Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup

Post by manyoso » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

rockdoe wrote: post #3

https://github.com/brave/browser-ios "Firefox for iOS" They forgot to remove the branding from their "new" browser.

Post by Touche » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

Post by Nursie » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #9

abhv wrote: post #2

How will Brave prevent anti-ad-blocking mechanisms from interfering with the page? For example, cbs/abc/nbc seem to detect muBlock and then stop serving content.

This is the most annoying thing about ad blocking going mainstream. It was a rare site that bothered to detect us before Apple got into the game.

Post by ainar-g » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

rockdoe wrote: post #6

m52go wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a mistake. Firefox is referenced throughout the documentation. Looks like Brave is built on top of it.

Venturebeat claims it's based on Chromium, but they also seem to be pretty confused because they're calling it "a brand new browser, because (builing on top of existing browsers) would imply limited functionality by virtue of their application programming interfaces (APIs) and less impressive performance gains" http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/brave-browser/ So it's Chrome on Desktop, Firefox for iOS on iOS?

Post by Jgrubb » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

Touche wrote: post #13

The scrolling on this website is janky as hell. Looks like they are using some "Smooth scrolling" plugin that makes scrolling not smooth at all. Not sure why native browser scrolling was insufficient for them, I'm scrolling here in HN all the time and it's perfectly smooth.