Description of the issue:
If Internet access is somehow disabled when launching Brave, it can display a popup in the top-right corner, along with a “Reinstall Brave” button which merely tries to access brave.com/download/. The popup disappears after a while, but an “Update” button remains. (Actually, it’s the main hamburger menu icon that gets extended with the word “Update” and colored pink.)
How can this issue be reproduced?
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Disconnect Internet access.
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Launch Brave.
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If it has been long enough (one month?) since Brave could last check, the popup may appear.
Expected result:
On Linux systems, Brave shouldn’t try to check if it’s up-to-date. Each Linux distro has its own update system that covers installed apps as well as the OS itself. (Depending on how the app was installed.)
Brave Version:
1.49.132 (See below for more on this.)
Additional information:
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I’m getting the popup only in Linux Mint 21.1 (with the same version of Brave), not in 20.3 or earlier. I don’t know why that would be.
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Brave is clearly presuming that it’s out-of-date, since this happens when it cannot actually check because it doesn’t have Internet access. I suspect that it’s simply triggered by the time elapsed since the last successful update or check.
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Because of the previous point, it is impossible to tell whether this bug is still present in the latest version.