[Compare](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare) / browsers

# Edge vs Brave

Two Chromium 155 forks with the same TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprint: Edge names itself in the user agent and reports its real machine; Brave hides in the user agent but not the client hints, farbles cores, memory and screen, and drops Topics and Fenced Frames.

[Microsoft Edge](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/browsers/edge) [Brave](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/browsers/brave)

[Edge](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/browsers/edge) and [Brave](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/browsers/brave) are the two Chromium forks people reach for when "not Chrome" matters — Edge because it's the second most common desktop browser, Brave for its privacy defaults. On the fleet both run Chromium 155.0.8059.40, measured the same night. Underneath, a server sees the same network fingerprint; the differences are in how each one names itself and how honest it is about the machine it runs on. For each against Google Chrome, see [Chrome vs Edge](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/chrome-vs-edge) and [Chrome vs Brave](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/chrome-vs-brave).

## As a developer: driving them

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Version on the fleet | Edge 155.0.4283.45 on Chromium 155.0.8059.40; `channel` beta (156) and dev (157). | Brave on Chromium 155.0.8059.40; `channel` beta. No dev channel. |
| Playwright client, options | `chromium` 1.60; `channel`, `cdp`, `live_view`, `screen_size`, `keep_alive`, `profile`, `start_url`. | The same list. |
| Playwright features | Main-world evaluate, console events, init scripts, routing, screenshots, PDF, device emulation, tracing — all work (measured). | **All the same, all working** (measured). |
| Web platform | Chromium 155 including Google's Topics API, Fenced Frames and `navigator.connection` (measured). | Chromium 155 **without** Topics, Fenced Frames and `navigator.connection` (measured) — Brave removes them. |
| Threads | 2 headful, 1 headless. | Same. |

## As a scraper: what the site sees

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| User agent | `… Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/155.0.0.0` — names itself. | `… Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36` — the plain Chrome string. |
| Client hints | Brands `Microsoft Edge 155`, `Chromium 155`; full versions `155.0.4283.45` and `155.0.8059.40`. | Brands **`Brave 155`**, `Chromium 155`; full versions reduced to `155.0.0.0`. Hiding in the user agent doesn't help against `Sec-CH-UA`. |
| Headers | Chromium's order: … `accept`, `sec-fetch-site`, `sec-fetch-mode` … | Adds **`sec-gpc: 1`** (Global Privacy Control) before the fetch metadata. |
| TLS | JA4 `t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_806a8c22fdea` — 16 ciphers, 18 extensions. | **The same JA4 and the same peetprint** (measured). The JA3 hash differs between any two runs (extension order is randomised), so don't compare JA3. |
| HTTP/2 | SETTINGS `1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144`, WINDOW\_UPDATE 15663105. | **Identical** (measured). |
| Machine it reports | The server's own: 36 cores, 32 GB, a 1280×720 screen, one canvas hash. | **Farbled:** 51 cores, 8 GB, a 1366×768 screen and a different canvas hash — values that change between sessions and sites. |
| Languages, plugins | `en-US, en`; 5 plugins. | `en-US` only; 7 plugins. |
| Bot checks | bot.sannysoft.com: only "WebGL Renderer" flagged (SwiftShader on a GPU-less server). | The same single flag (measured). |

## Which to pick

-   **Edge** when the site should see a mainstream, consistent browser that isn't Chrome: a real brand in both the user agent and client hints, full version numbers, no extra headers and a machine that stays the same from visit to visit.
-   **Brave** when a fingerprint that won't hold still is worth more than blending in — cross-session device tracking gets new cores, memory, screen and canvas each time.
-   **Neither differs on the wire:** the TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprints are the same, so a block based on JA4 or HTTP/2 settings treats them alike. The difference is everything the page can read.
-   **Brave's farbling can be implausible:** 51 cores is an odd number for a desktop. If a site scores consistency, Edge's honest values may look more normal.

## Measured on the fleet (2026-10-14)

One headful launch of each through the same proxy, probed from inside a page and via tls.peet.ws.

### Launch and cost

Single run; timings depend on the proxy and on fleet load.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Launch body | {"headless":false} | {"headless":false} |
| Threads used | 2 (linux\_headful) | 2 (linux\_headful) |
| Browser version | 155.0.4283.45 | 155.0.8059.40 |
| Launch request → browser ready | 0.8 s | 0.7 s |
| Playwright connect | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Load example.com | 1.7 s | 2.1 s |
| Load tls.peet.ws/api/all | 2.1 s | 1.0 s |

### What the network sees

From tls.peet.ws/api/all, requested by the browser itself. JA3 hashes change between runs of the same build (GREASE), so compare JA4 and the HTTP/2 fingerprint.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTTP version | h2 | h2 |
| JA4 | t13d1516h2\_8daaf6152771\_806a8c22fdea | t13d1516h2\_8daaf6152771\_806a8c22fdea |
| Peetprint hash | 8f568b2a409b82d0ec24cb84bf3bc3fc | 8f568b2a409b82d0ec24cb84bf3bc3fc |
| Akamai HTTP/2 fingerprint | 1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144|15663105|0|m,a,s,p | 1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144|15663105|0|m,a,s,p |
| Cipher suites / extensions | 16 / 18 | 16 / 18 |
| Header order (first 12) | method, authority, scheme, path, sec-ch-ua, sec-ch-ua-mobile, sec-ch-ua-platform, upgrade-insecure-requests, user-agent, accept, sec-fetch-site, sec-fetch-mode | method, authority, scheme, path, sec-ch-ua, sec-ch-ua-mobile, sec-ch-ua-platform, upgrade-insecure-requests, user-agent, accept, sec-gpc, sec-fetch-site |

### What page scripts see

Read with page.evaluate on example.com. Cores and memory are the server's and vary between fleet nodes.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| navigator.userAgent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86\_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/155.0.0.0 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86\_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
| UA-CH brands | Microsoft Edge 155 · Chromium 155 · Not(A:Brand 24 | Brave 155 · Chromium 155 · Not(A:Brand 24 |
| UA-CH full version list | Microsoft Edge 155.0.4283.45 · Chromium 155.0.8059.40 · Not(A:Brand 24.0.0.0 | Brave 155.0.0.0 · Chromium 155.0.0.0 · Not(A:Brand 24.0.0.0 |
| navigator.platform / vendor | Linux x86\_64 / Google Inc. | Linux x86\_64 / Google Inc. |
| Languages | en-US, en | en-US |
| Timezone / locale | UTC / en-US | UTC / en-US |
| Screen (w×h×availW×availH×depth) | 1280x720x1280x720x24 | 1366x768x1366x768x24 |
| Window outer / inner / DPR | 1288x805 / 1280x720 / 1 | 1281x728 / 1280x720 / 1 |
| hardwareConcurrency / deviceMemory | 36 / 32 | 51 / 8 |
| WebGL vendor | Google Inc. (Google) | Google Inc. (Google) |
| WebGL renderer | ANGLE (Google, Vulkan 1.3.0 (SwiftShader Device (Subzero) (0x0000C0DE)), SwiftShader driver) | ANGLE (Google, Vulkan 1.3.0 (SwiftShader Device (Subzero) (0x0000C0DE)), SwiftShader driver) |
| WebGL version | WebGL 2.0 (OpenGL ES 3.0 Chromium) | WebGL 2.0 (OpenGL ES 3.0 Chromium) |
| WebGPU (navigator.gpu) | yes | yes |
| Canvas hash | f5a94624 | ef65046d |
| navigator.webdriver | no | no |
| window.chrome / navigator.connection | yes / yes | yes / no |
| Plugins / PDF viewer | 5 / yes | 7 / yes |
| Notification.permission / permissions.query | default / prompt | default / prompt |

### Web platform features

Presence probes; a user agent that claims one version while exposing another's features is a detectable inconsistency.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Iterator.prototype.includes` (new in Chrome 154) | yes | yes |
| `FontFace.width` (new in Chrome 154) | yes | yes |
| CSS `text-decoration-inset` (Chrome 157) | no | no |
| `Iterator.prototype.join` (Chrome 153) | yes | yes |
| `Iterator.zip` (Chrome 153) | yes | yes |
| CSS `scroll-axis-lock` (Chrome 153) | no | no |
| `<camera>` element (Chrome 153) | yes | yes |
| `document.requestStorageAccessFor` (deprecated in 153) | no | no |
| Topics API (`document.browsingTopics`) | yes | no |
| Protected Audience (`navigator.joinAdInterestGroup`) | yes | yes |
| Shared Storage (`window.sharedStorage`) | no | no |
| Attribution Reporting (`window.attributionReporting`) | no | no |
| Private Aggregation | no | no |
| WebHID (`navigator.hid`) | yes | yes |
| CSS `margin-trim` (Chrome 155) | yes | yes |
| CSS `text-decoration-skip-spaces` (Chrome 155) | yes | yes |
| CSS `corner` shorthand (listed for Chrome 160) | no | no |
| CSS `symbols()` (Chrome 155) | yes | yes |
| `Element.streamAppendHTML` (Chrome 157) | no | no |
| `WebTransport.reliability` (on stable from Chrome 157; listed for 158) | no | no |
| `window.maximize()` — Additional Windowing Controls (Chrome 155) | no | no |
| Canvas `srgb-linear` colour space (on stable from Chrome 157) | no | no |
| Permission policy `media-playback-while-not-visible` (Chrome 155) | yes | yes |
| CSS `random()` (Chrome 156) | no | no |
| CSS `scroll-snap-type: pair` (Chrome 156) | no | no |
| Fenced frames (`window.fence`) | yes | no |
| `rel=compression-dictionary` (Chrome 156 updates) | yes | yes |

### bot.sannysoft.com

The classic headless-detection test page; what it marks red.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Checks / failed | 57 / 1 | 57 / 1 |
| Failed checks | WebGL Renderer | WebGL Renderer |

### A plain-HTTP URL (http://ip-api.com/json)

Chrome 154 warns before loading insecure HTTP by default — does that reach an automated session?

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Final URL | http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status | http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status |
| HTTP status | 200 | 200 |
| Content loaded / warning page first | yes / no | yes / no |

### Playwright over the remote connection

Which client features work on this side.

|  | Microsoft Edge | Brave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| page.evaluate runs in the page's own world | yes | yes |
| addInitScript visible to page scripts | yes | yes |
| Console events | yes | yes |
| Request interception (page.route) | yes | yes |
| Screenshot | yes | yes |
| PDF | yes | yes |
| Mobile device emulation | yes | yes |
| Tracing | yes | yes |

Rows where the two sides differ are highlighted. IP addresses are replaced with placeholders (203.0.113.x). The probe is `compare/probe.mjs` in our repository; the raw result is below.

Raw output

```
{
  "ran_at": "2026-10-14T01:03:27.779Z",
  "sides": [
    {
      "label": "Microsoft Edge",
      "engine": "edge",
      "body": {
        "headless": false
      },
      "launch": {
        "browser": "edge",
        "resource_class": "linux_headful",
        "weight": 2,
        "launch_ms": 775,
        "connect_ms": 168,
        "example_ms": 1745,
        "peet_ms": 2146
      },
      "network": {
        "http_version": "h2",
        "ja4": "t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_806a8c22fdea",
        "ja3_hash": "f709b91e2bb14e39812c5d41586fcb8f",
        "peetprint_hash": "8f568b2a409b82d0ec24cb84bf3bc3fc",
        "ciphers": 16,
        "extensions": 18,
        "akamai_h2": "1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144|15663105|0|m,a,s,p",
        "akamai_h2_hash": "52d84b11737d980aef856699f885ca86",
        "header_order": [
          "method",
          "authority",
          "scheme",
          "path",
          "sec-ch-ua",
          "sec-ch-ua-mobile",
          "sec-ch-ua-platform",
          "upgrade-insecure-requests",
          "user-agent",
          "accept",
          "sec-fetch-site",
          "sec-fetch-mode"
        ]
      },
      "page": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/155.0.0.0",
        "platform": "Linux x86_64",
        "vendor": "Google Inc.",
        "languages": [
          "en-US",
          "en"
        ],
        "hardware_concurrency": 36,
        "device_memory": 32,
        "max_touch_points": 0,
        "webdriver": false,
        "plugins": 5,
        "pdf_viewer": true,
        "ua_data": {
          "brands": [
            {
              "brand": "Microsoft Edge",
              "version": "155"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "155"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Not(A:Brand",
              "version": "24"
            }
          ],
          "mobile": false,
          "platform": "Linux",
          "architecture": "x86",
          "bitness": "64",
          "formFactors": [
            "Desktop"
          ],
          "fullVersionList": [
            {
              "brand": "Microsoft Edge",
              "version": "155.0.4283.45"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "155.0.8059.40"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Not(A:Brand",
              "version": "24.0.0.0"
            }
          ],
          "model": "",
          "platformVersion": "",
          "uaFullVersion": "155.0.4283.45",
          "wow64": false
        },
        "screen": "1280x720x1280x720x24",
        "window": {
          "outer": "1288x805",
          "inner": "1280x720",
          "dpr": 1
        },
        "timezone": "UTC",
        "locale": "en-US",
        "webgl": {
          "vendor": "Google Inc. (Google)",
          "renderer": "ANGLE (Google, Vulkan 1.3.0 (SwiftShader Device (Subzero) (0x0000C0DE)), SwiftShader driver)",
          "version": "WebGL 2.0 (OpenGL ES 3.0 Chromium)"
        },
        "canvas_hash": "f5a94624",
        "webgpu": true,
        "chrome_object": true,
        "chrome_runtime": false,
        "notification_permission": "default",
        "notification_query": "prompt",
        "has_focus": true,
        "connection_api": true,
        "stack_read_by_debugger": false,
        "features": {
          "iterator_includes": true,
          "iterator_join": true,
          "iterator_zip": true,
          "fontface_width": true,
          "css_text_decoration_inset": false,
          "css_scroll_axis_lock": false,
          "websocket_options_bag": null,
          "camera_element": true,
          "topics_api": true,
          "protected_audience": true,
          "shared_storage": false,
          "attribution_reporting": false,
          "request_storage_access_for": false,
          "webhid": true,
          "private_aggregation": false,
          "css_margin_trim": true,
          "css_text_decoration_skip_spaces": true,
          "css_corner_shorthand": false,
          "css_symbols": true,
          "stream_append_html": false,
          "webtransport_reliability": false,
          "window_maximize": false,
          "canvas_srgb_linear": false,
          "policy_media_playback_while_not_visible": true,
          "css_random": false,
          "css_scroll_snap_pair": false,
          "fenced_frames": true,
          "compression_dictionary": true
        }
      },
      "page_main_world": null,
      "sannysoft": {
        "checks": 57,
        "failed": 1,
        "failed_names": [
          "WebGL Renderer"
        ],
        "passed": 30
      },
      "plain_http": {
        "final_url": "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status",
        "status": 200,
        "title": "",
        "loaded": true,
        "warning_page": false,
        "page_text": "{\"status\":\"success\"}"
      },
      "playwright": {
        "evaluate_in_main_world": true,
        "console_events": true,
        "init_script": true,
        "route": true,
        "screenshot": true,
        "pdf": true,
        "mobile_emulation": true,
        "tracing": true
      },
      "browser_version": "155.0.4283.45"
    },
    {
      "label": "Brave",
      "engine": "brave",
      "body": {
        "headless": false
      },
      "launch": {
        "browser": "brave",
        "resource_class": "linux_headful",
        "weight": 2,
        "launch_ms": 729,
        "connect_ms": 147,
        "example_ms": 2101,
        "peet_ms": 961
      },
      "network": {
        "http_version": "h2",
        "ja4": "t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_806a8c22fdea",
        "ja3_hash": "a3b43ebad9f99b892408610b61c00a75",
        "peetprint_hash": "8f568b2a409b82d0ec24cb84bf3bc3fc",
        "ciphers": 16,
        "extensions": 18,
        "akamai_h2": "1:65536;2:0;4:6291456;6:262144|15663105|0|m,a,s,p",
        "akamai_h2_hash": "52d84b11737d980aef856699f885ca86",
        "header_order": [
          "method",
          "authority",
          "scheme",
          "path",
          "sec-ch-ua",
          "sec-ch-ua-mobile",
          "sec-ch-ua-platform",
          "upgrade-insecure-requests",
          "user-agent",
          "accept",
          "sec-gpc",
          "sec-fetch-site"
        ]
      },
      "page": {
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "platform": "Linux x86_64",
        "vendor": "Google Inc.",
        "languages": [
          "en-US"
        ],
        "hardware_concurrency": 51,
        "device_memory": 8,
        "max_touch_points": 0,
        "webdriver": false,
        "plugins": 7,
        "pdf_viewer": true,
        "ua_data": {
          "brands": [
            {
              "brand": "Brave",
              "version": "155"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "155"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Not(A:Brand",
              "version": "24"
            }
          ],
          "mobile": false,
          "platform": "Linux",
          "architecture": "x86",
          "bitness": "64",
          "formFactors": [
            "Desktop"
          ],
          "fullVersionList": [
            {
              "brand": "Brave",
              "version": "155.0.0.0"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Chromium",
              "version": "155.0.0.0"
            },
            {
              "brand": "Not(A:Brand",
              "version": "24.0.0.0"
            }
          ],
          "model": "",
          "platformVersion": "",
          "uaFullVersion": "155.0.0.0",
          "wow64": false
        },
        "screen": "1366x768x1366x768x24",
        "window": {
          "outer": "1281x728",
          "inner": "1280x720",
          "dpr": 1
        },
        "timezone": "UTC",
        "locale": "en-US",
        "webgl": {
          "vendor": "Google Inc. (Google)",
          "renderer": "ANGLE (Google, Vulkan 1.3.0 (SwiftShader Device (Subzero) (0x0000C0DE)), SwiftShader driver)",
          "version": "WebGL 2.0 (OpenGL ES 3.0 Chromium)"
        },
        "canvas_hash": "ef65046d",
        "webgpu": true,
        "chrome_object": true,
        "chrome_runtime": false,
        "notification_permission": "default",
        "notification_query": "prompt",
        "has_focus": true,
        "connection_api": false,
        "stack_read_by_debugger": false,
        "features": {
          "iterator_includes": true,
          "iterator_join": true,
          "iterator_zip": true,
          "fontface_width": true,
          "css_text_decoration_inset": false,
          "css_scroll_axis_lock": false,
          "websocket_options_bag": null,
          "camera_element": true,
          "topics_api": false,
          "protected_audience": true,
          "shared_storage": false,
          "attribution_reporting": false,
          "request_storage_access_for": false,
          "webhid": true,
          "private_aggregation": false,
          "css_margin_trim": true,
          "css_text_decoration_skip_spaces": true,
          "css_corner_shorthand": false,
          "css_symbols": true,
          "stream_append_html": false,
          "webtransport_reliability": false,
          "window_maximize": false,
          "canvas_srgb_linear": false,
          "policy_media_playback_while_not_visible": true,
          "css_random": false,
          "css_scroll_snap_pair": false,
          "fenced_frames": false,
          "compression_dictionary": true
        }
      },
      "page_main_world": null,
      "sannysoft": {
        "checks": 57,
        "failed": 1,
        "failed_names": [
          "WebGL Renderer"
        ],
        "passed": 30
      },
      "plain_http": {
        "final_url": "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status",
        "status": 200,
        "title": "",
        "loaded": true,
        "warning_page": false,
        "page_text": "{\"status\":\"success\"}"
      },
      "playwright": {
        "evaluate_in_main_world": true,
        "console_events": true,
        "init_script": true,
        "route": true,
        "screenshot": true,
        "pdf": true,
        "mobile_emulation": true,
        "tracing": true
      },
      "browser_version": "155.0.8059.40"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Bottom line

Edge and Brave are the same Chromium 155 on the wire. Edge tells the page the truth about itself and its machine; Brave tells the user agent a white lie, the client hints the truth, and makes up the machine.

Both cost the same thread on the fleet.

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