Issue:
There are currently only 3 selections available on the Brave taskbar jump options (see supporting screenshots) and these are the Windows default jump options. The jump options that were previously available (e.g. New private window) are no longer available.
The reason this solution will not work for Brave (based on my further investigation) is because the Custom Destinations file (.customDestinations-ms) for Brave is missing (C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations).
There should be a Custom Destinations file in the above directory that matches the name of the directory for Brave found in the Implicit App Shortcuts folder (C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts).
My Brave Version:
Version 1.4.95 Chromium: 80.0.3987.122 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Supporting Screenshots:
Final Notes:
If you have any further questions in regards to this issue, please don’t hesitate to ask and I’ll do my best to find the answers.
FWIW, I have a number of browsers installed …
Oh, and BTW, they’re technically called “Tasks” on Win “OS”
a) Chrome Canary - Tasks are missing
b) Chrome Dev - Tasks are there
c) Chrome release - Tasks are there
d) Opera - Tasks are there
e) Brave release - Tasks are missing
f) Brave Dev on Linux - (“Actions” on Linux) those options are there [1]
g) Brave on Android - Actions are there
So yea, even on the Canary channel, it’s missing.
[1] Obviously you’re only concerned about Windows. For me, that’s only a test laptop … all my daily workhorse machines are running a Linux distro.
Now go to the extracted zip, open folder (for example AutomaticDestinations) and copy the files to the folder with the same name (AutomaticDestinations). Make sure you do this will all three folders. This worked for me in VM and on my PC.
That works perfectly, except that the text is in Czech. I don’t think it’s possible to edit those files either (I’ve tried Notepad, Visual Studio, and another specific tool).
Would you happen to have an English version of those files or where to get those? I tried installing an older version of Brave to get them myself, but that doesn’t work because it always installs the latest version of Brave. I can’t find those files anywhere else either.
For me the only file that needed to be added was 407962ce3d4220f.customDestinations-ms
inside C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
Hi. Apologies but I don’t really understand this well enough. i must’ve did something wrong and nothing is happening. would you mind going into more details? or a video would be helpful. Thanks a lot
Had similar problems recently with another chromium browser.
The fix for me was to drag an open webpage address onto the browser icon on the taskbar. (Pinning the website to the browser icon) The jump list, new window, new incognito window tasks as well as recent websites now show up with a right click. A potentially simpler fix ? (Let windows do the grunt).
