JimB1
October 13, 2021, 5:01am
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Ah yes, good call, that makes sense.
Reminds me of a couple other threads:
Using :
Version 0.70.122 Chromium: 78.0.3904.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
On all flavors of desktop Linux, here is the warning
“the password you use to log into your computer no longer matc hes that of your keyring”.
It only happens when I launch Brave and always happens when I launch Brave.
DDGing the internet brings up “solutions” but my concerns are:
I do not want to in any way transmit my login pw to Chrom(e)(ium) and therefore Google (it seems it’s Chromium related)…unattributed po…
Folks, I don’t think this is the OP’s issue but I wanted to log something here as it is related and other people may come across this thread if they hit the Keyring issue.
Funny enough, something similar just happened to me with Brave on a Fedora device. (I didn’t lose Internet or anything like that; I just got prompted about an unlocked keyring.)
In my case it was because I started using biometrics (fingerprint) to unlock the device. Apparently, this does not unlock the GNOME Keyring. Mayb…
Note in the last one, the behavior was due to using biometric login; since the actual login password is not supplied, it is then not possible for it to also unlock the keyring.
Note there is also a workaround some other packages use, maybe worth considering for the Brave Linux package, although I’m not personally a fan of doing that.