Is 'brave' A Good Browser

[Almendros]

Having got sick of windows 10 updates, I went back to windows 7. Now that 7 is no longer supported I wanted to increase security and changed my Browser to Brave. I now find that in the background, 'Chrome' has recorded
six days of history. I dont call that safe browsing. Any advice welcome, I do have a paid version of Malwarebtes

[CrapAtCryptics]

Because Windows 10 is supposedly the last version you will always receive updates to keep it current, secure and work with newer programs as they are released. You can schedule the updates to complete when you dont use your machine. I have never even heard of Brave which is surprising as I read a lot of techie stuff. I find Firefox one of the most secure browsers with a good range of add ons.

[dannyk13]

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3292619/the-brave-browser-basics-what-it-does-how-it-differs-from-rivals.html

[Buenchico]

Brave is a decent browser, which uses the basic Chromium browser that powers Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and several other big-name browsers. It's particularly useful on poorly-resourced computers which struggle to cope with the vast number of ads on some websites. However simply adding a certain extension (which the Ed would probably rather I didn't name here!) to any of the main browsers can put you in a roughly similar position.

I doubt that Brave (or any other browser) could guarantee to protect you from the type of ransomware that hit the NHS's XP-based computers after support for that operating system ended though.

If you find that your browser (whatever that might be) is storing history when you don't want it to, you need to go into its settings to prevent it from doing so. (Storing history is no threat to your 'security' anyway unless someone else, who you'd rather not know which sites you've been looking at, has physical access to your computer).

A worthwhile alternative to Brave though (which I like) is Epic:
https://www.epicbrowser.com/

[JimF]

"Having got sick of windows 10 updates, I went back to windows 7"

Wow!

[Almendros]

Hi,thanks for all the advice. I have decided to go for Opera as I did dabble with that one a few years ago