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Open in Brave™ Browser

by brian.girko

v0.2.1 Updated Nov 14, 2024 92.08KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 3.14
22 reviews
#973
of 41.8K
tools
#182 of 10.4K
⚠️Not updated in over a year ⚠️Requests 1 sensitive permission

Description

The "Open in Brave" extension simplifies opening the current tab or links within the Brave browser. With this extension, you can send links to the Brave browser without the hassle of manually copying and pasting links. Additionally, it can open all tabs in the destination browser with a single click. You can also close the tab opened in the destination browser if prefer so. If Brave is already running, the link opens in a new tab; however, if Brave is not running, a new instance is launched, then the link is directed there. Remarks: 1. To enable this extension to open links in the Brave browser, you'll need to install a native client. Installation instructions are provided upon requesting link opening. For visual guidance, there are two short video tutorials available in the screenshot section, covering installation steps for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. 2. Currently, the native client only supports macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Support for other operating systems is not available at this time.
Open in Brave™ Browser screenshot 1

Reviews (9 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-06
Daniel Segal

Extension is asking to download and run node.js script, and looking at the node.js script, it has major vanuralites. Is this extension malicious by design? probably not, do I want to allow an attacker this easy way to hack my computer? No.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-22
Marcel Brouwer

When you use the extension from a browser that is not protected by VPN the openend other browser version will also not be protected by VPN. So, it's completely useless.

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-19
Jian Zhou

not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-15
MrBluedog75

junk

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-23
tnt

this sucks

★★☆☆☆2022-11-07
Alec Kinnear

The binary installation makes me very nervous. This would be the ideal way to install deep malware. If you are on OS X, Choosy does the same thing but with a signed application and with automation allowing you to choose the browser of choice with each link. There is a Choosy browser extension which works in Brave and Opera and Chromium (I don't use Chrome for privacy reasons). If an external party has audited Open in Browser Extension, I'm open to increasing my rating.

★★★☆☆2022-12-08
Philip John

Seems to work well so far. As with others, the extra script download is worrying and not for the non-technical

★★★☆☆2021-06-27
Rezwan Haque

Works great for me. But 3 star for 2 reasons: 1. It requires some scripting and may feel shady, 2. when I click the button to send in the Brave browser, a new Brave window pops up which is annoying. There should have an option to send it either as a background new window/tab or as popped up new window in the foreground. Please update it.

★★★☆☆2020-01-13
jeff diam (jeffiann243)

good

Permissions (6)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads nativeMessaging Can communicate with programs on your computer storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.2.1
Updated Nov 14, 2024
Size 92.08KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026