Cannot open browser on Mac (M1) BigSur 11.6

FWIW the official support person who tends to be most active in this forum was on PTO this week, so hopefully this can get some attention next week.

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Waiting for the same answer and I see brave has not responded, so I’ll open an issue on the Brave github…

issue #19628 opened

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irrelevant - most people are saying they have already made sure to dl M1 .

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This solution worked for me… hope it helps!

Open terminal and paste:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware

Edit: Please note, for this solution to work, you must first have Brave Browser installed on your Mac.

Sourced from: https://githubmemory.com/repo/brave/brave-browser/issues/18618

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it has worked for me thanks @jakemarchant

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This solution worked for me… hope it helps!

Open terminal and paste:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware

Sourced from: https://githubmemory.com/repo/brave/brave-browser/issues/18618 >

This solutions works, but the order of operations matters. I kept uninstalling it and running the sudo rm -rf command, and then reinstalling, and it kept crashing. Finally I tried running the command AFTER installing the app, and it then worked. So something in the installation script is writing something that corrupts the browser when it installs it.

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Could you walk me through the exact process for this installation solution? I am not tech savvy…

Hi Fieroscotty, you’re absolutely right, the order of operations does matter. The script you are running in the terminal is looking for the Brave folder in your Applications directory. If the application is not installed, it cannot find the relevant folder and therefore fails. I’ll edit my original answer to cover this but glad it helped in the end!

Hi Indigostar, just download and install Brave normally from the https://brave.com website. When the installation is complete, open the terminal and run that command.
In essence, the command finds a folder in the Brave application files and deletes it. Clearly there is something in there that the new MacOS doesn’t like!

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