Pinning Brave to the taskbar on Windows 10 shows a generic document icon

[toolness]

Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one?

Yes. I found #786, but it's a closed issue, whereas I am still experiencing this problem. That issue also says that the proper icon isn't used while Brave is running, whereas I seem to be having the problem regardless of whether the app is running.

Describe the issue you encountered:

When Brave is unpinned from the taskbar, its icon looks fine, but as soon as I pin it, it becomes a standard "unknown document" icon like so:

Expected behavior:

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):

Windows 10

• Brave Version:

0.12.9

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start Brave
  2. In the taskbar, right-click the Brave icon and choose "Pin to taskbar"

• Any related issues:

While I appear to have the latest version of Brave, I first installed Brave a while ago--I forget when, but it might have been before #786 was fixed. I could try uninstalling and then re-installing Brave but I'm holding off on it unless I'm told to do otherwise.

[bsclifton]

@toolness good eye, noticing #786; This issue should have been fixed with #1944

Can you please try un-pinning, closing Brave... re-launching Brave and then re-pinning please? Specifically, it has to do with the app name that was associated with what was pinned. Thanks 😄

[toolness]

Just tried that and unfortunately it doesn't seem to change things :( Any other ideas? I'm happy to debug from my end.

[bsclifton]

I'm going to close this issue as there haven't been any recent reports. If we see this again, please reopen

@toolness if you still use Brave, please let me know if you still experience the issue? Thanks!

[LaurenWags]

Reported via twitter: https://twitter.com/Phil_Wheeler/status/881826396636561409

I have requested user to try your suggestion here #5749 (comment) will update once I receive additional information.

cc: @bsclifton

[kjozwiak]

Is this still an issue? @toolness, have you ran into this with newer builds? I tried reproducing the issue with newer and older builds and couldn't reproduce it on Win 10 x64.

@LaurenWags have we received a lot of reports from the community regarding this issue in the past few months? If this affected all Windows installs, I think we would get a lot more reports from the community.

Brave 0.19.3 rev 053c863 - Couldn't reproduce
Muon 4.4.9
libchromiumcontent 60.0.3112.101

Brave 0.18.23 rev 36ae2ec - Couldn't reproduce
Muon 4.3.10
libchromiumcontent 60.0.3112.90

Test Cases Used:

• pinning via the Desktop Icon -> Pin to taskbar
• Pinning via Taskbar -> Pin to taskbar
• Pinning via Start -> Search for Brave -> Right Click -> Pin to taskbar

I also attempted to go through the following:

• Installed Brave 0.12.9 rev: 0d11443
• Right clicked the Brave instance in the taskbar and selecting "Pin to taskbar"
• Updated to Brave 0.18.23 rev 36ae2ec

[srirambv]

I haven't seen this in a long time. It happened only during one release(around 0.12.x) but never happened again

[LaurenWags]

@kjozwiak no, I haven't seen a lot of reports of this in community, just received the one via twitter from my comment.