On startup broken (again)

[taylorkh]

Description of the issue:

Open on a specific page is selected and the desired page is entered. However, Brave always starts with the new tab page.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

Change settings as described, close and restart Brave

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

Brave starts with the New Tab Page (no address in address bar)

Expected result:

Brave should start and load the address I have specified.

Reproduces how often:

Always (after a recent update I think).

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):

Linux Mint Mate 19.3, Brave 1.9.76

Additional Information:

This has happened before and will eventually revert to opening the desired page on startup. I think it may be related to changing versions of Brave.

I have changed the desired setting, page address etc. but cannot force the issue to correct.

[Mattches]

@taylorkh,
Thanks for reaching out to us with this.
Let me spool up a Linux VM and I’ll see if I can reproduce the issue.

[Mattches]

@taylorkh,
So on my end everything is working fine – if I set the Open a specific page or set of pages and add https://ign.com and restart, on next launch the browser opens up to the appropriate website.

Do you have any extensions installed in the browser at this time?

[taylorkh]

Thanks Mattches,

Doh! This was my fault totally. It turns out I had a second instance of Brave running on another workspace. I don’t know why. I almost never run two instances of a browser on the same computer with the same user profile. That is what I have multiple virtual machines setup for. I closed the extra instance, started Brave ONCE and it worked as expected. My humble apologies for troubling you.

Ken

p.s. I do not think this was the cause in the past. I run Brave on a virtual machine as it will not run on my host OS - CentOS 7. I shut down the Mint VM each evening as part of my housekeeping and backup routine. This would close any and all instances of Brave. As I recall of this issue in the past went on for many days before clearing up. Currently, NO problem. Thanks again.