I am using Brave v1.86.139 and I am noticing that recently, whenever I open tabs and perform actions quickly (switching tab or switching windows), pressing something, or reloading tabs very quickly (and I am speculating the relation of the crashes with these events), for whatever reason, **Brave has…

@Maddy467 How do I manually submit crash reports? https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/22281484910221-How-do-I-manually-submit-crash-reports After you click the “Send Now” button, return to brave://crashes and gather up the Crash Report ID numbers that end with a string of zeros. Post …

Can confirm, I am experiencing the exact same issues on the same v1.86.139 which I recently updated to. I never had these issues before.

I’m struggling a lot with this for the past three days. Even just loading a profile, closing a tab freezes Brave, I have to close it & can’t use the “Reload Tabs”, because it crashes. I cleared all of the caché & just reinstalled, hoping this get’s a lot better. It’s impossible to use like this.

For about the past month, I’ve been noticing Brave hanging a lot especially after filling out a form and submitting, then Brave goes catatonic for 20-30 seconds. Tab bar turns solid and says “not responding”. I rebooted and still problem persists.

Brave has Recently been Crashing A Lot for Me

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A possible fix/workaround:

‘Brave Crashing/Not Responding - #7 by morevo’

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Brave has Recently been Crashing A Lot for Me

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