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On Solus (distro) with "mscorefonts" successfully installed and able to be used in Firefox, sites like Google Docs do not show "Arial" or "Times New Roman," indicating the Brave snap is not able to find them.

I confirmed this by downloading the .bz2 version of 0.18.29 (same as current Snap) and noticed the text within the UI is much crisper than the Snap version. As expected, Google Docs successfully defaulted to Arial using the .bz2 version while no such option appears in the Snap.

Perhaps this is part of the handover process but @flexiondotorg put v0.18.23dev in the repository but we haven't released it because it's not building on the build service (I note that the publisher field in the store is empty). Any way of getting this release out ourselves soon or do we need to wait for the handover process to be complete?

The icon doesn't show for the launched browser as reported upstream about the snap install. To fix this add StartupWMClass=brave to the desktop file entry.

Since we haven't yet handed over the snap... ( #1 )

Brave needs a contact field in the store. Probably should be https://github.com/snapcrafters/brave/issues.

We received a bug report that a user downloaded Brave on Ubuntu via Snap and got an error that it was running without the sandbox. It appears @posix4e added the sandbox a month ago in 709b55d but https://snapcraft.io/brave hasn't been updated since November. Could you please update the version in the Snap store to avoid exposing users to security issues?

Sorry if this is not the right place to report this

What your thoughts on using brave/browser-laptop#10633 to build snaps. We get them as a byproduct

Japanese and Chinese fonts don't display. Jamesh from the snapcraft.io forums made a suggestion to add the line "-desktop" to the plugs section. Supposedly, this should allow Brave to use system fonts, which should fix the problem. (Chinese and Japanese fonts work in Firefox and Chrome on my system.)

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/issue-with-fonts-in-brave/2948/5

I'd submit a patch myself, but I have no idea how to test snaps.

I'm on Solus MATE edition.

On Solus (a Linux distro), I have installed Brave using snap.

I couldn't get Brave to pin to the panel in Budgie (the Desktop Environment). After inquiring about it, I found out the name of the generated ".desktop" file (for me it is located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications) needs to match with the window's WM_Class(string).

For Brave, this string is "brave," while the generated file is named "brave_brave.desktop," which can be easily renamed but I believe will be replaced upon an update to Brave.

I assume other Desktop Environments adhere to this standard also, as Budgie is derived from GNOME 3.

Installed from "Ubuntu Software" on Ubuntu 17.10 but won't start.

tail /var/log/syslog -f

Feb 9 11:04:41 Upstairs-Latitude-E6230 gnome-software[1930]: running search with refine-flags=require-icon with timeout=60 with max-results=20 with search=brave on plugin=snap on apps system/snap/Snap Store/desktop/brave/* took 1732ms

I'm not exactly sure why, but everything in my brave snap is 2 hours behind. Which I assume is related to the timezone.

After an autoupgrade to the Chromium forked version, I removed the old Brave snap. When I notice my bookmarks had not been automatically imported, I looked at ~/snap/brave but the data folder which current had been linked to was removed when I removed the snap. I still had data from redundant folders created from previous upgrades: 18 32 33.

Isn't the standard practice to leave the data directory intact when removing snaps and apt packages?

Hey folks! I tried out the Brave snap this afternoon because I wanted to see if this bug would be present—I've been having the same issue packaging Mailspring as a snap.

If you install the Brave snap and then make it the default web browser through Settings > Details > Default Applications (on Ubuntu 16), when you click a link to a web page in an application, the running copy of Brave is killed and a new copy of Brave launches to handle the link. I believe this is caused by a snapd issue with Electron's app.makeSingleInstance API, but I haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/electron-snap-killed-when-using-app-makesingleinstance-api/2667/17. Just wanted to let you know!

Brave by default seems to push downloads to a directory within the user's ~/snap folder (see screenshot, please) (Also note that I'm not entirely proficient in Snap tech and don't know the technicalities of this, so I'm not sure of additional detail I may otherwise be able to provide)