Brave Offline Installer
Eufrasia Radich
The Brave Browser, is a unique tool in the world of web browsers. Unlike most other browsers, Brave prioritizes privacy and security, protecting users from trackers and third-party advertisements. Additionally, Brave has a built-in system that rewards users with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for viewing privacy-respecting ads. What sets Brave even further apart is the option to use an offline installer.
An offline installer is a complete package that contains all the necessary files to install a program without the need for an active internet connection. This stands in contrast to an online installer, which requires internet connectivity to download additional components during installation. Offline installers offer certain advantages such as:
The Brave browser offline installer provides an efficient way to install this privacy-focused browser. Its offline nature provides benefits such as easy installation on multiple devices and installation without an active internet connection.
Nowadays, social networking sites and the search engine you use to track your browsing habits. They do that to show you relevant advertisements. Although nothing is private in this digital world, you can take a few precautions to protect your privacy.
In that case, you need to use an anonymous browser. Plenty of anonymous web browsers claim to block ads and remove web trackers. However, Brave Browser seems to be the best option out of all those.
The Brave browser online installer downloads the files from the internet; hence it needs an internet connection. On the other hand, the Brave browser offline installer has all the files and needs no internet connection.
So, if you want to install the Brave browser on multiple systems or use it multiple times, you must use the Brave Browser Offline Installer. Below, we have shared the download links of the Brave browser online + offline installer.
As mentioned above, Brave is almost three times faster than the popular Chrome browser. In addition, several tests had shown that Brave loads pages three times as fast out of the box with nothing to install.
Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. The new Brave browser blocks ads and trackers that slow you down and invade your privacy. The Brave browser is freeware and is based on Chromium, just like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Before you perform the Brave browser deployment using SCCM, ensure you create a test device collection. This device collection can be used to test the deployments, and then you can expand the deployments to a larger set of computers.
The latest version of Brave browser can be downloaded from the Brave website. There is no MSI installer for Brave which is disappointing. Normally, Enterprise MSI installers make the deployment easier with proper setup commands and detection methods.
You can download the offline installer for Brave browser by visiting the following link. Save the brave_installer-x64.exe to Sources folder for deployment using SCCM. Along with the Brave browser, you can download an icon and use it during application packaging. The browser icon will appear along with Brave application in Software Center for users.
Based on my research, I found that only nightly builds of Brave browser offer the offline installer and the download links are available on the GitHub page. The nightly builds are an unpolished and unfinished early previews for the new versions of Brave on the desktop. Therefore, you should not deploy the Brave browser nightly builds in your setup unless you really have a business requirement.
On the Software Center page, specify an icon for Brave browser application that will be visible to users in Software Center. Click Browse and select an icon for Brave and click Next.
On the Deployment Types page, click the Add button to add a new deployment type for Brave browser application. At this point, you can read this useful guide on Supported Deployment Types for Applications in SCCM. Click Next to continue.
For Brave browser, you can use the registry to get all the details about the application. The following registry path contains all the information about the Brave browser application. We will use DisplayVersion registry key for detection method.
On the Content page, click Add button and specify the distribution points to which you would like to distribute the brave browser application content. You may also select distribution point groups. Click Next to continue.
Complete the remaining steps of the deployment software wizard and close it. The Brave application is now distributed to the DP and the client machines should now have the application listed in the Software Center. This completes the steps for Brave browser deployment using SCCM.
In this section, we will verify if the Brave application installs fine on the client computers. Log in to a client computer, and launch the Software center. Click on the Applications tab and select Brave application.
Matched exit code 0 to a Success entry in the exit codes table confirms that the Brave application has been installed successfully. The uninstall command that we specified during application packaging should work fine.
From the below image, we see the Brave application has been installed succesfully. This completes the steps to deploy Brave browser using SCCM. If you need any clarification, ask me in the comments section.
Brave browser is open-source and free browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on chromium web browser. It is seen as an alternative to Chrome browser due to its lightning fast browsing experience, responsiveness, extensions availability and inbuilt advertisement blocking capability.
Brave browser is compatible with many operating system and has made installers available on their official website. Since it is just a installer and not a full offline setup, the installer will connect to the Brave servers for downloading the complete setup.
I had a tough time installing Brave browser using installer hence decided to hunt for the full standalone offline installer from official source. After looking into the Brave GitHub repository, I finally found all types of operating systems offline installer available at one place to download.
Click on Downloads option present near the version which will take you to the new page. Scroll through the page and click on Assets option which will then display list of full setup as in below image.
This is what I use, I have a dmenu script and I select shutdown or reboot and they use the commands systemctl reboot or systemctl poweroff
Upon more testing it seems that this only happens sometimes. Trying to reboot and shutdown with brave open does work sometimes, the majority of the time it would appear, but it gets stuck every so often
The release is simply additions, improvements, and bug fixes in the ISO installer itself.
Once installed, Like Arch Linux, you can run EndeavourOS for literally years by just doing pacman updates. In other words, once EndeavourOS is installed, you can totally ignore ISO releases unless you want to install on a new device, or totally re-install on your device.
Only if you choose offline install, because the main part of the installs is online where all packages are freshly installed from the internet, and on EndeavourOS the offline installed is more a fallback if you have issues with internet connection or such. All Desktops and Community Editions will be installed already up to date also if the ISO is 3 month old
Most other Distros only offer offline installers, this is one major difference on EndeavourOS.