Brave suddenly not working with Yosemite 10.10.5

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For anyone encountering this issue,
I’d like to officially clarify and confirm that we will keep these changes. After updating to version 1.19.x, Brave will no longer be compatible with OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite or earlier. This matches the behavior in both Firefox and Chrome, which also no longer support 10.10.5 or earlier. These older versions of macOS are at risk, given that they have not received security updates from Apple for years.

We recommend that users currently on these versions update their OS and Brave version to ensure that they have the latest fixes/securities offered and are fully protected while browsing.

For users who would like to stick with the OS they currently have (10.10.5 or earlier) and still run Brave, you can downgrade to the previous version of the browser by following the steps below:

  1. On your OS, go to ~/Library/Applications and move Brave to the Trash. NOTE: Do not delete any other Brave data other than this or you risk losing any browsing data stored on your device.
  2. Visit our Github and download the previous version of the browser (you’ll want the appropriate .pkg or .dmg file when you land on the page).
  3. Find the file and re-install Brave – you should be installing Brave v1.18.78. Note that doing this will not overwrite any data.

Once installed, the browser should launch as it normally would. However, you will also need to disable auto-updates from initiating, or you will run into this problem again. The easiest way to do this would be to launch the browser from the macOS Terminal, adding the --disable-brave-update flag at the end of the command. This would make the full command for launching Brave on from the terminal:

open -a "Brave browser.app" --args --disable-brave-update

Again, please understand that in doing this, you are opening yourself up to potential security risks while browsing and we never recommend using a downgraded version of the browser.

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