Description of the issue: Brave does not open at all. I get a windows error message stating that windows cannot find the file required to open it, which does not make sense because the file it “can’t find” is right there in the folder. How can this issue be reproduced? Click/double click the Bra…

I have no idea how or why it works but I tried changing the application name to “brave.exe.exe” and it…suddenly started working. I don’t know if it’ll ever stop working but I’m able to open brave now at least.

Windows can't find and open Brave

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Mattches October 28, 2019, 7:42pm 9

@whythis,
Yeah that’s certainly a new one. Thank you for informing us – I’ll be on the lookout in the event any other users experience the same issue.

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