So you're saying that anyone can copy Brave's advanced adblocker and crypto wallet for example? That's kinda hard to believe. I do know that Vivaldi has said that only their GUI (or browser shell) is closed source, so you can't copy it, which makes sense since that is Vivaldi's selling point.
What are the advantages of Catsxp over Brave itself? Brave is the only (Chromium-based) browser that works for me on Ubuntu. With the rest I've used on Ubuntu, (Chromium, Chrome, Bugvaldi) the autofill doesn't work consequently requiring me on boot/start-up to log in to everything again and usually use 2FA. Which means I spend nearly an hour logging back in to everything. Which renders the browser basically unusable. This is a known bug. Firefox or WebKit-based, as opposed to Blink, work perfectly. The snap package of Firefox particularly well. I don't use the Brave snap.
Poster "Edwin" over on Windows ElevenForum had an interesting take on this browser that took a down turn after 3 pages of blogging with others interested in this project. Thinking I'll keep a safe distance from Catsxp for now and stick with Iridium, Maxthon, Slimjet, and SRWare Iron as apparently safer bets if and when I have the urge to surf the web with arguably excellent performing yet more obscure browser brand names.
Could you post a link to the Win 11 forum please? I'm intrigued. I used SRWare Iron on Windows for a considerable time, before I ever used Chrome. My brother, who is a software engineer, lived in Germany at the time and recommended it to me. It's one of the fastest browsers, if not the fastest, I've ever used. I only finally ceased, reluctantly, because of a few persistent bugs.
My pleasure to oblige you. https://www.elevenforum.com/t/catsxp-browser.2871/ Not sure if a simple copy and paste of a link is acceptable on this forum. Hopefully this works out.
Unfortunately, there was nothing there that felt definitive User there didn’t state what vendors detect it. Not all AVs are equal some are more prone to false positives than others.
I do wish the above-posted forum was a whole lot more revelatory with the poster's findings and transparent with his source material(s) for starters. Maybe a starting point for confirmation or an end to be debunked as a totally safe and sound browser. As always, time will tell all.
Well, there ya go. Methinks that was the "starting point for confirmation" I, for one, was looking for all along...
FWIW, I downloaded catxp x64 portable zip (v107_2_11_5) and virustotal does not flag it (0/65 detections): ~ Removed VirusTotal Results Image as per Policy ~
The sole reason I use it, is because it allows you customise tab placement. I have it configured to open any URL or search terms entered in the address bar, in new tab and not the current tab. I also have it set to open new tabs to the right of the current tab and when closing a tab to go the tab to the left of the closed tab. I do my best to avoid browsers that don't include such functionality. I just scanned catsxp.com at VirusTotal. After doing a new scan of the site, only Fortinet and Webroot are detecting it. Considering that it's not a new site and that 88 other vendors consider the site to be safe, the two detections are clearly false positives. I then scanned the catsxp.exe executable at VirusTotal and no vendors detected it. So the verdict is that it's not malicious.
OK cheers mate. I've got a feeling you're right about the false positives, it's one of the reasons I run only Unix platforms now (no AV needed). I've never been convinced about the accuracy and efficacy of all AV's. Ironically only SAS ever found any serious malware on a Windows machine I owned. If I downloaded Catsxp I'd probably run it on Ubuntu (if that's possible). Although Linux is arguably safer than Windows I'd still like more proof Catsxp is malware free.
Catsxp is not available for Linux. While Catsxp works great for my needs, unless you specifically need some of the extras it has like tab management, you'd be better off using Brave in my opinion.
Where did you read that? I can't find it. Forbidding users to reverse engineer and decompile seems to sugggest the opposite. Why would you want to if you can see the source code?
Did you mean to say not available for Linux? As the website only mentions Windows. Apart from the cats part, I'm not sure I understand all the enthusiasm for a browser mostly geared to use in the People's Republic of China. Perhaps I'm overlooking something.
I have to admit that concerns me, I don't want to sound Sinophobic. However, Chinese owned browsers have always had issues for me. First Maxthon, then the irreparable train wreck that is Opera et al.
I have just seen a couple of screenshots of Catsxp and it does indeed look about the same as Brave. Very weird that some other company can profit from the work that Brave has done. I wonder if it also has the advanced anti-fingerprinting that's built into Brave. Can you also place tabs on bottom, near the statusbar? And why not check out Vivaldi, it has even more options related to tab management. Same over here, I would stick to Brave.