Brave (Browser) - blocks trackers and replaces intrusive ads with ads from which you get 15% of the profit.

I just setup the current releases of Opera Portable and Chrome Portable as clean installs on a Windows 7 machine. Saved a single login/password to each. Installed a single note taking extension in each with a single note. On moving paths on the same machine, both Opera and Chrome preserved passwords, extensions, and extension data.

I then moved this to a Windows 10 machine. The saved password was lost within both Opera and Chrome. Opera preserved the extension and single note saved. Chrome trashed the extension and extension data.

Unlike Chrome/Chromium/Opera, Brave has no extension support, so there's nothing to test there.

For passwords, I installed Brave on a Windows 7 machine as a clean install. I saved a single login/password then closed brave. I then installed Brave on a Windows 10 machine under the same username (so the same C:\Users\Username\... paths). I moved the Brave data from AppData\Local and AppData\Roaming from the old machine to the new one. I then launched Brave. As with Opera and Chrome, the username was still there but the password was removed. This is due to the fact that Chrome et al encrypt the passwords within the password store per PC.

As to speed, my original point stands. Brave is no faster than Chrome, Chromium, Opera, etc when those browsers have uBlock Origin installed. This was confirmed by independent testing in unbiased reviews of Brave. Brave's entire speed claim is due to adblocking, which everyone can have in their favorite browser and get the exact same 50%-ish speed boost to ad-heavy page browsing.

So, 2 of my original 3 points stand. Brave loses all your passwords as you move PCs and is no faster than Chrome, Opera, etc. As Brave has no extension support, that point is a bit moot.

The worst part is that, like other Chrome browsers, Brave as a portable browser would lose all your passwords as you move PCs. Unlike Opera and Chrome, though, you don't have an option to sync them to a cloud repository, so they'd just be gone instead of being re-synced at browser startup. Now, I could adapt our kind of clunky Chrome password handling code for Brave so that it would encrypt your password store to the specific PC on launch and decrypt it on exit. This would require you to set a browser-level password as with Chrome to handle it otherwise you'd be carrying your passwords around insecurely. It gets a bit messy in cases where a crash may occur and you still lose your passwords, though.

All that said, if the Brave devs want an official portable version and asked us to do one that they'd also make available to their users, I'd still do it. But I have no interest in maintaining an unofficial version.

Not anymore in the latest release : [link to illegal software site removed by mod JTH]

Well that makes no damn sense. Thanks for the heads up John. I thought Brave was open source, except for their proprietary paid ad stuff? How do they get off locking up their open source software? That's a head scratcher right there.

Can we get Waterfox or Pale Moon in the system? Some sort of clean browser to base something fast and secure on? I just checked your current Firefox, I see its still got the adware on the home page, so it's obviously not clean. I was using Seamonkey before I turned to brave, but I hear that that project is stagnating these days. Any other clean chromium or mozilla packages that you're aware of?

Any clean portable packages that I can install alongside PortableApps? (I won't bother downloading the app you said is illegal, if it is indeed illegal.)

Thanks so much!

Good Lord! I just took a quick look at Firefox's privacy page. Apparently since I ditched them they've gone from a few privacy violations to 'Full Blown Cluster-F***"
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

Unbelievable. Almost everything on that page I want to block, I can't. We really need a package in here that we can trust.