Brave Browser Help

Thanks, I have read many different threads about this, one of which reported they'd done this successfully from the command line. It did partially work as there was a Brave folder under policies where there wasn't one before. I have since deleted it as it didn't include the line about suppressing the warning. I tried to do this from command line as I don't feel comfortable with registry. I have found notebook (didn't even know it was there!) so will try your suggestion. The only thing that's concerning me is that I have seen different posts stating that Brave does not show under Policies and that is the case with my laptop, it's not there, so I don't know if the MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies is the correct command as there is no \BraveSoftware\Brave] software there.

LevelBest said:

The only thing that's concerning me is that I have seen different posts stating that Brave does not show under Policies and that is the case with my laptop, it's not there

That's correct. Nothing's there unless you deliberately put it there.

The proof is in the pudding -- add it and then launch your Brave, and see if it suppresses the upgrade nag.

Thanks, I understand. I'll give it a go over the weekend. I've also been looking at the Supermium Browser and I'm going to download that and give it a test drive. At least that will solve the problem of getting the update issue.

LevelBest said:

I've also been looking at the Supermium Browser and I'm going to download that and give it a test drive. At least that will solve the problem of getting the update issue.

Just to make sure we're clear, the "problem" that is solved by the Brave registry edit above is to prevent the "upgrade your OS to Win10" nag banner in Brave. That won't do anything about websites that complain about you using an old OS or browser, which websites will still know from the browser's User-Agent string Brave sends to every website.

The User-Agent string tells websites what browser, browser version, OS, and OS version you're using. Some websites, such as banks and credit card companies, for instance, will use that information to try and bar you from using Win7. To solve this problem, you can add a browser extension like Ray's "User-Agent Switcher and Manager", which tells your browser to fake the OS and browser being reported in the User-Agent string.

Since you're shifting the topic to Supermium, note that Supermium (as well as Thorium, mentioned upthread) address the latter problem by automatically faking the User-Agent string for you, without having to install Ray's extension. Even if you're using Win7, Supermium 122 and Thorium 122 will tell websites you're using Chrome 122 on Win10.

I just wanted to make it clear that the Brave registry edit and the use of Supermium/Thorium 122 are addressing two different problems.

Thanks for that, I appreciate we're talking two different subjects. I haven't tried the regedit again as I downloaded Supermium this morning as that would enable me to have an up to date browser, and get rid of the W10 nag I downloaded it successfully but noticed it came up with a message to say 'this programme may not have installed correctly and reinstall with recommended settings.' I don't know if that is a standard message that comes up however, it installed OK and I was able to import bookmarks. I was disappointed that it's based on Chrome as I am trying to get away from chrome/google. I can't download youtube videos and after having done a system restore, chrome no longer allows me to do this despite having done it before. I think I unintentionally removed the extension that let me do this. I seemed to have ended up with three browsers, none of which do what I would like. For now supermium is uninstalled until I can do further research. I think a few previous posters put some workarounds for downloading youtube videos so I will revisit. It will have to be a work in progress as this all takes time and back to work tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for their input.

I’m going to reinstall Supermium, however, does anyone know what this means when downloading “ Enable Ungoogled Supermium mode in shortcut.” Would this give me an ungoogled version which looks and acts the same as the normal version?

Thank you. "The biggest difference with ungoogled chromium is no google extensions." That is just what I'm after although Firefox doesn't agree with my computer. I've created a restore point, made a system image and when I get an opportunity, I'll download Supermium with that 'ungoogled' part ticked and see what happens. I'll update the thread with the results.