Brave Browser gets Chrome Extensions

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The ad-blocking browser will look a lot more like the newly redesigned Chrome, too. If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: a new version of the ad-blocking browser arrives Thursday that will make it as customizable as Google's rival Chrome.

Today's Brave uses an interface called Muon, but a new developer-oriented version of Brave due for release Thursday is built more directly on the open-source Chromium foundation of Chrome. The change means that Chrome's extensive library of extensions will work on Brave, including Reddit Enhancement Suite, BetterTTV, Pinterest, Vimium, Grammarly and Evernote. Brendan Eich, Brave's chief executive and formerly leader of Firefox developer Mozilla, on Wednesday confirmed Thursday's release of the new version, called Brave Core.

Full Story Good news for Brave users: the ad-blocking browser gets to run Chrome extensions now
 
I just installed this. Even though a beta it runs so much better than the released version on my machine. Chromium is a much better platform for implementing what this company wants to accomplish. I can already see why one of their guys says "With Brave Core you'll go from feeling like you should use Brave, but you still want to use Chrome, to wanting to use Brave no matter what.". This could get interesting!