I have Brave installed on my MacBook, but primarily use Safari. In the last few days, I’ll be working with another app and Brave will launch, despite not even running in the background and it being delisted from login items.
How can I make it stop doing this? Is something triggering it? Sometimes it launches the second I connect to any network.
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On your Mac, go to:
/Library/LaunchAgents//Library/LaunchDaemons//Users/your_username/Library/LaunchAgents/and see if there are any .plist files with “Brave” or “brave” in their name.
If there is such a .plist file, it may include data/info that would cause Brave Browser to launch.
In either your /Applications folder or /Applications/Utilities folder, there usually is an application, “Activity Monitor.app”. Quit all applications and restart your computer. Start that “Activity Monitor” and study the processes, to see if “Brave” or “brave” -something is running.
IF you had trouble finding:
/Users/your_username/Library/LaunchAgents/Open the Terminal.app (inside the Utilities folder).
At the prompt, enter:
cd /Users/your_username/Library/LaunchAgents/ ; open .There is a space and then a period, that followed that trailing “open” - in case you wondered.
And, there may be a MacOS Automator workflow that exists and “senses” some activity, and that activates Brave Browser.
I went in there, and none of them were for Brave.
OK; thanks.
Is Brave Browser the default browser for your MacBook?
Might some other application be issuing a command for some task to be taken on, “by the default browser?”
Another idea: Sometimes, Brave Browser might quit and not be satisfied with how it quit.
Then, upon startup, the user is prompted, to see if the user wants to start up Brave Browser - the effect of: “where you left off.”
You might create an additional Profile for testing purposes. Quit everything, and Restart your Mac, and then start up Brave Browser and use that new, “test” Profile.
Quit everything. Start up again, and see what happens.