www/brave 1.96.61_3

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Install

Package

# pkg install brave

installs 1.96.61_3 from latest

Port

# cd /usr/ports/www/brave && make install clean

# make -C /usr/ports/www/brave config  # change options first

Size

202 MiB download · 657 MiB installed

License

MPL20

Options

10 of 12 on in the package: ALSA CODECS CUPS KERBEROS NODEMODS PIPEWIRE PULSEAUDIO QT6 SNDIO WIDEVINE

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## Shared memory

Brave, like Chromium, unlinks shared memory segments while they are still
mapped, which FreeBSD only allows with

	sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

The /usr/local/bin/brave wrapper checks that sysctl and refuses to start the
browser without it.  To keep the setting across reboots, add

	kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

to /etc/sysctl.conf.

## Screen sharing under Wayland

Choosing a screen or a window under Wayland goes through the ScreenCast
portal, which the PIPEWIRE option, on by default, talks to.  That portal only
answers if xdg-desktop-portal has a backend for the desktop in use.  On GNOME,
Xfce, MATE and Cinnamon that is

	deskutils/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

while KDE Plasma and the wlroots compositors ship their own.  None of them is
a dependency of this package, since only the matching one is of any use.
Without a backend the picker stays empty and nothing is shared; under X11 no
portal is involved.

## DRM protected media

Playing DRM protected media needs the Widevine CDM, which this package does
not contain.  With the WIDEVINE option on, the default, the support for it is
compiled in and www/foreign-cdm, which came with this package, provides the
shim that runs the module, but the module itself comes from Google under
their own licence and has to be installed separately:

	cd /usr/ports/www/linux-widevine-cdm && make install clean

Brave reads the module through /usr/local/share/brave/WidevineCdm, which this package
links to the directory www/foreign-cdm installs it into.

It runs under the Linuxulator, so that has to be loaded as well:

	service linux enable && service linux start

The first protected page fails to play even when everything is in place, and
the CDM is only registered after the browser is restarted once -- a quirk of
foreign-cdm, documented in its own README.

Without it Brave says nothing: DRM protected pages simply fail to play,
brave://components leaves Widevine at 0.0.0.0, and the reason is only
visible with

	brave --enable-logging=stderr --vmodule='*cdm_registration*=1'

which then reports "Widevine enabled but no library found".

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