It's Official!!! Brave Browser newest release version 1.4.96 is now available for update or download. With this update, new improvements and changes like "Fixes in Wayback Machine", "Auto Crash Fixes" and more.

Here are the new updates according to brave browser GitHub release channel:

#8419 - Fixed Wayback Machine connections not going through Tor when checking for archived pages while in a Tor window.

Some users found-out a privacy concern that the Wayback Machine function is requesting to https://brave-api.archive.org/ that doesn't go through TOR while using private (TOR) on brave v1.4.95. Fortunately, this new update is fixed.

Reproduced Error (https://brave-api.archive.org/) on Brave v1.4.95

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Fix Error on Brave v1.4.96

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#7866 - Fixed crash when calculating the winning page classification category in certain cases.

According to tmancey, brave crashes when brave decides which ads to show to the user. This Error was invoked on Brave v1.5.x on Mobile and v1.4.95 on Desktop.

#8325 - Fixed sync crash when multiple bookmarks have the same object id.

According to darkdh, the error was found in Brave v1.4.95 when a user copies a bookmark, the meta-information is also copied which results in the same object ID for multiple bookmarks.

#4621 - Fixed audio not being played on meet.google.com and other sites due to AutoPlay being blocked.

An Error found only in Brave v1.4.95, the auto-play audio/sound is disabled for meet.google.com.

#8282 - Fixed button padding on the "Top sites removed." confirmation modal under New Tab Pages.

Error Found - No Padding

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Error Found - Fix Padding

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#8499 - Upgraded Chromium to 80.0.3987.132.

You can Download Brave Browser v1.4.96 at: