Brave opens as a new instance and crashes the running one

[Federico Zivolo]

Describe the bug
Lately I started experiencing this problem where when I open a link, Brave launches as a new instance (I see two Brave icons in the Dock), the new one "bounces" for a while and eventually the old instance crashes and the new one opens the link.

Your configuration

// Use https://finicky-kickstart.now.sh to generate basic configuration
// Learn more about configuration options: https://github.com/johnste/finicky/wiki/Configuration

// Get Bundle ID: osascript -e 'id of app "SomeApp"'

const BRAVE_PERSONAL = { name: 'Brave Browser', profile: 'Default' };
const BRAVE_SIRONA = {
  name: 'Brave Browser',
  profile: 'Sirona Medical',
};

module.exports = {
  options: {
    hideIcon: false,
  },
  defaultBrowser: BRAVE_PERSONAL,
  handlers: [
    // Zoom
    {
      match: ['*.zoom.us/*'],
      browser: '/Applications/zoom.us.app',
    },
    // Calendar links
    {
      match: ({ opener }) => opener.bundleId === 'com.apple.iCal',
      browser: BRAVE_SIRONA,
    },
  ],
};

To Reproduce

I'm not sure how to reproduce this, it happens seemingly randomly. I tried to restart the Mac to no avail. In the past the same happened with Chrome when I used Choosy rather than Finicky.

[Federico Zivolo]

I don't want to talk to soon but I may have fixed it reinstalling Brave. I'll keep this issue updated with any progress.

[Federico Zivolo]

update, it still crashes

[ramnathk]

I see this with Chrome on my system too. Please help

[Federico Zivolo]

The only solution I found is to reinstall the browser every time it starts doing it 😞

[Javier Martínez]

It happens to me as well since a few days ago