Description of the issue:
On Mac. After updating to 1.35.104 all existing PWAs installed fail to open. The apps simply double bounce in the dock and stop. Removing the apps and installing again has no effect. Restarting, clearing cache, and all of the usual tricks have no effect.
Example apps: Twitter, Soundcloud, Spotify, Overseerr
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
Launch a PWA installed using Brave either from the icon in the browser address bar or the app icon itself.
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Expected result:
PWAs open as normal
Reproduces how often:
Every time
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
macOS Monterey 12.1
Brave V1.35.104
Additional Information:
It only happened after updating to the latest version
This is from the Mac Console when opening the install dialog, installing, and trying to open the installed app:
error 17:45:39.637301+0000 kernel Sandbox: mdworker_shared(7777) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/.localized ()
error 17:45:39.642031+0000 mdworker_shared Error (non-fatal) enumerating <private>: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file “.localized” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave%20Browser%20Apps.localized/.localized, NSFilePath=/Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/.localized, NSUnderlyingError=0x157724780 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted"}}
error 17:45:39.703677+0000 mdworker_shared Error (non-fatal) enumerating <private>: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file “.localized” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave%20Browser%20Apps.localized/.localized, NSFilePath=/Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/.localized, NSUnderlyingError=0x152e21820 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted"}}
error 17:45:40.179830+0000 tccd failed to get text offset for /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app/Contents/MacOS/app_mode_loader[7778]: (#3) No such process
error 17:45:40.687342+0000 kernel 1 duplicate report for Sandbox: mdworker_shared(7777) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/.localized ()
error 17:45:40.758764+0000 tccd failed to get text offset for /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app/Contents/MacOS/app_mode_loader[7783]: (#3) No such process
error 17:45:43.861502+0000 tccd Prompting policy for hardened runtime; service: kTCCServiceAppleEvents requires entitlement com.apple.security.automation.apple-events but it is missing for accessing={<TCCDProcess: identifier=app_mode_loader, pid=7787, auid=501, euid=501, binary_path=/Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app/Contents/MacOS/app_mode_loader>}, requesting={<TCCDProcess: identifier=com.apple.appleeventsd, pid=505, auid=55, euid=55, binary_path=/System/Library/CoreServices/appleeventsd>},
error 17:45:43.994489+0000 runningboardd RBSStateCapture remove item called for untracked item 396-375-4410 (target:[app<application.com.brave.Browser.app.jgeocpdicgmkeemopbanhokmhcgcflmi.8979265.8979274(501)>:7787])
error 17:45:43.994535+0000 runningboardd RBSStateCapture remove item called for untracked item 396-346-4411 (target:[app<application.com.brave.Browser.app.jgeocpdicgmkeemopbanhokmhcgcflmi.8979265.8979274(501)>:7787])
error 17:45:43.994573+0000 runningboardd RBSStateCapture remove item called for untracked item 396-346-4409 (target:[app<application.com.brave.Browser.app.jgeocpdicgmkeemopbanhokmhcgcflmi.8979265.8979274(501)>:7787])
error 17:45:44.003897+0000 kernel Sandbox: gamed(2853) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app
error 17:45:44.286789+0000 tccd failed to get text offset for /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app/Contents/MacOS/app_mode_loader[7793]: (#3) No such process
error 17:45:44.288223+0000 runningboardd RBSStateCapture remove item called for untracked item 396-346-4417 (target:[app<application.com.brave.Browser.app.jgeocpdicgmkeemopbanhokmhcgcflmi.8979265.8979274(501)>:7793])
error 17:45:44.288264+0000 runningboardd RBSStateCapture remove item called for untracked item 396-568-4415 (target:app<application.com.brave.Browser.app.jgeocpdicgmkeemopbanhokmhcgcflmi.8979265.8979274(501)>)
error 17:45:46.067034+0000 tccd failed to get text offset for /Users/craigmdennis/Applications/Brave Browser Apps.localized/Twitter.app/Contents/MacOS/app_mode_loader[7805]: (#3) No such process
Thank you all for the reports. If you have crashes in brave://crashes/ that could be submitted, it would be greatly appreciated. Once you click “send” next to a crash entry, restarting the browser will cause it to send even faster. Once sent, a new Upload ID will be generated; please share the IDs of 2 or 3 correlated crashes. We’ll investigate ASAP!
Is anybody here able to check if this same behavior is observed with PWAs installed from Chrome? Confirmation either way would be much appreciated. cc @craigmdennis@dennise
Tried to create a shortcut with the option “Open as window” in Chrome and it works as expected - zero crashes. Not sure if this “extension window” is the same as a PWA.
This is perfect, thank you. Could you also try installing a PWA to see if that also works without issue in Chrome? @craigmdennis shared a few in the initial post at the top.
@sampson thanks, I Installed Twitter for example. When opening, it shows the dock icon and instantly freezes. Trying to force quit doesn’t work and after a few minutes of trying to quit the app, it quits. <= this same behaviour is with extensions - not killing the process.
Even restarting the mac doesn’t work because of the frozen app.
Edit: I didn’t get any crash reports about PWA’s
We’re making progress on our end; about to update https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/21302 with some additional information. Thank you all again for your help in tracking down this buggy behavior.
