Users previously on Muon will enjoy the same great privacy and security features they expect from Brave but will also notice the following new features:

Tab shape and color changes

Brave Shields menu inside the URL bar on the right, alongside Brave Rewards

Light and dark themes built into Settings

More efficient ad blocking, done on the network thread

Improved private windows and private windows with Tor

The new version of Brave is based on the same Chromium source code as Chrome, but unlike Google’s browser, Brave doesn’t make any connections to Google in the background. We’ve disabled Google Accounts and Sync and removed all the Chrome-specific telemetry and reporting code. Google isn’t used for search suggestions either — Brave relies on an offline Alexa top sites list in addition to your open tabs and history stored only on your device.

This new Chromium-based browser was made available to developers and early adopters on September 6th, and then as an initial beta for a larger base on September 27th. It replaced the Muon version on the Brave download site on October 18th. Developers can continue to see the latest advances in Brave’s Build Channels, which feature the Brave Dev and Brave Beta builds. Developers who would like to file issues can post them here.

If you are experiencing any issues with this upgrade or wish to send us feedback, please contact our Community forum. In the next several weeks, we will be releasing another milestone on our path to Brave 1.0, which will feature cross-platform sync.

For information about our release schedule, please visit: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Release-Schedule

A detailed rundown of the roadmap is available here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Roadmap