Summary
When restarting Brave on MacOS (latest version Big Sur 11.3.1), continue where you left off doesn’t log in automatically any more How to recreate the behaviour
Log in to various sites on various tabs, quit Brave, restart Brave, have to log in again
Auto log-in is set
Continue where you left off is set
Brave has access to Brave Safe Storage in Keychain access
Until recently, the continue where you left off feature worked just fine. I used it to restart Brave on my MacBook after restart and it successfully reconnected without losing my credentials for most tabs. Now this doesn’t work any more: I am forced to reenter all my credentials each time I start up, which is annoying, given how seamlessly it worked before
Brave Version: Brave is up to date [ Version 1.24.86 Chromium: 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) (x86_64) ]
Could it be that I have been too restrictive with cookies somewhere in the settings? It seems to hit all the sites I have open:
– toodledo.com
– google calendar
– NY Times
– Local newspaper (tagesanzeiger.ch)
– ubiquiti com
A reinstall of Brave didn’t help. I only have two extensions: 1password.com and duckduckgo privacy
Well this webpage for starters(It has crashed 4 times whilst writing this. Hit the arrow back for it to load in again). Gmail, Facebook, Youtube, etc. All the pages where I am logged in.
I turned on the password stuff in Brave. I didn’t change the cookie settings (?). Brave managed to store the password and let me log in with it, but it did not restore the page and log in on its own. Neither on this page nor on the others.
So it didn’t restore the session? brave://settings/getStarted Ensure Continue where you left off is enabled.
I just tested, opened to 2 tabs, then just closed the browser (via right clicking close in the taskbar). When I re-opened it just re-launched without issue
I found the setting: “Clear cookies and site data when you quit Brave”. It was set. With the setting unset the restoration of the settings worked. Perhaps there should be a warning that that setting clashes with “continue where you left off”. I don’t remember changing that particular setting, however.
I’ll just relogin everywhere and try the full test
I have not enabled that and still have the issues with “Aw snap” can’t access that page “STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION”. I even get it whilst opening new tabs.