Package Details: brave-bin 1:1.70.119-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brave-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brave-bin
Description: Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release)
Upstream URL: https://brave.com
Keywords: brave browser
Licenses: BSD, MPL2, custom:chromium
Conflicts: brave
Provides: brave, brave-browser
Submitter: toropisco
Maintainer: alerque (alosarjos)
Last Packager: alosarjos
Votes: 810
Popularity: 20.16
First Submitted: 2016-04-06 13:16 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-09-25 14:49 (UTC)

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Required by (10)

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Pinned Comments

alerque commented on 2021-11-27 03:11 (UTC)

@ant0n et all, lets keep the comments here about packaging issues, general Brave usage issues should go in another forum to not clutter up this comment space. I'm deleting comments that have no relation to packaging. Grey areas like crashes that could be blamed on Arch can stay until proven otherwise, but things like how to configure Brave to handle popups or site X or whatever just don't belong here. Thanks for understanding.

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alerque commented on 2021-07-23 18:56 (UTC)

@mixedCase Best of luck. NixOS is awesome by the way. If Arch were to loose me entirely to something at this point that is the most tempting alternative.

@alosarjos Thanks for that info, that's super helpful. Please do keep us posted here.

I'll probably push out a pkgrel bump to fix some packaging issues (e.g. the license file is not ending up in the right place and there are some other coding style cleanups I'd like to see) but I'll hold off pushing 1.27 until I get word or see it working better.

alosarjos commented on 2021-07-23 18:32 (UTC)

The chromium package in which Brave 1.27 is based has some issues on Linux with rendering and navigation if using systemd-resolved

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commits/packages/chromium/trunk

I'm not sure if pushin 1.27 is a good idea until these are fixed upstream. If I'm not mistaken the Arch Chromium package has added the upstream patches to fix them , but those are not available yet on a Chromium release and thus, are not available on the Brave release and would require a patched Chromium and rebuilidng brave.

mixedCase commented on 2021-07-23 17:59 (UTC)

@alerque TL;DR: I'm disowning this package and there's an update pending.

I pushed an update to version 1.27.108 after successfully checking brave://version and brave://gpu, and after I pushed I found out I was actually unable to load pages. I reverted the commit without pushing epoch since it was only 5 minutes, ran pacman -Syu just in case, rebooted and my system is now unbootable, failing to load kernel modules for whatever reason in both my lts and zen kernels. No will to debug this right now so I'm just going to nuke my Arch partition and move full time to NixOS.

I've unpinned the pinned comment since it's going to be out of date. Here's the one-liner for checking latest version in case it's useful:

curl https://brave-browser-downloads.s3.brave.com/latest/release.version

Thank you for offering to help!

mostafaroshdy1 commented on 2021-07-17 02:04 (UTC)

Thanks so much , keep it up

mixedCase commented on 2021-07-12 18:31 (UTC)

@alerque Added as co-maintainer, thanks!. Keeping it up to date is not a problem for me, but I'd rather not have a package with many users just left to luck of the draw if I'm no longer able to update it without testing it.

alerque commented on 2021-07-12 18:25 (UTC)

@mixedCase Yes I've had a look at the brave PKGBUILD already. It will need a bit of an overhaul before it's ready for [community]. Since I'm a pretty new TU I'm putting off that project until I know the ropes a bit better.

In the mean time feel free to add me as a co-maintainer if you want less pressure to update this one. I see folks are pretty demanding about it being fresh (to the point of obnoxious). But at least with a couple people ready to poke it you won't feel like you have to fire up another distro just for that. Also if you do disown it that will leave me as the maintainer by inheritance and I'll either run with it or help find a good home.

spsf64 commented on 2021-07-12 18:25 (UTC)

@alerque, thanks for the feedback! @mixedCase, agreed, brave is the one to be merged into community.

mixedCase commented on 2021-07-12 18:19 (UTC)

@alerque AUR package brave does just that with some manual patching, might be worth looking into. On an unrelated topic I'm doing some distrohopping and I may end up disowning this package. In case it comes to that if you'd rather have me notify you or some other TU in advance instead of doing it out of the blue, lmk.

alerque commented on 2021-07-12 18:06 (UTC) (edited on 2021-07-12 18:06 (UTC) by alerque)

@mgdobachesky @spsf64 I have an eye on it. Bringing it to [community] involves building Chromium though which is not trivial. You can't just cram an upstream binary from a -bin package in [community].

spsf64 commented on 2021-07-12 17:53 (UTC)

@mgdobachesky I agree 100%! Can't understand why Brave is not there yet... I'd rather have Brave instead of Vivaldi or Opera (found in std repos).

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