Brave portable (and other downloads)

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https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases

First select the release (example: Beta v1.68.117 (Chromium 127.0.6533.26)
Scroll down the list of downloads and find your platform
Portable Brave for Windows is brave-version-win32-x64.zip

* Brave doesn’t support Windows 7 8/8.1

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The filename caught my eye because it implies Brave will run on 32-bit Windows. That surprised me because, IIRC, Brave has only supported 64-bit Windows for at least a few years now.

So I downloaded “brave-v1.68.118-win32-x64.zip” and tested it in a VM. It ran fine in a x64 Win10 VM, but trying to run it in a x32 Win10 VM resulted in an error: “This app is not supported on your PC”.

So my conclusion is the zip filename is a misnomer and Brave is still a x64-only app.

FWIW (since the the title of this topic is “Brave portable“), if it’s the portable version you want, a better and less confusing link is github.com/portapps/brave-portable/releases. Choose either the “.7z” or the “..setup.exe” download. (The 5MB download is just a stub, and I’m not sure what the “..installer..” download is but it doesn’t seem to install a fully functional browser.)

And BTW, if you’re using Win7 you can scroll down to ver. 1.47, which does still run on x64 Win7.

 

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True x86 version may be possible with x86 hardware, rather than a VM?

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BraveBrowserNightlySetup.exe will fetch and install the latest available version for your CPU architecture from our update servers.

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dg1261 wrote:

a better and less confusing link is github.com/portapps/brave-portable/releases.

No. The portable download if for old 1.65.126-91

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Alex5723 wrote:

No. The portable download if for old 1.65.126-91

I guess it depends on what you consider “old”. I deliberately stay away from the bleeding edge and avoid betas and nightly builds. Github/portapps seems to stick to stable versions only, so I still content it is the less confusing place to look if you want a portable version.

 

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dg1261 wrote:

So my conclusion is the zip filename is a misnomer and Brave is still a x64-only app.

some versions include 32-bit builds, you should look for the ones that end with “-win32-ia32.zip” (“ia” stands for “intel architecture”), e. g. brave-v1.68.117-win32-ia32.zip

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misuser8 wrote:

you should look for the ones that end with “-win32-ia32.zip” (“ia” stands for “intel architecture”), e. g. brave-v1.68.117-win32-ia32.zip

Ah, so it does! That does indeed run in a x32 Win 10 VM. Thanks, misuser8, that’s good info to know for future reference.

 

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Brave 1.67.134

Release notes

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