Prevent Webkit Browsers Ask for Password on LINUX

Any time I start a Brave or Chrome web-browser on my LINUX machine, I see a nasty modal password dialog that prevents the browser from starting up. Here is how to get rid of that dialog, on LINUX.

For Brave browser, open a command terminal and edit the file

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop

For Chrome browser, it would be

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/chrome-browser.desktop

Then change the "Exec" line to following:

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser --password-store=basic %U

The "--password-store=basic" argument should do the job. When you restart the bowser now, the nasty password dialog should not appear any more.

You could also copy the /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications and edit it there, that way you avoid the sudo command.