commentary on browsers, see especially regarding Brave

be careful what you write, calling somebody a "massive homophobe" just because he donated to California Proposition 8 which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, could be considered slander, even if you are just quoting somebody else as you aren't distancing yourself from the content of that quote.
Being against "gay marriage" does not at all mean being a  "massive homophobe".

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/

Installed a little earlier, but when opening it gave me a message explaining keyring wasn't unlocked, and wanted a password, had to hit "cancel" to clear it and it popped up again, I canceled again and browser finally opened. But it would do this every time I opened it, found a simple solution on another forum.

Open your menu editor (I use mozo on MATE) and find your properties tab, then edit the opening command with this appended to it:

a space, then

--password-store=basic

That turned it off for me, current Daedalus.

#!/bin/sh

fetch_keyrin (){
  curl -fsSLo \
    /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg \
    https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
}

add_sources () {
  debsrc="deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"
  echo "$debsrc" \
    | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
}

install_brave () {
  apt update
  apt install brave-browser -y
}

main () {
  fetch_keyrin
  add_sources
  install_brave
}

case "$1" in
  run)
    main
    ;;
  install)
    if [ ! "$( id -u )" -eq 0 ]; then
      main
    else
      pkexec sudo "$0" "run"
    fi
    ;;
esac

the script is very dumb and the use of pkexec is if for example you want to run the script from some graphic prompt or program like a welcome center or the sort that is running unpriviledged.

it also detects if it was ran with sudo directly and skips the whole pkexec business.

Just install Brave browser as flatpak. They released official flatpak images
https://flathub.org/apps/com.brave.Browser

Flatpak tows far too much bloat into the system (and don't play well with doing desktop entries and the like (At least I've heard so...))
In fact Brave itself discourages from using it anyway:

Doing it with .deb packages is simply better

Anyway, can anyone tell me whether Brave is expected to work in Devuan, before I get Devuan running on my computer?

Hello.
Just install Brave browser as flatpak. They released official flatpak images

https://flathub.org/apps/com.brave.Browser

Carolina In My Mind wrote: Anyway, can anyone tell me whether Brave is expected to work in Devuan, before I get Devuan running on my computer?

Yes, I have it installed on Crowz, daedalus.  Thought I would go ahead and check and see if it would. No problems.

This is from https://brave.com/linux/

sudo apt install curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

cheers

zephyr