Brave Browser

[neko]

Brave Browser

004-brave-nightly-bin-1.33.23-x86_64-1.xzm (118 M)
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md5sum: 973bd1c3140fd739a5122a38f4fb2792 004-brave-nightly-bin-1.33.23-x86_64-1.xzm

Thanks.

[Kulle]

Hi neko,
brave-nightly doesn't work in Porteus 4.0
Activate Error: "Cannot read module data. Corrupted download?"

There are now only modules for Porteus 5.0 offered?

[babam]

Kulle, upgrade your kernel.

[Kulle]

Hi babam,
"upgrade your kernel" I have never done that. I'll deal with that soon.

For Porteus4.0
1.) download:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... _amd64.deb
2.) deb2xzm

[neko]

@Kulle
1.There are now only modules for Porteus 5.0 offered?
--->
Yes, it for 5.0 only.

2.Activate Error: "Cannot read module data. Corrupted download?"
--->
Because the XZM is the squashfs that was compressed with zstd.
zstd is not support at Porteus 4.0.

3. 004-brave-nightly-bin-1.33.23-x86_64-1.xzm and the XZM that was created from
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/ ... _amd64.deb
will need libxkbcommon.so library whose version mismatches Porteus 4.0.


Thanks.

[Kulle]

Hi neko,
thanks for the infos,
I use brave-browser-nightly_1.33.46_amd64.xzm in Porteus 4.0 (see #4 above).
and I have also installed libxkbcommon-1.0.3-alt1.x86_64.xzm for some time now,
because this is also required for the newer versions of Google chrome.

[maia]

Tks for Brave

[neko]

Brave Browser version 1.34.80 for Porteus 5.0rc3

004-brave-browser-1.34.80-linux-amd64.xzm (117 M)
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md5sum: 35d8e01cdf52a5e14f27425cac025978 004-brave-browser-1.34.80-linux-amd64.xzm

Thanks.

[Rava]

004-brave-browser-1.34.80-linux-amd64.xzm (117 M)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/yy1xw9n3 ... -amd64.xzm

Activated 004-brave-browser-1.34.80-linux-amd64.xzm Starting it via terminal fails.

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guest@porteus:~$ brave-browser
bash: brave-browser: command not found

Sadly, there is no link to /opt/brave/brave-browser, e.g. creating a simple symlink named /usr/bin/brave-browser that links to /opt/brave/brave-browser would do the trick.

Solution:

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root@porteus:~# cd /usr/bin/
root@porteus:/usr/bin# ln -s /opt/brave/brave-browser .
root@porteus:/usr/bin# ls -o brave-browser 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 24 Jan 19 17:49 brave-browser -> /opt/brave/brave-browser

Aside from that it then seems to run from the terminal:

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guest@porteus:~$ brave-browser
[3719:3719:0119/175046.697352:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "[Shields]: Can't request shields panel data for tabId: 2.  Error: No tab url specified", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (1)
[3719:3719:0119/175046.697506:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "[Shields]: Can't request shields panel data for tabId: 2.  Error: No tab url specified", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (1)
[3719:3719:0119/175046.697815:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "[Shields]: Can't request shields panel data for tabId: 2.  Error: No tab url specified", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (1)
[3719:3719:0119/175046.698134:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "[Shields]: Can't request shields panel data for tabId: 2.  Error: No tab url specified", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (1)
[3719:3867:0119/175049.775343:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(227)] START: ReportBluetoothAvailability(). If you don't see the END: message, this is crbug.com/1216328.
[3719:3867:0119/175049.775378:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(230)] END: ReportBluetoothAvailability()

[Ed_P]

It's in the Porteus' DE menu under Internet. But the Brave Rewards for viewing Brave Private Ads is a bit of a turn off. I prefer Firefox and it's StopAll Ads add-on.

[Rava]

It's in the Porteus' DE menu under Internet.

I saw the .desktop file in the module myself. But… how is what you wrote helping any trying to start it via terminal?

But the Brave Rewards for viewing Brave Private Ads is a bit of a turn off. I prefer Firefox and it's StopAll Ads add-on.

Not about rewards per se, but the add blocker seems to be an inferior one.
In Palemoon I use uMatrix and uBlockOrigin and most pages not complain ever about me using an add-blocker at all.

But the way Brave Browser's add blocker is set up (or functions), the very first site I tested it on printed a full screen overlay (blocking the page contents) complaining about me using an add blocker.

ADBLOCK DETECTED
Unfortunately AdBlock might cause a bad affect on displaying content of this website. Please, deactivate it.

I wonder if it's possible using uBlockOrigin as add-blocker in Brave instead of the one incorporated in it?
I recall there was an attempt in making the code workable for g-chrome, so if that was successful it should work on Brave as well, no?

[beny]

i have used a slackbuild version to build brave-browser that repack a rpm version, and it is an old version,so i have installed the neko's one that is a deb package and work if you want run brave from a terminal cd into the brave directory in /opt and you have one script that allow you to run the browser and the "exe"

[Rava]

^
or simply do as root

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cd /usr/bin/
ln -s /opt/brave/brave-browser .

In my book, to have to move into the binary folder of any program in order to start it via terminal is quite… how do I say that in a polite way? "Less convenient."
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Seems brave is as annoying in hogging the status as my default browser as chrome or chromium is.
Without me telling it to be my default browser, it still sets itself up as default browser in my system. Palemoon to stay the default browser

Thank you NOT very much, I prefer choosing for myself which browser should be the default, and I want Palemoon to stay the default browser. PM is loaded via boot and usually always started first. Sometimes I need a 2nd browser… and when its Chrom* based that jerk software is always setting itself up as the default without me saying so. That annoys me.
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Update
I just installed https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... -night-eye
Does anyone of you fine folks know which files I need to save into my 992-rootcopy_5.0rc3-RECENT.xzm module for saving such things?

I want to only save the bare minimum of needed files. ( Palemoon gets its own saved-settings-and-extensions file ) - All other programs go into 992-rootcopy_5.0rc3-RECENT.xzm . Hopefully what will be added by saving what's needed to have Brave remember the "dark-mode-night-eye" is not too large.

I presume all needed files (or subfolder(s) and files) are all in guest's ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser .

Sadly, the files in the subfolders of ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Local Extension Settings are cryptic and less helpful - none are able to tell me which extension they refer to.

Added in 3 minutes 28 seconds:
At least it is possible to figure out what ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Extensions/alncdjedloppbablonallfbkeiknmkdi is:

/home/guest/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Extensions/alncdjedloppbablonallfbkeiknmkdi/4.7.2_0/manifest.json says via grep default_title manifest.json

"default_title": "Night Eye"

Added in 7 minutes 40 seconds:
Hopefully this in /home/guest/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default

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.:
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 3 guest  4096 Jan 20 16:44 Extensions/
-rw------- 1 guest 27520 Jan 20 16:29 Preferences

Extensions/alncdjedloppbablonallfbkeiknmkdi/4.7.2_0/:
total 212
drwx------ 13 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 _locales/
drwx------  2 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 _metadata/
-rw-------  1 guest 183988 Jan 20 16:28 background.js
drwx------  3 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 css/
drwx------  3 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 html/
drwx------  4 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 js/992-rootcopy module
-rw-------  1 guest   2100 Jan 20 16:28 manifest.json
drwx------  3 guest   4096 Jan 20 16:28 res/

Is all I need to save… (fingers crossed, knocking on wood)

Added in 5 minutes 37 seconds:
To test my attempt, I

· copy all of /home/guest/.config/BraveSoftware/ to a /tmp folder on an ext[234] partition (as backup)
· deactivate the brave module
· remove all files and folders in /home/guest/.config/BraveSoftware/
· only copy the above mentioned files and folders back into /home/guest/.config/BraveSoftware/
· activate the brave module

test if extension "Night Eye" works as it should.

If not, I have to figure out what else files (and probably folders and files) I also have to save…

Added in 17 minutes 39 seconds:
For now, my 992-rootcopy module went up from a pleasant 56 KB to 360 KB

Me thinks after I figured out what needs to be saved from guest's ~/ for Brave to correctly recall "Night Mode", I will upgrade my main Brave module incorporating that stuff (including the root created symlink, see above) and leave it out of my 992-rootcopy module, reverting that back to its 56 KB. And I sure do not want any browser without the pleasant-for-the-eyes night mode.

Would be also nice to know how to kick Brave in its butt so that it NOT sets itself up as default browser, but as it seems, no one on here seems to know (I asked the same stuff about chrome and chromium, and all are chrome based browsers, so a solution to that for one variant should work for all, but sadly, I never got any helpful info on that.)

[neko]

Brave Browser version 1.34.81 for Porteus 5.0rc3

004-brave-browser-1.34.81-linux-amd64.xzm (117 M)
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md5sum: 5545b1a3554c803c5d2b585d9f568e39 004-brave-browser-1.34.81-linux-amd64.xzm


Thanks.

[neko]

Brave Browser version 1.35.100 for Porteus 5.0rc3.

004-brave-browser-1.35.100-linux-amd64.xzm (118 M)
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md5sum: 14fb771a88e8854bd3f1c9c4e5ab87ba 004-brave-browser-1.35.100-linux-amd64.xzm


Thanks.