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Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
Updated to current version of Brave.
Started the browser
Notifications message box appers. Selected yes to notifactions
Nothing happens
Launch the browser again and it appears quickly then dissappears
This isn’t a Brave version, at least not with you putting the 122.1 in front. It should be something more like 1.63.165 if speaking on version of Brave, otherwise would be something like 122.0.6261.94 if you’re speaking of Chromium version. In any case, little confusing on info shared on this.
Do a favor and let’s start with a simple step 1 here to see if might resolve. Can you go to brave.com/download and install it again? Don’t uninstall or anything, but just download and install on top so it will do a manual patch. This sometimes can fix issues. If this doesn’t work, we can try some other steps.
plus what Saoiray said about the version some question i need to ask
first make sure that brave is not running then follow the following steps :
did you change any of brave flag the one you change by going to brave://flags/ if yes then start brave without any of the flags by the following command from your terminal window open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --no-experiments
if it work then go to the flag page and reset all flags then close brave and start it normally then try to do the flag one by one till you get the one that cause the issue
do you have any extensions then start brave without any of them by this command line open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --disable-extensions
if it work then disable all extension then start brave normally and enable extension one by one till you get the one causing the issue
try to start brave without hardware acceleration by the following command
open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --disable-gpu
if it work then go to the setting and disable it then start brave normally
sometime an update to brave or your gpu would fix the issue so enable it after each update to check if one of the update fix it or not
I installed it again over the previous version and the same thing happens. Right clicking on the application to get the general information gives me this version information 122.1.63.169. Since I cant open the app I cant get a version number via the application.
Appreciated for checking that out @DarrenA. I had actually noticed earlier today when checking on brave://flags that there is yet another version number which I never had seen, which matches what you shared. Kind of gets confusing to see things like in one area and then in all others for it to be like:
or
At least was able to help me learn a bit.
Moving on from that, I want to confirm a few things and then also have you test some options.
Are you saying that the notification message box appears each time you try to open Brave or this just had appeared initially before it stopped launching?
Can you please try launching Brave from the Terminal with a new test profile and see if the browser still crashes? You can do this using the following command in the terminal:
open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --profile-directory="testprofile"
If the above doesn’t seem to work, could you try getting Brave Nightly or Brave Beta and see if the issue occurs there as well?
Other thing I’ll say to check is any antivirus, internet security, firewall, or similar program on your Mac just in case it’s the one seeing and closing Brave for some reason.
in one area and then in all others for it to be like:
