience.

Brave Browser also features Brave Rewards, a system that rewards users with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for viewing opt-in ads. This innovative system provides an alternative revenue model for content creators and a way to support the Brave community.

Brave 1.77.95 changelog:

Web3

  • Added Zcash shielded support. (#44432)
  • Added a prompt to "Select Account" when clicking "Swap" or "Bridge" from the "Portfolio" page. (#43441)
  • Updated Brave Wallet to check portfolio balance using optimized balance scanner. (#44018)
  • Updated UI to always display "Buy", "Send", "Swap", "Bridge", and "Deposit" in the "Asset Details" screen. (#43198)
  • Expanded tokens list to fetch top 5000 ranked tokens. (#44019)
  • Fixed Web3 DApp explorer section to list DApps. (#44929)

Leo

  • Added the ability to show/hide reasoning for supported models like Deepseek. (#43497)
  • Added "Qwen 14B" to the list of pre-loaded models. (#43677)
  • Updated Leo to show web sources used to generate query response from Brave Search. (#39630)

Rewards

  • Added "Next earnings payout date" to the "Home" view. (#43715)

General

  • Added "Use Vertical Tabs" option to the toolbar context menu. (#41721)
  • [Security] Updated brave://downloads to always display the download URL as reported on HackerOne by cj27_. (#43501)
  • [Security] Prevent extensions from injecting content scripts on https://account.brave.com as reported on HackerOne by newfunction. (#42998)
  • Enabled on-device suggestions model for all search providers. (#43762)
  • Updated default search engine to Yahoo! JAPAN for new installations in Japan region. (#44148)
  • Updated the Safe Browsing "Standard protection" setting description under brave://settings/security. (#44377)
  • Updated the focus border color on the URL bar to match user selected theme. (#44389)
  • Updated icons on the Tab Groups menu. (#43792)
  • Updated menu icon on the Extensions drop down. (#43872)
  • Updated header order displayed on brave://settings. (#43718)
  • Fixed crash which could occur when unlocking 1Password extension on macOS in certain cases. (#44210)
  • Fixed performance/animation jank when dragging tabs in vertical tab mode. (#44050)
  • Fixed issue where some pinned tabs are hidden at startup in vertical tab mode on Windows. (#44276)
  • Fixed detached window being hidden during tab dragging when in vertical tab mode. (#44397)
  • Fixed detached tab in new window not being rendered properly until releasing the mouse press when using vertical tab mode. (#44032)
  • Fixed inability to resize sidebar panels in certain cases. (#43507)
  • Fixed issue where various websites were broken with fingerprinting protections enabled. (#43555)
  • Fixed hamburger menu being cut off in certain locales on Windows and Linux. (#41364)
  • Upgraded Chromium to 135.0.7049.52. (#45124)