Hi all, Recently brave has been crashing/not responding to almost every action. I originally had the issue when restoring tabs. I opened brave like normal and went to restore all my tabs from my previous session, and this results in the browser freezing and not responding. Closing with task manage…

In further testing just now, the normal browser won’t even load up anymore. Every time I start it up it’ll just be grey and not responding. I’m not sure what I did to cause this, and uninstalling and reinstalling the browser doesn’t fix the issue.

I’m experiencing similar issues. For me, these issues popped up just yesterday, 1/17/26. I haven’t tested incognito, but the freezing/crashing on regular tabs (or even just opening Brave) is on par with what you’re experiencing too. Currently running the latest version of Brave 1.86.139 (Official Bu…

Possibly related to - read on down through the post and replies at: ‘ Brave "not responding" when I try to close a tab ’ for the play by play. Somewhere along there, you will also find: Reports of Brave not responding when closing a vertical tab in 1.86.139 …

Thanks for linking the post. Something additional I wanted to add, though I don’t know if it’s related to normal brave: I’ve been using brave beta as a replacement, and I’m getting some crashing there. It has only happened over some sustained use, maybe ~30min or longer of a session. It has only c…

Had a few more crashes happen in quick succession, they seemed to be all caused by closing tabs. Specifically, I close tabs via. ctrl + W. The browser is pretty unusable at this point, given that I have to restart it and restore my tabs every few minutes.

I encountered a severe issue after updating to the latest stable version: I couldn’t launch the browser at all. Before the update, I had around 40 tabs open with the “Continue where you left off” setting enabled. As a result, every time I tried to start Brave, it would freeze and crash immediately …

thanks, this solved the issue, but it has made my browser a mess since I’ve around 50 tabs grouped for different scenarios. hope they’ll fix it soon

SInce around 16th January Brave browser (v.144.1.86.139 on Windows 11 v.25H2 2600.7623) randomly but frequently “stops responding”. If I force restart and choose option “Restore pages” it instantly “stops responding”. I use verticial tabs. If Brave no longer supports vertical tabs then I’ll have to …

@morevo You have helped many people ; thanks.

Hi there, I came to confirm this exact issue. Oddly enough, I had two “windows’“ accounts running to circumvent microsoft’s need to look up ny butthole, and the ‘restore last session’ crash usually only occurred on the pants down side of the machine (the show model, for downloading programs that…

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