When I go to “Default Apps”>“Web” there are two “Brave browser” entries.
I asked Leo AI in Brave about this and it tells me that this is a known Brave browser bug, it then proceeds to give me wrong information about how to erase it. The system does not allow me to delete the second entry because I am on Atomic.
How could I make this mistaken fix work in Atomic to delete one of the entries? I was also suggested by Leo AI to edit it out with Nano but it is not writable.
Recommended fix:
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop
Then refresh the desktop database:
update-desktop-database
✅ Keep com.brave.Browser.desktop — it’s the newer
format and integrates better with modern desktop environments.
You’ve already done the correct thing for when using a package from outside of Fedora, i.e. reporting it to the packager that you got the package from.
If you want to disable one of the icons until that’s fixed, you can add a .desktop file with the same application name in your ~/.local/share/applications with Hidden=true in it. This will override the global desktop file from the package.
Another option would be to use the package of that browser from Flathub instead.
Brave only advises their Flathub package as a last resort because it contains bugs (quoted from their page:it is not yet working as well as our native packages), I will use your fix thank you.