Custom Chromium and Brave builds
Egon Browser
A Brave-based browser we built for a private client, with its own branding and privacy defaults set to the client’s requirements.
- Brave
- Chromium
- Privacy
- Branding
- Built on
- Brave (Chromium)
- Our part
- We built Egon on Brave’s open-source code, changed its privacy defaults and replaced the branding.
The client and the problem
The client wanted a browser under its own name, Egon, with privacy and data-handling behavior set to its own requirements instead of the defaults a general-purpose browser ships with.
What we built
We built Egon on Brave’s open-source code, which runs on Chromium. We changed its privacy and data-handling defaults to match the client’s requirements and replaced the Brave branding with Egon’s own. The branding work sits apart from the engine changes, so either can be updated without touching the other.
- A custom browser built on Brave and Chromium
- Privacy and data-handling defaults changed to the client’s requirements
- Egon branding, kept separate from the engine changes
Why it was hard
A Brave-based browser has two upstreams: Brave’s code and the Chromium code under it. Each privacy default is set in one layer or the other, so every change meant finding where that default lives and making sure it survives the next update of both.
How it fits together
Egon: two upstreams and the client’s changes
Egon Browser
- Branding
The client’s product: the Egon name, logo and interface identity.
Branding
- Branding
Egon’s name, icons and product strings, kept apart from the engine changes.
Privacy defaults
- Privacy
Privacy and data-handling defaults changed to the client’s requirements, in the Brave or Chromium layer where each is set.
Brave
- Brave
Brave’s open-source browser code, the base Egon is built from.
Chromium
The engine under Brave.
- Client's product
- Our engineering
- Upstream: third-party code we build on
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