brave-portable VS brave-browser

I really don't think you need to suffer... I have dozens of portable apps on my work PC. As long as the app doesn't require admin permissions you can usually run it. Try out Brave portable and see if it works: https://portapps.io/app/brave-portable/

https://portapps.io/app/brave-portable/ https://www.opera.com/browsers/portable

Really, I'm preparing to use a static version of Brave (portable apps) until things stabilize. It's Brave with a bunch of command line override switches. Still worried about the plugins auto-updating though.

One example: https://github.com/portapps/brave-portable

FU MS.

Apart from severely going thru the settings, take a look at the "brave://flags/" (no quotes), for more advanced ways to break things.

https://portapps.io/app/brave-portable/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...

You'll notice the actual patching itself is introduced with the caveat:

Brave browser, which blocks ads and trackers, grew to over 50 million monthly active users in 2023 while enabling privacy-first models to counter Google's search and Chrome browser ecosystem.

Still waiting on the Brave stable release with the patched version of chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/35013

Manually download the standalone version from: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.61.101 and update it that way.

Upgraded Chromium to 120.0.6099.71. (#34740) (Changelog for 120.0.6099.71)

Brave Github repository

For those looking for a fix: Use the latest Nightly Build for Brave.

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