Excited for the forthcoming DNSLink support too, even if it's just a bridge to something even better. Best of luck to everyone who wants the web to stay bundled inside of the corporate state.
Along with IPFS it's nice to see Tor integration, low-level content blocking, a privacy-respecting Zoom alternative (https://together.brave.com/) and integrated MetaMask for Web3.
Brave still has a small userbase (~24 million), but hopefully it creates the space / incentives for Firefox and others to play catch-up so we see a lot of these features standardised for the benefit of all users, regardless of browser preference.
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...
Most sites now feel like they're some hyper-optimised, next.js static site generated build even if they're not.
The web experience is not unlike that first time you switched from spinning platters to SSDs.
amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
It is still Firefox, but that battle has been won. Firefox won it, then Google came in with Chrome and pounded the old way into the dust. It is gone now, mostly forgotten and good riddance.
Brave is a more in the character of Firefox than Firefox in many ways. There is a vision in there somewhere of a new web where users are one of the primary beneficiaries of advertising dollars (!) and intermediaries like Google are cut out of the picture. That is a very bold vision. I don't think Mozilla is capable of that sort of out-there visionary approach to browser design. Succeed or fail, Brave is trying.
Brave is more like Opera by building in support for a bunch of additional protocols.
Edit: you guys are right. it seems i have installed the add-on some time ago and forgot about it.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=722567
They've also whitelisted ipfs:// links since August.