After uninstalling Brave, which is my default browser, a popup displayed in the taskbar and when clicked, OS default browser selection modal is shown

[MadhaviSeelam]

Description

After uninstalling Brave, which is my default browser, a popup displayed in the taskbar and when clicked, OS default browser selection modal is shown. This appears to be upstream issue as I am able to reproduce with Chrome Canary but could not reproduce with Opera or Naver Whale

Steps to reproduce

1. Uninstall Brave Browser (all channels)
2. click Reset via Apps > Default Apps
3. Set Microsoft Edge as a default
4. Install 1.71.114
5. launch Brave
6. click Set Brave as a default
7. click Set default in Apps > Default apps > Brave
8. Uninstall Brave via control panel

Actual result

a popup displayed in the taskbar and when clicked, OS default browser selection modal is shown

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Expected result

taskbar popup should not show

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.71.114 Chromium: 130.0.6723.58 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	89c4031c685a4296315a6f421f46275f0b72dd55
OS	Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.4317)

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

@rebron
cc: @brave/qa-team