Description of the issue: In the last few hours Brave goes into “not responding” mode when I attempt to close a tab or restore tabs using the box that pops up that says Brave did not close properly. I have had to close Brave many times. How can this issue be reproduced? Yes Expected result: …

What about the requested brave://crashes? And installed extensions?

Is this what you mean? Crash from Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 3:59:16 PM Status: | Not uploaded | | - | Local Crash Context: | 3247844e-e175-4668-86d6-566a8056b541 | Only new extension is Bitdefender SecurePass, which I got on Jan. 13; the crashes all took place on Jan. 15.

PC#1: The last crash report is from January 2nd. Installed extensions: Exodus Web3 Wallet 25.46.4 Tampermonkey 5.4.1 TornTools 8.04 PC#2: Only 1 crash today, however I had to force-close Brave maybe a dozen times until I found this thread with the solution. I clicked on the upload button: Cra…

Yes, they want you to upload those crashes and they can read the crash and help pinpoint what might have happened.

Not sure where to find the fail info, but logging into certain apps (e.g. x.com ) fails since latest update (can login fine with other browsers): Brave 1.86.139 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium: 144.0.7559.59 Anyone else having this issue?

[image] tc1176: Not sure where to find the fail info Twice in this thread this has been mentioned now. :sweat_smile: [image] steeven: Can be found at Brave://crashes. The ID ending in 000000. [image] MasterLink: What about the requested brave://crashes?

Just letting everyone know we have an open issue for this here: Reports of Brave not responding when closing a vertical tab in 1.86.139 opened 03:38PM - 16 Jan 26 UTC (UTC) [image] hollons …

I have to add, I use vertical tabs maximized, never minimized, yet the issue still happens for me. Also I noticed that tabs that I opened before the update are fine, I can close them without issues. (My Brave is set to resume opened tabs from last session when I open it. I always have many tabs open…

Started having this issue yesterday, have many vertical tabs open. Posted about it not knowing this topic existed.

I am having the same issue and was able to resolve it by disabling vertical tabs. Just wanted to add that while trying to resolve and recreate the issue I found that the window does not freeze when closing tabs which I opened before restoring the last session. It did freeze when trying to close tab…

Brave "not responding" when I try to close a tab

Brave Browser Desktop Support

steeven January 28, 2026, 5:48pm 41

The fix is in today’s release Release Channel 1.86.146

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Brave "not responding" when I try to close a tab

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