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Brave Components
Pranjal Jumde edited this page Nov 25, 2020
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You can check the list of components installed in Brave Browser by navigating to brave://components:
| Component | Supported By Brave | What it does | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autofill States Data | No | Contains a mapping of acronyms of state names in different countries to the full names. Helps ease autofilling of state data. | |
| Brave Ad Block Updater | Yes | Updates the ad-block lists supported by Brave regularly | |
| Brave HTTPS Everywhere Updater | Yes | Maintains the HTTPSEverywhere database which is used to upgrade insecure navigations to secure when the matching rules are found | |
| Brave Local Data Updater | Yes | Used to update AutoplayWhitelist, ExtensionWhitelist, Greaselion scripts and ReferrerWhitelist | |
| Brave SpeedReader Updater | Yes | Maintains data files to support Brave Speedreader | |
| Brave Tor Client Updater | Yes | Contains the Brave tor client required to support Tor windows | |
| Brave User Model Installer | Yes | Maintains data files to support Brave Ads | |
| Certificate Error Assistant | No | Helps fix errors in misconfigured SSL certificates | Not able to trigger Certificate Error Assistant in Chrome or Brave |
| CRLSet | Yes | Maintains a list of websites with bad certificates so that users can be protected from harmful websites | |
| Crowd Deny | No | Revokes all permissions for sites in the list | Work to enable tracked here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10280 |
| Federated Learning of Cohorts | No | Has data to support FLOC | This feature has significant privacy risks and should not be enabled in Brave |
| File Type Policies | Yes | List of file extensions and how they are handled in download protection | This is used by Safe Browsing |
| Legacy TLS Deprecation Configuration | No | This component adds a whitelist of domains that can use deprecated TLS 1.0/1.1 components. | |
| MEI Preload | Yes | Used to pre-load media from websites | |
| NTP Sponsored Images | Yes | Updates the NTP Sponsored image assets | |
| Origin Trials | No | Metadata for origin trials | |
| Safety Tips | No | Protobuf of malicious domains. | Not able to trigger Safety tips in Chrome or Brave |
| Subresource Filter Rules | No | Contains rules to block websites which don’t follow the better Ads Standard. Its often used to block phishing domains | |
| Widevine | Yes | Widevine’s DRM solution provides the capability to license, securely distribute and protect playback of content on any consumer device | |
| Zxcvbn Data Dictionaries | No | This contains the data like popular English words and names to higlight password strength. | The work to develop a custom password check is being tracked here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/12001 |