Description of the issue:
Opening a downloaded EXE that is “unknown” by Microsoft SmartScreen causes Brave to only open a not responding “Window Dialog” window:
Thank you for reaching us and I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. Please try in Private mode or Guest Window to see if the behavior persist. If that works, try disabling your extensions to see if this is the cause of the issue.
On your computer, open Brave.
At the top right, click Menu → More tools → Extensions.
On to the extension you want to remove, click Remove.
Hello. Sorry for late reply. I’m still seeing the issue on Brave Beta 1.50.101. Again, might be a Windows 11 only issue. My friend had this issue only after (forcefully) upgrading to Windows 11.