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Flags do not save on relaunch.

See original GitHub issue

Description

brave://flags do not save when relaunching or manually reopening the browser.

Steps to Reproduce

Change Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme to Enabled or Disabled.
Relaunch
Go back to brave://flags and the flag has not changed.

Actual result:

The flag value didn’t change.

Expected result:

The flag value would change.

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version 1.1.20 Chromium: 79.0.3945.74 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Didn’t test
Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Didn’t test
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Didn’t test

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? N/A
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Miscellaneous Information:

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

FozzieHicommented, Feb 18, 2020

@bsclifton I don’t have any other flags to try, it’s possible this behaviour could be replicated by using other Expired flags that are shown when the “Temporarily unexpire M<version> flags.” flag is enabled, if not the issue is probably obsolete.

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bscliftoncommented, Feb 18, 2020

@FozzieHi the flag you mentioned in the original post doesn’t exist anymore; do you have another example I can try? All of the flags seem to be working fine for me

What platform are you on? (do you have OS specifics?)

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