If you set Dark or use GTK (with a dark theme) it doesn’t keep this preference when you go back into brave. It will show GTK or Dark but it’s still Light theme anyway.
This has been happening since update to 1.52.117 on Linux Mint 21. Was working previously. Both in software manager Flatpak (brave) or command line install Flatpak (brave-browser).
I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Brave Flatpaks both through the Software Manager GUI in Linux Mint 21.1 and also via the Command Line Installer from the Brave Repository. Same problem.
The same thing happens to me too, whenever I close Brave and open it again it stays in Light mode, the dark mode does not save, whether using the Classic Theme or the GTK Theme.
Linux Mint 21.1. Kernel 5.15.0-73-generic. Brave browser keeps freezing. I’ve had to use xkill many times since the update from 1.51.118 to 1.52.117. Brave always reverts back to light theme even when dark theme is enabled. I have to switch from dark to light then back to dark in order to correct the theme. These crashes have resulted to a video quality report from Google while using YouTube. https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/?v=gWFlpCBMyIk
Bah, they didn’t move over in order. Oh well, it is what it is. I merged the three primary topics over into this one just so it’s easier for everyone to track.
Description of the issue:
Linux Mint systems seem to display extensions and web pages in light mode, even though Dark Mode is enabled. This can be counter acted by setting the browser to Light Mode and back to Dark Mode, but this will be reset once the browser is closed and opened again.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Open browser (with cookies set to auto delete on browser closing beforehand)
Open any extension or website that supports dark mode theme (in my case 1Password)
See that the drawn color is white instead of black
Go to settings and see that Dark Mode is indeed enabled
Set the setting to Light and then back to Dark to have everything display properly, until browser closing and opening again
Expected result:
All web pages and extensions that support Dark Mode should display the proper themes
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.52.117
Additional Information:
Issue might be limited to Linux (Mint) systems. Both my PC and laptop run Linux Mint 21 and both have this issue after the most recent update.
Closely following this one also: after using Brave a long time, this one pulled me into the forum Happy to help however needed to get the browser to open Dark again.
When opening Brave 1.54.38 it opens with “light” theme but is showing the “dark” theme under settings. I have to click dark, then light, then dark again to maintain the dark theme but it only lasts while in that incident of brave. This happens on both Fedora Rawhide and Fedora release.
