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Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Electron and Chromium are both open source, unlike Chrome, although development is stil
by mcbits 7y ago
Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Electron and Chromium are both open source, unlike Chrome, although development is still concentrated in Google and GitHub/Microsoft. So I imagine it's fine unless something egregious happens with those projects and there isn't a strong enough community to maintain a clean fork.
- krn 7y ago> Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Brave has been built directly upon Chromium since December 2018[1]. [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/brave-browser-goes-full-chromium-by-adopting-google-ui.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/brave-browser-...
- mcbits 7y agoOops! I actually thought about double-checking that before writing it, but I vaguely remember reading some list of reasons why they had initially gone with Electron instead of Chromium, so I assumed it was still true.