Two windows are opened when installing for Windows without admin privileges
See original GitHub issueDescription
When installing Brave without admin, you’ll notice that two windows are being launched. The first window will include the brave://welcome
tab and the other window will have brave://newtab
opened. @srirambv @bsclifton have reproduced this several times as well.
Steps to Reproduce
- download one of the latest stub installers for Win
- double click on the stub installer and select “No” under the UAC prompt
- click
Yes
when promptedBrave can be installed without admin privileges. Continue?
Once Brave is installed and launched, you’ll notice two windows being launched.
Actual result:
Expected result:
Should only open brave://welcome
in a single window. There shouldn’t be two windows.
Reproduces how often:
100% reproducible using the above STR.
Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave | 0.56.6 Chromium: 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) beta(64-bit) |
---|---|
Revision | 9ab0cfab84ded083718d3a4ff830726efd38869f-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1002} |
OS | Mac OS X |
Reproducible on current release:
- Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds?
Yes, currently reproducible with the dev
, beta
and release
stub installers.
Additional Information
CCing @bsclifton @srirambv as they’ve experienced this issue as well.
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 5 years ago
- Reactions:1
- Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)
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Appears fixed for me as of Nightly 1.37.40.
@mihaiplesa are we passing
--do-not-launch-chrome
to theinstall
action on the update server?Edit: I was able to check this myself and it appears that no, we are not passing
--do-not-launch-chrome
to theinstall
action. I think we should do so.