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Description of the issue: Clicking my home page icon on a new tab achieves nothing
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Expected result: This used to work in a previous version
Reproduces how often: Every time
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
@lurch23 thanks for sharing OS and Brave version info. I’m trying to read through and get what you’re saying the issue is. You open a new tab and click home, and it does nothing. I think that’s what you’re saying?
Question is, what’s your homepage set to? Often it’s the New Tab Page. So if you’re on the homepage already, of course hitting the Home button won’t do anything because you’re already on your home screen.
Two places to look:
brave://settings/getStarted, which is Settings → Get Started, down to the New Tab Page section. This is where you choose what your New Tab Page displays. If it’s the Dashboard, your Home Page, or what?
If I open a new tab then do control O and select my local html homepage from my home folder the OS then loads the file but showing being accessed from…file:///run/user/1000/doc/9ffb456d/homenew.htm
–> If you set the home page to the URL that Brave is showing the HTML as being located (to it, since that’s not where it really is), does that work?
Just opened new tab and added new link using same syntax OS used beginning “file:///” pointing to my file in my home folder. When I saved the changes ALL previously added links on the new tab were removed and the new one did not appear!
Restarting Brave and opening a new tab now displays “+ Add Site” with previous sites having been lost!
For the homepage issue, this seems to work for me as expected. One thing I’m seeing is that you’re not including the drive in which the file is located in the homepage link, which may or may not be causing this issue.
For example, to test this I made a simply .html file in Notepad and saved it to my desktop. I double-clicked the shortcut just to make sure it would open and display just fine (it did). I then copied the URL from that page and set it as my homepage. The URL used was:
file:///C:/Users/[my user name]/Desktop/test.html
When I remove the C drive from the URL above (C:/), the link no longer works.
@Mattches Being their home directory is not that of a Windows machine but rather Unix, Linux, or even Mac OS, I know drive letters are not applicable here.
Here’s my latest experiment. I opened a new tab then preformed Control O and selected my home page (html) file. It then loaded immediately with the path shown as file:///run/user/1000/doc/735bc8cb/ not my home folder where it was chosen.
I then opened a new tab, chose Add Site and pasted complete path & filename from the previous successful tab but still no cigar!
I did a little research, and it appears you might actually be sandboxed, perhaps not by one you did. Was Brave installed via a Flatpak or Snap? If so that would cause this very behavior.
@lurch23 sorry – was not paying attention to the OS here. I have just tested this on my Linux system and do not have any issues. I performed the same test I did on Windows – made a simple HTML file and saved to my desktop. I can now make it my home page and the home button will open it. If I set the NTP or browser to open to the homepage, it opens to the local file without issue.
Can you try making a copy or creating a test file and saving it to your desktop or a different folder on your machine and trying to add the newly saved file as the homepage?
EDIT: As @MasterLink asked – please confirm how Brave was installed on your machine.
Please be sure if they are using a Flatpak or Snap as I mentioned. This matters a bit, because how you install Brave on Linux dictates how it runs (Snap and Flatpak’s generally are sandboxed. If they used Snap or Flatpak’s that honestly explains their situation.)
I truly believe we should be confirming that first, how was Brave installed?
I don’t recall how I installed Brave but it is only being updated via Flatpak.
Please note that earlier versions of Brave (recent months) did work correctly enabling me to access my local (html) home page via a link created using the Add Site facility.
It seems that some recent version of Brave is different.
In fact, that page has the proper Installation for Mint since that’s your distro: https://brave.com/linux/
At this point you’ll likely need to remove however Brave was previously installed and use the official instructions. Without a doubt, this is a Linux sandboxing issue.
