Solved: Brave browser commandline switches don't always work in Windows 10

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Windows 10.0.19042 build 19042 (20H2) x64 enterprise, latest Brave build!

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All commandline options except for the commandline to enforce TLS 1.2 " --ssl-version-min=tls1.2" works. It will work only if I right click the taskbar shortcut, click properties, and close the shortcut properties window, without even changing the commandline syntax. Very strange. Even when I do edit the shortcut and brave successfully loads the commandline, minutes after closing the browser, the problem returns, same upon reboot. Update: it appears it may not be necessary to edit the shortcut, it will stop working sporadically regardless.

You can test this for yourself here, https://clienttest.ssllabs.com/

To recreate, just add the commandline I use, and test your browser on the aforementioned link after reboot and sporadically.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --ssl-version-min=tls1.2 --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x009c,0x009d,0x002f,0x0035,0x000a,0xc00a,0xc009,0xc013,0xc014,0x33 --disable-webgl --safe-plugins --enable-sandbox

Note cipher suite blacklist always works, regardless if enforcing tls 1.2 does or does not work.

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perhaps this is a cache issue and the test is not running on the website properly, ill look further into it.

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I believe this is a cache issue; other websites report that only tls 1.2 and 1.3 are enabled; while ssllabs reports incorrectly.

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