Description of the issue: I updated Brave recently and now it’s creating all these folders prefixed with “chrome_url_fetcher_” in the Program Files folder. Deleted these folders and restarted Brave a bunch of times (I had to to test another regression from this update ), it still creates them. Not a…

Your report is similar to that by @iocc : [image] Tmp dirs in /tmp are not removed Desktop Support Just by running brave creates alot of temp dirs in /tmp that never are removed. This is without the browser is even used. All are empty. $ ll -d .org* drwx------ 2 iocc …

@testingbobby , Can you confirm for me whether or not you have Chrome or Edge installed on your system as well? Also, to confirm, you see these files appear (after being deleted) only once Brave is launched?

I would never install Chrome, it has a data harvesting malware that you can’t turn off called “software_reporter_tool.exe”, look it up. I removed Edge a while ago with https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge These folders are being created while Brave is running. They all take up 0 bytes…

Can you tell me what is in those folders?

They are empty. [chrome_url_brave] Google claims they fixed it in Chromium but it’s here after I updated Brave. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40283581

Brave's creating a bunch of "chrome_url_fetcher_" folders in C:\Program Files

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289wk November 17, 2024, 3:57am 2

Your report is similar to that by @iocc:

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Brave's creating a bunch of "chrome_url_fetcher_" folders in C:\Program Files

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