Brave Chrome
The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. Based on the Chromium web browser. It blocks ads and website trackers, and provides a way for users to send cryptocurrency contributions in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) to websites and content creators along with the ability to keep the cryptocurrency they earned. As of 2021, Brave has been released for. On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave. However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker).
Although Brave Browser is based off Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome, Brave strips back and turns off a lot of features in order to keep it running as fast and smooth as possible. Whilst that is very much welcomed, there are some features which we may miss from Chrome that we want to have in Brave. Being able to enable Chromecast in Brave Browser is one of those features.
To enable Chromecast on Brave, simply use the following steps.
Download Brave Browser
First of all, make sure you are on the latest version of Brave, which can be downloaded here. There were a lot of improvements to the casting feature towards the end of 2019 so its best to ensure you are up to date, and have a bug and trouble free experience.
Get Into The Settings
Head to Hamburger menu in the top right of Brave.
Go down to “Settings”.
Scroll all the way down to the bottom where you will see the section titled “Media Router”. This is the switch we need to set to “On” so we can start connecting to our Chromecast.
Brave Chromecast
You will probably be asked to relaunch Brave Browser, simply hit Relaunch Now.
Brave Chrome Sync
Brave Chrome Store
Once restarted, head back to the Hamburger menu. You should see a new entry called “Cast”. Simply hit this and you should be good to go!