使用 Homebrew Cask 安装 brave-browser@beta

项目链接

• 主页
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

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项目历史

Brave Software was co-founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy. A beta-quality desktop browser emerged from stealth in January 2016.

The desktop browser initially used the Muon/Electron lineage. Brave moved its desktop implementation to a Chromium-based architecture, releasing the first Chromium desktop version and Brave Core beta in 2018.

Brave 1.0 shipped in 2019. The browser subsequently expanded beyond Shields and privacy-oriented browsing with Sync, News, Wallet, Search, Talk, VPN, and the Leo assistant while retaining separate development channels.

采用历史

Brave reported more than 3 million monthly active users in 2018, more than 10 million in 2019, more than 20 million in 2020, more than 50 million in 2022, and more than 100 million in 2025. These figures describe Brave overall rather than the Beta channel specifically.

The Beta channel serves as the pre-release proving ground between faster-moving Nightly builds and the stable release, giving users earlier access while retaining more testing than Nightly.

使用方式

Users install Brave Beta to preview and test features scheduled for the stable browser. It is suitable for web compatibility testing, extension testing, privacy-feature evaluation, and users willing to accept more change than the stable channel.

Brave's official channel guidance distinguishes Beta from both stable releases and the less-tested Nightly channel. Beta therefore balances earlier feature access with comparatively greater stability.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Brave Beta is useful to browser testers, web developers, and privacy enthusiasts who want upcoming Brave and Chromium changes before stable release. Its separate channel makes side-by-side testing practical and turns package-manager installation into a convenient way to track the pre-release stream.

The project also matters to open-source package culture because Brave combines a Chromium base with a publicly developed Brave core, while publishing distinct stable, Beta, and Nightly artifacts.

时间线

• 2015: Brave Software was co-founded by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy.
• 2016: Brave emerged from stealth and released its first desktop beta.
• 2018: Brave released its first Chromium-based desktop version and Brave Core beta.
• 2019: Brave 1.0 launched.
• 2025: Brave reported surpassing 100 million monthly active users.
• 2026: The official release schedule continues to publish recurring Beta channel migrations aligned with upcoming Chromium versions.

Related projects

• Brave Browser stable
• Brave Nightly
• brave-core
• Chromium
• Basic Attention Token

来源

• https://brave.com/about/
• https://brave.com/blog/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/
• https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
• https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Release-Schedule
• https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017916752-What-is-the-difference-between-Nightly-Beta-and-Release-builds