Brave Browser will not launch when installed normally

[blufeld]

If I follow the 5-step procedure for Debian-based distros, I can usually install Brave Browser. Basically, you install curl, add the Brave repository, update the repos, then install. While Brave did install by this method on LMDE 6, it wouldn't open because of a GPU error. So I reluctantly installed Brave as a flatpak. I'm going to doublecheck the following, but when you install Brave a certain way, it provides for bookmark importation that requires an HTML file, rather than the name of a source browser. Firefox stopped storing bookmarks as an html file long ago, so It's very frustrating to encounter this anachronism. It usually means I have to install bookmarks manually. Tedious and time-consuming. Why does Brave Browser asks for an html file, when the bookmarks are strored as a json file? One more problem, since I don't log in to LMDE 6, I get a prompt for a keyring pass when I launch Brave Briwser, What's an easy way to get rid of the keyring pass, without logging in? And how do I get the password off the screensaver? I want screensaver, but I don't want the password protection.

I am happy to report that both LMDE 6 Faye and LM 21.1 Vera booted my Acer Aspire One 722 netbook, saw the networks, and connected to internet. Debian Bookworm 12 did not boot the Acer netbook. (Sparky 7 and Solus 4.4 also booted and connected successfully.) Now, can someone explain to me why when I was prompted to furnish a network key in order to connect, it wouldn't accept that key, but instead required the router's pw?

[rjmockler]

Regarding your Firefox bookmarks, if in Firefox you click on Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks, Import and Backup, there is an option to Export Bookmarks to HTML. The file that is created should import into any browser.

[blufeld]

Thanks for the tip, rjmockler. Needed that! Actually, Debian 12 did boot the Acer netbook, but couldn't see available networks due to a firmware deficiency, probably lacked wpa_supplicant, something proprietary (non-free) no doubt.

[Midnight True]

While Brave did install by this method on LMDE 6, it wouldn't open because of a GPU error.

Please share output of the following terminal command

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inxi -Fxxrzc0

but when you install Brave a certain way, it provides for bookmark importation that requires an HTML file, rather than the name of a source browser.

Brave also import/export bookmarks as html

I get a prompt for a keyring pass when I launch Brave Briwser, What's an easy way to get rid of the keyring pass, without logging in?

To my knowledge unfortunately you can't, its a security feature by chromium especially if you put a login credential on brave's password manager

[Knightstmplr1]

What's an easy way to get rid of the keyring pass, without logging in?

To my knowledge unfortunately you can't, its a security feature by chromium

When it asks you to put in a password for the keyring, you simply leave it blank and hit enter, it will come up one more time and again, just leave it blank, that will be the end of having to use a keyring password for the browser and should never ask you again, thats provided that you have not entered one to begin with when it has come up in the past.

[blufeld]

$ inxi -Fxxrzc0
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-12-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 5.8.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.37 wm: muffin dm: LightDM
Distro: LMDE 6 Faye base: Debian 12.1 bookworm
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Dimension E521 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0UW457 v: A03 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
v: 1.1.5 date: 02/05/2007
CPU:
Info: dual core model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K8
rev: 2 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2000 cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000
bogomips: 8012
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Curie pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: VGA-1
empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:01d1 temp: 49.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X:
loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv dri: nouveau
gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x1024 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Dell E173FP res: 1280x1024 dpi: 96
diag: 433mm (17")
API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: NV46 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP51 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:10.1 chip-ID: 10de:026c
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-12-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX vendor: Dell driver: b44 v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 04:07.0 chip-ID: 14e4:170c
IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 7.33 TiB used: 11.75 GiB (0.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168 size: 3.64 TiB
speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 57.3 GiB
serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 52.15 GiB used: 11.75 GiB (22.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdc1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 49.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2220 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2214 pm: flatpak pkgs: 6
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com faye main upstream import backport
2: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
3: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
4: deb http://security.debian.org bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
5: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Info:
Processes: 187 Uptime: 4m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 1.64 GiB (42.8%)
Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.3.26

[blufeld]

I had the same keyring password problem with Chromium In Fedora. To avoid the prompt, I modified the launch command with "--password-store=basic", as in
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --password-store=basic %U

[Coggy]

In installed brave on both mint and lmde6, on both an amd laptop and a nvidia desktop. No problems.
These are the instructions I followed (the top grey box): https://brave.com/linux/

I guess you might have some odd hardware, and others who may know more than I do have already asked for info on that.

[blufeld]

The above-mentioned modification when applied to the Desktop icon (launcher) worked, ie disabled the keyring pw prompt, even if Brave is sourced from flatpak. Just insert "--password-store=basic" in front of "%U". Open the launcher as text, and modifiy the exec line. I don't see an easy way to modify the Brave launcher in the menu tree, and the launcher pinned to panel.

Maybe if I install the nVidia GPU driver, G72 [GeForce 7300 LE], I could install Brave normally.

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$ sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver firmware-misc-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver

That's odd, I installed this driver in LMDE 5, but not there for LMDE 6 Beta. I request that this driver be available for LMDE 6.

[Midnight True]

When it asks you to put in a password for the keyring, you simply leave it blank and hit enter, it will come up one more time and again, just leave it blank, that will be the end of having to use a keyring password for the browser and should never ask you again, thats provided that you have not entered one to begin with when it has come up in the past.

Thanks for the tip.
Tried it before and retried it again and unfortunately it does not work

I had the same keyring password problem with Chromium In Fedora. To avoid the prompt, I modified the launch command with "--password-store=basic", as in
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --password-store=basic %U

Thnaks for the tip. This one work for me Thanks again