Brave Browser Updates

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.74.50​

Full Release Notes​

• Upgraded Chromium to 132.0.6834.111. (#43424) (Changelog for 132.0.6834.111)
  

Release Channel 1.74.50  

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.74.51​

Full Release Notes​

• Upgraded Chromium to 132.0.6834.160. (#43550) (Changelog for 132.0.6834.160)
  

Release Channel 1.74.51

[Kool]

Brave 1.75.175

Release Channel  v1.75.175 

 Web3

• Added Zcash “Deposit” modal. (#42221)
  
• Added “Shielded” label to all shielded ZEC tokens in Brave Wallet. (#42285)
  
• Added support for resolving new Unstoppable Domains TLDs. (#42368)
  
• Added a prompt to “Select Account” when clicking “Send” from the “Portfolio” page. (#43131)
  
• Added a “Memo” field to the Zcash transaction’s “Confirm Transaction” screen. (#42078)
  
• Added a “Memo” field to the Zcash transaction’s “Send” screen. (#41986)
  
• Added the “Activity” tab to the “Portfolio” segmented control on full page view. (#43024)
  
• Removed the “Bridge to Aurora” button. (#42943)
  
• Updated “Portfolio” page to always display “Buy”, “Send”, “Swap”, “Deposit”, and “Bridge” buttons. (#43073)
  
• Fixed Brave icon being cut off on the wallet unlock screen. (#42866)
  
• Fixed broken gas slider track under the “Edit” gas fee screen. (#42775)
  

Rewards

• Added Web Discovery Project opt-in prompt during Brave Rewards onboarding. (#43757)
  
• Implemented Brave Rewards 3.0, a completely redesigned user experience for Brave Rewards including an “Explore” page and many other new elements (being rolled out in phases using Griffin starting at 25%). (#43756)
  

Leo

• Implemented full page chat for Brave Leo. (#42844)
  
• Added support to install Brave Leo as a Progressive Web App (PWA). (#42701)
  
• Added support to save Brave Leo conversation history. (#42576 & #42854)
  
• Added support to retain Brave Leo conversation history between browser restarts. (#42800)
  
• Added a page context toggle under the chat sidebar. (#42982)
  
• Added URL based routing for Brave Leo chats. (#42055)
  
• Added support for custom site distillers. (#40794)
  
• Updated Brave Leo URL to chrome://leo-ai. (#42817)
  
• Updated the Progressive Web App (PWA) icons for Brave Leo and the password manager. (#43114)
  

General

• Added the ability to capture a screenshot using “Ctrl+Shift+S” on Windows and Linux and “Cmd+Shift+S” on macOS. (#42682)
  
• Added support for deep linking to the Search Engine edit popup in settings. (#42999)
  
• Added a warning when disabling Manifest V2 uBlock Origin via brave://settings/extensions/v2. (#42608)
  
• Added right click context menu for vertical tab bar. (#41825)
  
• Added the ability for users to load custom adblock scriptlets under brave://settings/shields/filters. (#25586)
  
• Added per-site farbling token support. (#28904)
  
• Added brave://flags/#block-all-cookies-toggle to enable the ability to block all cookies. (#42061)
  
• Added a keyboard shortcut for exporting all bookmarks. (#41412)
  
• Added a command line switch to disable user education popups. (#43481)
  
• [Security] Fixed issue where audio was not being farbled in certain cases as reported on HackerOne by cesium_fusilli. (#42356)
  
• [Security] Disabled block element picker in Private Windows as reported on HackerOne by newfunction. (#43495)
  
• Improved contrast on active tab for dark theme. (#42751)
  
• Updated the Brave VPN icon. (#42226)
  
• Updated position for the “New Tab” button when using vertical tabs. (#42533)
  
• Updated the Private window search engine selection UI under brave://settings/search. (#41499)
  
• Updated the webcompat reporter to remember and autofill a user’s contact information. (#40021)
  
• Disabled cosmetic filtering on Speedreader pages. (#40642)
  
• Disabled field data fetching in DevTools. (#41934)
  
• Removed known Emarsys trackers “sc_customer”, “sc_eh”, and “sc_uid” from URLs. (#43077)
  
• Fixed external favicon fetch on the password manager. (#42955)
  
• Fixed “Clear all” button on brave://downloads not being selectable in certain cases. (#42924)
  
• Fixed “Connect” button being displayed for a region when already connected to that region using Brave VPN. (#42544)
  
• Fixed extraneous tabs created when detaching a tab from a window. (#42588)
  
• Fixed Brave News “Add this RSS feed” functionality to respect the HTTPS upgrade setting. (#38282)
  
• Fixed artifacts being displayed after merging tabs into a browser window. (#41272)
  
• Fixed shields panel being able to be opened on chrome-extension:// pages. (#43135)
  
• Fixed shield icon alignment in the URL bar. (#39976)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 133.0.6943.54. (#43720) (Changelog for 133.0.6943.54)
  

Release channel

[Kool]

Brave 1.75.178

Release  1.75.178
 

• Added “Visit Web Store” under “Extensions” via the hamburger menu. (#43807)
  
• Added links to the Chrome Web Store under brave://extensions when extensions have been added. (#43805)
  
• Fixed intermittent cursor issues on Windows. (#43824)
  
• Fixed missing “Same as Linux” option for “Brave colors” under brave://settings/appearance. (#43834)
  
• Fixed issue where “Word count” when setting up sync maybe incorrect in certain cases. (#43635)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 133.0.6943.98. (#43927) (Changelog for 133.0.6943.98)
  

Source

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.75.180​

Full Release Notes​

• Fixed hang/crash when clicking on newly created tabs while using vertical tabs. (#43980)
  
• Fixed incorrect icons being displayed under the URL bar in certain cases. (#43823)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 133.0.6943.126. (#44075) (Changelog for 133.0.6943.126)
  

Release Channel 1.75.180

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.75.181​

Full Release Notes​

• Fixed crash when using Brave VPN on specific timezone(s). (#44181)
  
• Fixed missing flag for Israel on Brave VPN. (#44093)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 133.0.6943.141. (#44217) (Changelog for 133.0.6943.141)
  

Release Channel 1.75.181

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.76.73​

Full Release Notes​

Web3​

• Added “Out of sync” alert and “Sync Account Status” warning to allow users to sync their shielded Zcash account. (#42851)
  
• Fixed inability to click away from the “Transaction Details” modal. (#43223)
  
• Fixed casing for Zcash on the “Accounts” page. (#43278)
  

Leo​

• Added the ability to stop a streamed Leo response. (#38337)
  
• Updated UI for brave://settings/leo-ai. (#42589)
  
• Updated Leo paywall to include “Annual” pricing. (#41994)
  
• Fixed missing “Learn more” links in the model-intro popup for Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet. (#38171)
  

General​

• Added localization support for several new languages including Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), and others. (#39792 & #43444)
  
• Added shield settings for “Block scripts” and “Cookies” when reporting a site via the webcompat reporter. (#42062)
  
• [Security] Fixed Tor leaks as reported on HackerOne by 0x999. (#44299, #44333, & #44334)
  
• Improved translations on shields for Swedish locale. (#42145)
  
• Fixed persistent Google cookie not being removed when “Forget Me When I Close This Site” is enabled. (#42798)
  
• Fixed issue where forgetful browsing was deleting local storage in certain cases when launching in incognito mode. (#39107)
  
• Fixed crash which could occur when detaching a vertical tab in certain cases. (#44362)
  
• Fixed cursor being displayed with incorrect position when detaching a vertical tab to its own window. (#44282)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 134.0.6998.45. (#44410) (Changelog for 134.0.6998.45)
  

Release Channel 1.76.73

[harlan4096]

Release Channel 1.76.74​

Full Release Notes​

• Fixed crash which occurred when visiting brave://rewards with certain locales. (#44459)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 134.0.6998.89. (#44553) (Changelog for 134.0.6998.89)
  

Release Channel 1.76.74