Brave is regarded as the best web browser for private browsing. If you are looking for the safest web browser for privacy, install Brave on Linux Ubuntu.
As per the official statement:
“Brave Search is the world’s most complete, independent, private search engine. By integrating Brave Search into its browser, Brave offers the first all-in-one browser / search alternative to the big tech platforms. Brave Search is available as the default search engine in Brave or most other major browsers, or via search.brave.com.”
Features of Brave Browser:
- AI-powered answers to almost any question, lightning fast and incredibly accurate. An independent index delivering actually useful results, without big tech’s SEO spam.
- Brave Search doesn’t track you, your searches, or your clicks. It’s impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your data, because we don’t collect it in the first place.
- Brave Search is available in any browser, at search.brave.com.
Release Channel Installation of Brave Browser
Ubuntu Linux users can run the following commands to install Release Channel version of Brave Web Browser on their systems. The same set of commands can also be used to install Brave browser on Debian and Linux Mint Systems.
NOTE: Brave is only supported on 64-bit AMD/Intel (amd64 / x86_64) and ARM (arm64 / aarch64) architectures.
Install Brave Browser on Debian, Ubuntu and Mint Systems
sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser
Beta Channel Installation – Debian, Ubuntu, Mint
Ubuntu Linux users can run the following commands to install Beta Channel version of Brave Web Browser on their systems. The same set of commands can also be used to install Brave browser on Debian and Linux Mint Systems.
sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-beta.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser-beta
Install Brave Browser on Fedora, Rocky/RHEL
sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo
sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc
sudo dnf install brave-browser
Install Brave Browser on OpenSUSE
sudo zypper install curl
sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc
sudo zypper addrepo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo
sudo zypper install brave-browser
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Brave browser from your Linux Ubuntu Systems, you can run the following commands:
snap remove --purge brave
sudo apt remove --autoremove brave-browser
sudo rm /etc/apt/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt-get update