Though the team working on Brave seems to have a few ex-Mozilla engineers, they have chosen to fork browsers other Firefox. (Also, nice to see so many Canadians

Though the team working on Brave seems to have a few ex-Mozilla engineers, they have chosen to fork browsers other Firefox. (Also, nice to see so many Canadians!) 'Brave browser promises faster Web by banishing intrusive ads' | Jan 20, 2016 http://www.cnet.com/news/ex-mozilla-ceo-try-braves-new-browser-for-a-faster-private-web/ http://www.cnet.com/news/ex-mozilla-ceo-try-braves-new-brows... > Eich and his team built Brave out of Chromium, which is the foundation for Google's Chrome browser, which leaves most of the actual development and security support to Google. Why not use Firefox, into which Eich poured so much effort? Because Chrome is more widely used and therefore better tested by developers who want to make sure their websites work properly, he said. "Chromium is the safe bet for us," he said. * The desktop browser is a cross-platform desktop application created with a fork of Github's Electron framework that is itself based on Node.js and Chromium. https://github.com/brave/electron https://github.com/brave/electron https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop * The iOS browser is a fork of Firefox for iOS, which is a Swift app developed from scratch by Mozilla. https://github.com/brave/browser-ios https://github.com/brave/browser-ios * The Android browser is Link Bubble, which is a wrapper around the default Android browser https://github.com/brave/browser-android https://github.com/brave/browser-android Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453897 Australian developer Chris Lacy announced its sale in Aug 2015: http://theblerg.net/post/2015/08/05/ive-sold-link-bubble-tappath-and-all-related-assets http://theblerg.net/post/2015/08/05/ive-sold-link-bubble-tap... * The ad blocking technology is courtesy a Node.js module of Adblock Plus filter that uses a bloom filter and Rabin-Karp algorithm for speed. https://github.com/bbondy/abp-filter-parser-cpp https://github.com/bbondy/abp-filter-parser-cpp * The database is MongoDB. https://github.com/brave/vault https://github.com/brave/vault Past news coverage: ​Mystery startup from ex-Mozilla CEO aims to go where tech titans won't | Nov 17, 2015 http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-startup-from-ex-mozilla-ceo-aims-to-go-where-tech-titans-wont/ http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-startup-from-ex-mozilla-ceo... Use Link Bubble to open links in the background on Android | Aug 26, 2015 http://www.cnet.com/how-to/use-link-bubble-to-open-links-in-the-background-on-android/ http://www.cnet.com/how-to/use-link-bubble-to-open-links-in-...