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Brave is Chromium based

We are indeed based on Chromium, but differ from Chrome in many ways. Here's a little information to expound on that: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

Note that only "Brave Beta" is Chromium based (and "Brave Dev").

Brave was always based on chromium. The UI was based on Muon, but the upcoming 1.0 release switched the UI back to Chromium.