If a few days ago Google launched Chrome 113, the first derivative – apparently – to publish its version after the launch of Chromium 113, now it’s the turn of Brave 1.51which apparently does not follow the original numbering of the project, as Microsoft Edge does, for example, but that doesn’t matter much either.

So Brave is presented with many innovations in the background of Chromium 113, the same ones brought by Chrome 113 and which are summarized in security patches, stability fixes and performance optimizationsbesides some changes in support of CSS elements, improvement in coding performance with CPUs with AV1… but not the default implementation, at least for now, of WebGPU.

Anyway, what’s interesting about Chromium derivatives isn’t usually the coincidences they keep with their base, there’s usually quite a few of them since they all work together to a greater or lesser extent to develop Chromium, but rather their own additions. , the source – contrary to the opinion of many critics – of one of the most interesting browser wars in recent years.

So what’s new in Brave 1.51? A little bit of everything, although in keeping with the nature of the browser, most of the news is divided between the two most common focuses: crypto and privacy.

In the first block, what Brave calls Web3, which is very debatable, the news revolves around improving support for certain content and providers, although something to highlight would be a new option for automatically set NFTwhich makes it easy for the local node to share the cached and attached NFT data to the IPFS network which is added to the Brave wallet.

But more interesting is what Brave 1.51 brings in terms of privacy, such as the option permanently enable or block the execution of individual scripts (unless manually changed), which is the main reason why this feature, implemented by the browser since its inception, later removed and reintroduced, but disabled by default, still exists.

If you’re interested, you can enable this feature in “Settings > Brave Shields > Block Scripts” and if any page crashes after doing this, look to disable blocking via the page menu in the address bar (where the lock icon is).

Other new features in Brave 1.51 include a new login dialog for Google services on third-party websites of an individual and non-global nature, thereby improving user privacy; option «copy the clean link«, that is, only the URL necessary to go to the site, without the unnecessary links that are usually included; and minor feature improvements such as reading view, new browser version information, and other features.