How to Install Brave Browser In Linux Mint

Brave is an open-source, cross-platform, and free web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave web browser mainly focuses on privacy, this browser automatically blocks online advertisements and trackers on websites in settings that come in default.

The brave browser blocks all creepy ads from every website by default. And that thing where ads follow you across the internet? Brave blocks advertisements and trackers, too.  block ads & trackers so that you experience faster page load, better power management, and even less data usage.

Features of Brave :

• ad-blocking
• incognito windows
• private search
• Cross-site trackers blocked
• Cookies blocked
• Fingerprinting blocked
• Malware & phishing protection*
• Protections against bounce tracking
• VPN (Virtual Private Network)
• Anonymized network routing (Tor mode)

Installing brave in linux mint using terminal :

Step 1:

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

Step 2:

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
 

Step 3:

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

Step 4:

sudo apt update

Step 5:

sudo apt-get update updates this on your local system. This is the step that actually retrieves information about what packages can be installed, including what updates to currently installed packages packages are available, from Internet sources.

sudo apt install brave-browser

After executing this command press Y and then Enter.

It will take around 5 minutes for the installation of the Brave browser depending on your internet connection speed to complete on your Linux Mint 20 system.

Step 6:

Once the Brave browser is installed on your Linux Mint 20 system, you can easily check its version with the help of following command:

brave --version

The version of the Brave browser installed on Linux system is 90.1.24.86.

You can even launch the Brave browser from your Linux terminal with the command below:

brave

The welcome page of the Brave browser is shown in the following image:

Now you can simply run this command so that you can quickly remove the Brave browser from your Linux Mint 20 system. All you have to do is to execute the below command:

sudo apt remove brave