Description of the issue: when I open Brave, I get a ‘Manifest file is missing or unreadable’ popup (see screenshot). Once I click ‘OK’ Brave opens normally. Note: I did a search for this and didn’t find any other threads. How can this issue be reproduced? Only happens when I open a new instance…

Manifest file is missing or unreadable error

firstogo July 7, 2025, 8:40pm 4

Same here. Edge and brave have an error but the versions of manifest are different.

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