# Don't want Brave as default browser, but it keeps nagging

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/dont-want-brave-as-default-browser-but-it-keeps-nagging/590828>\
**Category:** Desktop Support\
**Tags:** macos\
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/dont-want-brave-as-default-browser-but-it-keeps-nagging/590828 "2025-01-06T16:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![hohum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hohum](https://community.brave.app/u/hohum)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/dont-want-brave-as-default-browser-but-it-keeps-nagging/590828/4 "2025-01-07T09:15:24Z")

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Ah, so it sounds like Brave _should_ respect me closing the popup, but it’s not happening for some reason here.

There are so many programs that repeatedly nag until they get their way (“how dare you not click Accept All in the cookie dialog”, and that sort of thing) that it’s all too easy to assume it’s deliberate these days 😉

> [@289wk](#):
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> Found a [tip](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/6860) (for Linux OS users, but you might try it):
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> 1- Create an empty html file (ex: file.html)  
> 2- Right click → Open with → Other Application… → choose Brave & tick remember application → Ok
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> If the prompt continues to occur, another [tip](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/6860):
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> > " You can ignore it forever by clicking on the `X` button on the right, it won’t pop up again. my solution will make brave default for opening links and files so everything will be fine even if brave doesn’t detect itself as default browser."

Thanks, but that does the opposite of what I want — it’s not that I’ve made Brave the default browser and it’s still prompting me, it’s that I _don’t_ want it to be the default, and the X button doesn’t ignore it forever — the bar still pops up.

(I use Velja as the default browser — it allows me to set rules as to what should open in which browser, and prompts me for everything else. Useful for web dev work!)

I’ve quit Brave, edited the Local Storage file, and changed `default_browser_infobar_declined_count` to 9999, and that seems to have given it a clue that it shouldn’t show it again. I’ll see if that sticks.

It sounds like Brave is showing the bar a number of times before it takes the hint and doesn’t show it again. That just annoys people — a “don’t show this again” button would be a better UX here.

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