My browser was working fine until my computer crashed the other day, and when it came back on, all my search engines were gone and replaced by the Brave search engine. And since then, I haven’t been able to switch to Google, Bing, or any other search engine other than Brave. I also can’t add a new one.
The only time I was able to access the other search engines again was when I created a new profile, but I don’t want to use a new profile, I’d rather stay on my original one.
@Kiichy do you see anything listed if you go to brave://policy?
Also, if you go to https://brave.com/download/ and install on top, does it resolve? To be clear, I am not asking you to uninstall but to download and install on top of it, which should be like a forced manual update which can fix things if anything is lost or damaged from the original files.
@Kiichy I’m seeing other users report his as well.
I’ve asked the team about this but in the meantime, I’m curious to know whether or not you can still add search engines to this list? If you can, do the new entries stay/persist throughout browsing sessions normally? Or do they get removed again after you close the browser or perform some other action?
Also, do you happen to have Sync enabled at this time?
Another question for – can you confirm whether the issue is that when you try to change the default engine, only one option is offered? Or is the issue that visiting brave://settings/searchEngines shows no search engines listed here?
Additionally, can you try creating a new browser profile (Menu --> More tools --> Add profile) and, in the new profile, go to brave://settings/searchEngines and confirm whether the new profile comes with the default list of search engines? Or do they not show any either?
