Brave stole my thunderbird.

We started off on the wrong foot with Brave. Seemed like a good idea to use it, so I downloaded it, but when I ran it, it took over my email client Thunderbird. I explicitly told it not to be my default browser on the first run, but apparently it didn’t like that because it ended up making itself my default browser without my permission. Not only that, it messed with the configuration settings of Thunderbird to open links in Thunderbird instead of the other browser I was using. And that’s not all, it even messed with the x-web-browser variable of my Debian. No matter how many times I try to fix it, every time I run Brave, it messes everything up again. I don’t think that’s how you earn someone’s privacy.

@OsunaDuro,
Thank you for reaching out.
Everything that you’ve listed here is controlled by your OS. Brave cannot set itself as the default browser unless you explicitly tell it to do so and it cannot access other applications at all.

I would check and ensure that these settings are configured properly on your OS and also any relevant applications.

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