Last October, the young developer who has become part of the Canonical team in his own right, Rudra Saraswat He launched a version of Ubuntu Web that included /e/ in WayDroid. But long before that, the young Indian considered changing the browser on which the operating system is based. The intention is to offer an open source alternative to Chrome OS, and Firefox is the most "free" browser of the most important. At that time he decided to follow Mozilla's browser, but in early March He launched Ubuntu Web 20.04.4 with an important news.
The highlight is that there is now also available a variant based on Brave. Of the Chromium-based browsers, Brave is one of the most liked, since it is open source and is practically a Chrome without having Google all the time on top of the hump. Does this move make sense?
Brave or Firefox, you choose what to use in Ubuntu Web 20.04.4
Well, when Saraswat considered switching from Firefox to another browser, he did it for a reason. Firefox, which in addition to being the only real and cross-platform alternative to Chrome (Chromium) does some things better than browsers based on the engine developed by Google, does not manage PWAs as well. In fact, they had thought to be able to install them as native apps and they discarded that idea. For that reason, in the notes of this release we read:
This version includes a new variant with Brave, which uses the Brave browser with better PWA support and more privacy-related features (including a built-in Tor mode), but the same.
Otherwise, many of the new packages are picked up from Ubuntu 20.04.4 which was launched at the end of February. The Brave-based version also includes the /e/ in WayDroid, so Android applications can be run on Ubuntu Web. Of course, whoever wants to try it must install the operating system, or at least not use it in a virtual machine.