i have went to that support thread linked in the error. It says it came from people using Github’s brave. But this happened to me after months of using the brave that i installed from brave.com/download 's BraveBrowserSetup-BRV002.exe
Never had this problem before. It occurred suddenly.
I do not want to risk changing the registry values from release to x64-rel as directed in the support forum.
Its unaltered value was release, i never changed it anytime, nor do i want to right now
I’ll give a screenshot of my current (unaltered) registry values if it helps
@Saoiray I have an unrelated question. Ive did a quick search and found no results in support.
Is there a way to sync my brave browser’s news feed preferences and algorithm to my new pc? the new pc focuses on local news which i dont have for my old pc’s news feed.
im talking about the brave news i see when i open a new tab in brave and scroll down
@MainframeSupertasker in regards to your first bit, as it’s been more than 6 months, was on a different OS, and they marked a solution and stated it is resolved for them, I would rather not open that old one. But definitely can try to help you and am sure @Mattches or others may take a look as well.
Until then, will ask if you can confirm some info. And yes, some of it is repeating information that seems like it’s in your original post, but I just want to be certain I’m not missing something. So here goes:
Is Brave currently on your device? If so, what version is it?
Is your Windows 10 a normal PC or is it something like a virtual machine?
Is the desktop environment you’re using set as the administrator for the device?
If installed on your device already, what happens when you go to brave://settings/help? Is that when you see the update check failed? And refreshing any number of times doesn’t fix it?
Then to try to resolve that, you are downloading and running the installer from https://brave.com/download/ ?
Just random, but clicking on link provided here doesn’t work differently for you, does it? https://laptop-updates.brave.com/download/BRV002?bitness=64 (I’m taking an innocent approach, comparing that URL to your https://referrals.brave.com/latest/BraveBrowserSetup-BRV002.exe as I’m not sure where you grabbed that URL from. If chance of different source or file, then rather ask and try rather than ignore what could potentially be a “simple” solution.)
Not that I’m aware of. I’m pretty sure it’s not part of the Settings portion or anything. And not aware of an export ability for it either. I know it’s something that has been discussed, but I’m not sure of the status. Perhaps as Mattches checks in on this entire topic, he may be able to touch up on that as well if he knows anything.
Is Brave currently on your device? If so, what version is it? yes Version 1.73.89 Chromium: 131.0.6778.69 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Is your Windows 10 a normal PC or is it something like a virtual machine? yes normal laptop pc no virtual machine
Is the desktop environment you’re using set as the administrator for the device? yes the account im in has administrator privileges in windows 10. brave didnt ask for admin privileges when it starts or i open it
If installed on your device already, what happens when you go to brave://settings/help? Is that when you see the update check failed? And refreshing any number of times doesn’t fix it? yes it fail update check, refreshing doesnt fix
Then to try to resolve that, you are downloading and running the installer from https://brave.com/download/ ? yes thats right
Just random, but clicking on link provided here doesn’t work differently for you, does it? https://laptop-updates.brave.com/download/BRV002?bitness=64 (I’m taking an innocent approach, comparing that URL to your https://referrals.brave.com/latest/BraveBrowserSetup-BRV002.exe as I’m not sure where you grabbed that URL from. If chance of different source or file, then rather ask and try rather than ignore what could potentially be a “simple” solution. Good point i lost my train of thought i forgot where i got that link from... i believe that when i downloaded it, the download button at brave.com/download was actually linked to referrals.brave.com. strange that they changed to laptop-updates. anyway ill install from laptop-updates and let you know.
strange new problem;
two braves
yeah i think i did that two braves.
when i freshly bought the laptop the laptop installation guy put my name as the username of the local account. i changed it to Mainframe
and had to do the registry edits to fully change it and stuff
apps still wanted to install in the C drive /users/[my personal name]
i closed the brave at the right side thinking its just a windows visual bug
then
i opened a pdf
(pdfs are default to open with Brave browser instead of edge or adobe pdf )
and it opened with the old brave (pinned to taskbar brave)
not the new brave at the right side.
and the problem was visible, showing the same error
interesting… the start menu program link goes to the good brave, but the pinned taskbar brave is the old brave… and now it magically became the new brave.
Really weird, @MainframeSupertasker. I have no idea what you might have going on. Part of me wants to tell you to uninstall Brave and try again. If it’s a basic one and you don’t tell it to clear data, it should be fine. But I’m not sure if that would resolve or if would have to get you to uninstall and remove data. Either way, probably would be good to make sure you’d export passwords and all just to be safe.
But I guess will tag in @Mattches and @steeven to see if either would have any ideas or perhaps loop in someone who might better navigate around whatever may be happening.
Apologies — catching up here but I’m a bit confused, in your last screenshot it is showing the latest build of the browser (1.73.105).
If I’m reading the issue correctly, you appear to have two separate Brave browser’s installed — the one on the taskbar is the old version, but in the application folder it displays the new/correct version, is that right?
If so, is there any reason you don’t simply remove Brave from the taskbar, then re-add it from the application folder? Additionally, if you go to Add/Remove programs in Windows, do you see two versions of Brave listed here?
i think you misunderstood the problem,
i have two braves, one in program files x86 and the normal program files.
It was fixed temporarily, thast why you can see the latest build for the browser. Now it fallbacked to the old one, i dont have a clue why it did that.
Theres only one Brave in Add/Remove Programs. and it shows the .105’s build but regardless of what brave.exe i open, its always the old .89
the screenshot of the windows directory is correct, it ends with .105
but when i launch the brave in that directory, it opens the wrong brave, or maybe the new brave fallbacked to the old one.
the normal program files’ brave started working correctly, and now both the program files’ (and x86’s) braves arent being the latest build of the browser
this is getting tedious, at this point i care a little less about User Data. However ive backed up the User Data to my OneDrive so that my new fresh install of Brave in the future can have the backup from OneDrive
I intend to uninstall all braves, then i do fresh install.
Then all i do is Replace the User Data folder with the one i backed up in OneDrive?
my google account asked me for my useremail and password and 2fa. (not scam)
is it because its scared that my browser isnt the latest version? im getting security kicks more often now
i uninstalled Brave. I clicked the taskbar’s brave shortcut, and brave opened, in fact im typing this to you through this mysterious brave browser! is there any way i can trace where the exe file is that im running on? @Mattches
