| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/brave-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | brave-bin |
| Description: | Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release) |
| Upstream URL: | https://brave.com |
| Keywords: | brave browser |
| Licenses: | BSD, MPL2, custom:chromium |
| Conflicts: | brave |
| Provides: | brave, brave-browser |
| Submitter: | toropisco |
| Maintainer: | brave |
| Last Packager: | brave |
| Votes: | 875 |
| Popularity: | 17.39 |
| First Submitted: | 2016-04-06 13:16 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-05-15 16:26 (UTC) |
I use Cinnamon DE and had similar issues. I was able to fix it by editing ~/.config/mimeapps.list and changing all occurrences of chromium.desktop (my previous browser) to brave-bin.desktop, and deleting all the BraveBrowser data stored in ~/.cache and ~/.config.
I'm not sure why, but brave bugged me, for several days, about setting it to default, but a friend of mine said he only clicked 'Set as Default' once and it stopped asking him.
Any idea why this package always complains that it is not set to the default browser, even when it actually is? Using Gnome, fwiw.
@simonorono Awesome. Thanks for such a quick fix
I just solved that issue on version 0.56.15 @whezzel
I understand the reason for the brave-bin.sh script, is to notify the user that the browser is not running in a sandbox which can be insecure. I have applied the fix listed in the 'pinned' comment so that my browser runs in a sandbox.
My question is, would it be possible to modify brave-bin.sh to pass additional flags to /usr/lib/brave-bin/brave?
For example:
brave --incognito # opens a new brave window with a url of --incognito
/usr/lib/brave-bin/brave --incognito # opens a new window in incognito mode.
Unfortunately, I'm not that great with scripting yet, otherwise I would try to make this modification on my own.
@Vrakfall the main Brave executable gets installed at /usr/lib/brave-bin/brave and will not run unless:
1) it finds a way of sandboxing the processes or
2) it's run with the --no-sandbox flag (very insecure)
The brave-bin.sh checks if you have user namespaces enabled; if not then it will run Brave with the --no-sandbox flag.
This is a known issue: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9955
If you try to run the main Brave executable with no flags you get this:
[23868:23868:1117/153840.810367:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No usable sandbox! Update your kernel or see <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md> for more information on developing with the SUID sandbox. If you want to live dangerously and need an immediate workaround, you can try using --no-sandbox.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
I can't find which command this flag is from. What is it linked to? I find it weird you advice using a kernel feature that weakens it.
Looks like there is an error in the desktop file... in Gnome, the desktop file opens a duplicate icon in the dock when added to favorites.
To disable the message telling "that you're using an unsupported command-line flag --no-sandbox" you must enable user namespaces with sysctl:
sudo sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
To make it persist after reboot:
echo kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 1 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf
Sorry I've been traveling and out of date on upstream changes. I'll take a look at this over the coming week.
If anybody can confirm @mariow's comments below and that Gist building I might expedite putting that in here.
Pinned Comments
brave commented on 2025-04-25 13:00 (UTC)