Hello, I am running Brave Version 1.74.50 Chromium: 132.0.6834.111
I have been trying to enable a filter list but it appears empty. This is a clean windows 11 install.
So, you are not seeing the following in a Brave Browser New Window (?) with URL address: brave://settings/shields/filters
Please use the Guest Profile or create an additional Brave Browser Profile, for testing.
Menu → More tools → Open Guest profile
Menu → More tools → Add new profile
If your issue is resolved in the settings windows of either of those other Profiles, then the Profile that you have been using, may have one or more settings that contribute to the cause of your issue.
Test: Disable extensions that you have added, if any.
Another test - right-click on the Brave Browser shortcut on your Windows OS PC’s desktop.
For the following Changed Paths, the switches are intended to:
- Start up Brave Browser, showing a New Private Window [–incognito]
- Disable all experiments at
brave://flags[–no-experiments] - Disable extensions [–disable-extensions]
- Disable hardware (GPU) ie Graphic Acceleration [–disable-gpu]
- Enable leak detection and if that failure occurs, then crash the browser [–enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure are a combo]
- Produce error/log output to a file named ‘brave_console_out.txt’ on the Windows OS Desktop
Changed Paths:
64 architecture (change the path to):
"C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\brave_console_out.txt
x86 architecture (note the switches to add):
"C:\Program Files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\brave_console_out.txt
Notice that the existing path, BEFORE the additions, is enclosed by double-quote marks. And, everything added to the existing path, is located after the existing path.
I tried what you suggested but I still cannot see the lists
Is your Brave Browser installation “brave.exe” file here:
“C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe”
yes, I am running a 64 bit system
Your screenshot looks like, what the brave://settings/shields/filters window would look like, of a significantly older version of Brave Browser.
Your last screenshot - has a clue:
“Your browser is managed by your organization”
Please study:
On your computer, you will be looking at:
brave://management
brave://policy
Please provide screenshots of each, of those.
It doesn’t have anything to do with the problem I am having.
It says that because I use a reg file to disable some brave settings I do not want to deal with. I did disable all the policies and still I had the same problem.
Reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; brave version: 132.0.6834.111
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\BraveSoftware\Brave]
"BraveRewardsDisabled"=dword:00000001
"BraveWalletDisabled"=dword:00000001
"BraveVPNDisabled"=dword:00000001
"IPFSEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NewTabPageLocation"="https://search.brave.com/"
"PasswordManagerEnabled"=dword:00000000
Thanks for the screenshots and more detailed info. @fanboynz is a member of the Brave team, and he will probably know how to proceed.