Hello,

This is a first situation I've encountered since I've been using Nexus Dock for years, when it doesn't allow me to pin specific app - in this case Brave. I've unpinned some apps, browsers mostly, also Messenger PWA app to test if that will solve it and I still can't pin Brave. Dock doesn't run as admin nor Brave does. I definitely remember having it pinned in the past, so some sort of bug must've been introduced with more recent Nexus Duck update.

You will only get that message if Nexus thinks the application running is a PWA and then is unable to resolve it (perhaps because it was erroneously identified as a PWA).

I just opened a normal instance of Brave here and pinned it to the dock without problems.

Likewise, I had previously tested running Brave PWAs and pinning them to the dock, etc...

I need more details and screenshots to try and figure out what might be going on there. From what you wrote I assume this is the only situation where you had trouble pinning something to the dock, right?

I also tested it with Helium, which I had pinned just last month afair, and it also can't be pinned. Edge and gecko-based browsers work.

I also use Windhawk, but root Nexus folder is added in excluded processes list (+ added Brave few min ago), so I doubt it's the root cause.

Please post a screenshot of your desktop showing what you are trying to pin.

Also, currently the only supported PWAs are those from Edge, Chrome and Brave. Firefox is not on that list because it does not support PWAs. Never even heard of Helium until now.

Brave is a Win32 desktop application, so you should have no trouble pinning the browser itself to the dock. I suspect what you are trying to pin might be something else.

Just successfully pinned a Brave Youtube PWA to the dock as well, so no issues there either. Running the latest version of Brave.

I've uploaded screen recording here, as the file is too big to upload it directly:

https://ibb.co/4RRNZccF

Thanks for the GIF.

As usual, the devil is in the details. Apparently Brave has two types of installations (which I did not know about until now), User level and System-level (for all users).

User level (as it happens there) the browser is installed under:
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application

System level (as it happens here) it is installed under:
C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application

My guess is that this is what is causing the issue somehow.

Apparently if the installer was run with administrator privileges, Brave installs system‑wide, if the installer was run without admin rights, it installs per‑user. When I downloaded and installed Brave to add PWA support for it here, the installer asked for elevation, like normal Win32 apps do.

Okay that's odd. I've just dragged the shortcut to exe directly into dock, and it worked.

Of course, the problem was the browser under AppData being incorrectly identified as a PWA. Anyway, I already fixed it here, should have a new beta for you to try soon.

You're still running the free version of Nexus, right?

Correct, still on free version.

Ok, download a beta of the free version of Nexus that (should) fixes this issue and please let me know:

viewtopic.php?p=51087#p51087

It's fixed in beta version, thanks!