Description of the issue:
August 31, 2025, Sunday - Sometime earlier today before 4:20 PM EDT USA, Brave Browser (MacOS) desktop stable release v1.81.136 - v1.81.137:
Somehow installed Brave Browser Beta
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
The magic and continuing mystery of Brave Browser?
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Little Snitch screenshot (time: Screenshot 2025-08-31 at 16.20.28):
Expected result:
Reproduces how often:
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
MacOS 14.7.7
MacBook Pro - 2020 Intel, 13-inch
Additional Information:
After that surprise, I completely removed everything about Brave Browser - the app, the .plist settings file, cache, everything.
And, I am now using Firefox.
PS. Before I went to sleep around 7:00 AM, was the last time that Brave Browser was running OK. And that was followed by some time after 4:00 PM (me, awake), I started up Brave Browser ← I could see in a network monitor, that there was “the usual” short time frame of some updating probably occuring for Brave Browser?
And then sometime before 4:20 PM, Little Snitch started prompting for online Brave sources to be OK’d ← that I had already allowed ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS for Brave Browser and for Brave Browser Helper . . . and then, around 4:19(?) PM or so, I started up the Little Snitch app, to see what was happening?
There, and thusly, the above screenshot.
20250831-2051 EDT
Been looking for clues in the MacOS basement and attic, but nothing found in logs, nothing found in /private/var/folders/… nor /var/db/…
Screenshot of update settings (20240831-1615) in com.brave.Browser.plist file:
