Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
I am not sure how you can reproduce this issue yourselves, because it may not happen or it may happen only sometimes, but for me it happens all the time now when I do the following.
While I am downloading something and try to add a page to my bookmarks, when the bookmark pop-up window appears, it flickers slightly left and right/glitches and becomes unusable. Also if I somehow manage to select the location of the bookmark which I want it to be in, when the dropdown list appears, it bugs out and stratches all they way âbelowâ my screen / infinite scroll and I cannot type anything on the keyboard in that section to look for the folder I want to save my bookmark it, so it semi-freezes (it takes some time to respond to my commands.
Also, when audio is playing on the background and something changes in the audio like, playing next song or song end and I am in the dropdown list of my bookmarks in the pop-up menu, the list does the same infinite scroll bug.
Expected result: not sure what to say here but it should work properly normally without any bugs, but if you ask me what is the result you are looking for when trying to reproduce the bug, then the bookmark pop-up window should flicker and if manage to enter to select where exactly to save the bookmark, the list will expand vertically endlessly and semi-freeze.
OP reports a performance issue: that the process of creating/saving a Brave Browser bookmark, is unstable when Brave Browser (Windows OS) is also doing one of the following:
âdownloading somethingâ
âaudio is playing on the background and something changes in the audio like, playing next song or song endâ
A) Create and use a new Brave Browser user profile - only â meaning, do not have any other Brave Browser user profile tabs/windows open. When creating this new Brave Browser user profile for test purposes, do not import anything, do not allow/enable any Brave Browser âbells and whistlesâ such as Brave Rewards, Brave Talk, etc.
B) Disable any extensions that you may have installed. You might also test each of those extensions, one-at-a-time.
Yeah I would like to know the answer to A & B above that @289wk asked, but also, if youâre not downloading or anything, are you able to save bookmarks normally?
@SorinIsHere then Iâm inclined to think that the issue may be with the extensions you have installed in your main profile. Can you please try disabling them and then testing again to see if the issue persists?
@Mattches , I donât know if Brave/Chromium does this, and currently out of the house to test, but does brave://flags carry over to different profiles, or is that profile specific?
I wonder if a configuration/flag is specific to a profile perhaps.
Flags do carry over across profiles. That said either way @SorinIsHere can you confirm whether or not you have enabled any flags (brave://flags) in the browser?
Sorry for ghosting all this time. It seems I have disabled: Enable benchmarking.
But the rest of them seem to be on default.
How would I ever know which settings have been changed (if) there are tons of options in the flags page, there is no sort by last modified button there, that would have been helpful.
Not that I know of, because it may be specific to your system. I tried to replicate it but like you said, it may not be reproducible on ours or if we can, itâs so intermittent on my machine Iâm not seeing it.
If I may treat it possibly as a GPU bug, what is your GPU, and driver version? And if you go to brave://gpu, can you screenshot the following sections? To me itâs almost like the graphic surfaces arenât be rendered right, hence flickering, stretching, etc.
I donât expect yours to match mine in any way, but I have at least one idea perhaps, and it might just be the GPU driver needs updating. (The driver version reported here isnât exactly the driver versions the GPU manufacturers advertise them as so you might need to go into your GPUâs control panel to find the advertised version, as Chromium sees the âinternalâ version number that Windows does, but sadly manufacturers love to do this version number game where the numbers donât actually match what they advertise them as.)
Ahh ok there we go. I suspected right, the GPU is misbehaving. Everything says Software only on things that very much should be green. (The first screenshot of mine should mostly match yours with the exception of âGraphiteâ as thatâs something I personally enabled).
Your GPU is not working, itâs not even showing up to Brave as a GPU, itâs using Googleâs own ANGLE renderer as a failsafe.
(Just saw you type in the GPU and driver info).
If you go to brave://settings/system, this isnât turned off, is it?
If it is enabled, weâll need to dig deeper from there. (But do verify that the Nvidia control panel is indeed reporting version 581.80 per Nvidiaâs site, I need to verify the numerical string.) Additionally, on Edge, if you similarly go to edge://gpu, is there also âSoftware onlyâ showing up, or do you see far more green like my screenshot?
(Also, while not entirely unheard of, laptops with an Nvidia GPU usually do have two GPUâs. My ThinkPad has a Quadro, but also an Intel GPU in the CPU. This is the one that actually handles the browser, as the Quadro only kicks in for apps that need its power, so if Edge is also showing âSoftware Onlyâ we may have a driver issue on Windows itself, and it might be the âother GPUâ, if your laptop has a CPU with an iGPU as this only applies to those, but something Iâm internally keeping in mind since you specified the mobile version of the 1060.)
I think I disabled graphics acceleration because of this sole reason, as I tried to find for solutions online and iâve seen this suggestion. But i will reenable it now
