Description of the issue: I wanted to try a new browser and ended up on brave as my new option however after the first install where it opened for a few seconds and asked if I wanted to pin it to my taskbar whenever I open it even after reinstalls it will just flicker a window on the screen and clos…

@BarkyTron You deserve the “Medal for Hanging in There”. All the following info, applies for when “brave1.exe” becomes a problem, and you need to again take action. Top suspects for your issue that included “brave.exe” (before the change to “brave1.exe”), are: “some anti-malware, anti-virus, PC…

And I assume your Windows graphics drivers are all up to date?

nvidia gpu drivers are one of the recent versions before 50 series launch everything else is fully updated to my knowledge specs are 13700k 64GB ddr5 5600mhz RTX 4080

Thanks for checking. Will have to wait until we hear back from the team as I’m unclear as to why this is happening. Out of curiosity, if you download Chrome and try to launch it, do you see the same behavior?

no I’m using and have been using chrome on all of my devices for years fine wanted to switch browsers for manifest V2 support and this looked like the best option

any update on this? still happening

@BarkyTron See: maintain file and folder access permissions Study how to set permissions for the Brave Browser installation on your Windows OS PC. [Screen Shot 2025-04-06 at 7.11.58 PM] [Screen Shot 2025-04-06 at 7.12.10 PM] [Screen Shot 2025-04-06 at 7.12.33 PM] [Screen Shot 2025-04-06 at…

the owner was set as the windows administrator account and i changed it to my account however it didn’t fix anything the browser still wont open

@BarkyTron Is your Brave Browser installation, a system level, or a user level, install?

@BarkyTron Then you should set the permissions for the system level installation .

Browser wont launch after install

Brave Browser

289wk April 6, 2025, 10:58pm 18

@BarkyTron

See:

maintain file and folder access permissions

Study how to set permissions for the Brave Browser installation on your Windows OS PC.

Can't change any of the check boxes in Settings, Privacy and Security

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