Try as I might, a search for anything related to updates in the settings menu comes up empty. How do I disable automatic updates? I woud like to control this on both Mac and Linux. Thanks!
I don’t think that as of now it is possible to do so.
Saoiray
September 28, 2022, 7:32pm
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@gigachad There’s not been any official way for this yet to my knowledge. There has been an open project for it that hasn’t progressed much. They moved it over to P4, which means Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". Only thing is with Brave, soon isn’t how we typically expect. For example, that was set to soon this time last year.
Not sure if @clifton might be able to swing by to advise on it. The Github is:
opened 01:51PM - 07 Aug 19 UTC
security
suggestion
design
priority/P3
feature/updater
OS/Desktop
## Description
Brave is really nice web browser. I truly think it is. But thes… e days, it rather tends to become a bummer due to a simple thing on which a part of the community is divided and some key people are a bit stubborn: **"Disabling autoupdate"**.
This follows up several issues on the same subject which were all closed, and so I believe it will happen for this one but I still think this is a required feature.
So please implement it. **Really, make it happen.**
Why?
- For all the real (and good) reasons that have been written and discussed (@cnst if you hear me)
- Because Brave is also an imperfect software holding **bugs** in its pretended "stable" releases
To contributors arguing that disabling autoupdate is a bad thing because you want to guarantee the most secure experience I would say that in fact you are not. Even if you do code a nice software, the releases you believe stables are not that perfect.
For example, an autoupdate frequently lead to a **loss of the opened tabs.** And this is clearly annoying: the articles you were reading? Gone. The submissions you were drafting on with no autosave? Lost. Etc.
And the list can be long sometimes: The "Downloads" section listing stuff downloaded? Feature no longer working. Oops!
Plus, these autoupdates do not warn their coming: You just get some sort of ugly (inner) app kill and that's all. Not even a restart. Even MS Windows do it better: you got a pop-up asking for a window, with a shift option!!
Clearly, the user experience just gone worse.
The aim of this issue is not to score on one side versus the other (devs vs/ users) but to make more obvious that people should have the right to use or not such a feature; I believe Brave was not made by a few people for these few people only but rather a (democratic) community, right?
**References:**
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1877
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10863
## Brave version (brave://version info)
0.67.123 on Windows 10 18362
One of the only other things I can advise on are the unofficial suggestions by other Users, which will be shown below. No, they don’t all talk Linux or MacOS, but it kind of still guides you what to mess with in your OS. Just keep in mind that doing so can prevent you from Rewards and also will make your browser less secure. Keeping updated has importance to it. But at least trying to answer for you a bit.
Devs should add this feature in Brave, but meanwhile you can try an alternative way. Since Brave is based on Chromium source code, you can disable updates in similar way:
Open services.msc via Run (Win+R)
Select Brave Update service and change Startup type to Disabled
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Under Windows, to control when Brave downloads and installs updates, it’s necessary to edit Windows Autoruns. Any “Services” that are edited will (probably) be reset when re-booting. There’s real risk associated with editing Autoruns so I’m not offering details other than to say: it’s not brain surgery, I’ve done it, and Microsoft offers a free utility to do it. But there’s real risk.
Why to control when Brave updates (or, for that matter, when other installed apps update): some folks have inte…
system
October 28, 2022, 7:33pm
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