I captured it again and found it does auto-pause when it’s frozen for so long that the audio simply stops, because it no longer has AV sync.
It appears if you click through the frozen UI, it IS clicking things, so it’s the visual side that freezes, but interacting with it still happens, you just can’t see (which could be dangerous if you start frantic-clicking on a frozen browser thinking nothing is happening, but underneath that frozen framebuffer you are causing chaos on a website).
I do hope with video evidence of this issue that AMD/Nvidia users are running into, perhaps now we can fix this?
Honestly my current steps to reproduce are: Play YouTube video in background at highest quality, 1080p or 4k, be HERE on this Brave Community in another Brave Window. Scroll around, type, just interact HERE while YouTube plays in the background. Eventually within the hour, it’ll freeze.
That’s how often this is starting to become for me at this point, and it’s beyond frustrating when evidence is given, suddenly no one responds.
@Mattches ? Again please RE: Brave UI freezes while watching YouTube videos at random intervals - #6
I do not want this issue burried and forgotten. People ARE running into this issue, NO we cannot provide logs because there are none, and they are apparently Nvidia users, but I’m AMD, so even GPU vendor has nothing to do with it. I have tried without extensions and no, it doesn’t help. In fact when I was trying to help another user with their HDR issue and put my Brave in software rendering mode (to match their issue), I was shocked, it froze without even playing a YouTube video in a similar way, without hardware acceleration. So clearly something’s up. (YouTube auto-launched when Brave relaunched turning off graphics accel because I clicked Relaunch when YouTube was already up.)