Valtro is a privacy‑focused, minimal Chromium‑based browser forked from the open‑source Brave Browser project.
Its goal is to deliver a clean, elegant browsing experience with strict privacy defaults and a lightweight design.
Valtro removes unnecessary features, simplifies the interface, and sets the foundation for future performance and gaming‑oriented enhancements.
- Strong tracker and ad blocking
- Fingerprinting protection
- No telemetry
- Minimal background activity
- No automatic connections to external services
- Dark, minimal aesthetic
- Clean UI with reduced clutter
- Custom Valtro branding (in progress)
- Removal of unused Brave features
- Reduced bloat for smoother performance
- Focus on responsiveness and efficiency
Planned enhancements include:
- “Gaming Mode”
- Resource prioritization
- Fullscreen and GPU optimization
Valtro is in early development.
Current work includes:
- Initial project setup
- Preparing to remove Brave Rewards, Wallet, and News
- Planning strict privacy defaults
- Creating Valtro’s visual identity
- Organizing branches for development
- Remove Brave Rewards
- Remove Brave Wallet
- Remove Brave News
- Apply strict privacy defaults
- Replace Brave branding with Vanta branding
- Customize UI theme and colors
- Add valtro start page
- Begin performance optimization work
- Explore Gaming Mode features
Build instructions will be added as development progresses.
For now, Valtro follows the Brave build process with modifications coming soon.
Valtro is a fork of the Brave Browser project, which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL‑2.0).
Brave is built on Chromium, which is licensed under a BSD‑style license.
All original licenses from Brave and Chromium remain included and must stay intact.
- Brave Browser (upstream project)
- Chromium Project
- Open‑source contributors who made this possible