Hi everyone, I’m seeking support for a very annoying issue in the brave browser interface.
Description of the issue:
Once in a while (let’s say every hour, but it can vary a lot), seemingly randomly, part of the brave interface becomes unusable. In particular, all of these problems appear simultaneously:
All of the tabs become unclickable. So, if you want to change tab, either you use ctrl+tab or you use mouse scroll, but clicking on top of a specific one do nothing
You can no longer close a tab by clicking on it with mouse wheel (middle button)
The address bar is also unresponsive to mouse click (you have to use ctrl+l to edit the address)
It is no longer possible to select text
Other issues like that
All of these problems momentarily disappear if I restart the browser.
It has been some weeks since this problem appeared, and I updated the brave several time since then. I also tried to reset brave by manually deleting /home/user/.cache/BraveSoftware and /home/matteo/.config/BraveSoftware but it didn’t work.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Brave 1.85.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional Information:
My operating system is Arch Linux and I’m using gnome 49.2 with wayland
Interesting issue – to confirm, the browser isn’t actually “crashing” right? Just freezing? Can you also confirm/test the following:
Do you have any flags enabled in brave://flags? If so, which ones?
Can you try toggling Graphics acceleration off in Settings --> System --> Use Graphics Acceleration[...], relaunch and see if the issue still occurs?
Do you have any extensions installed at this time? If so, can you try disabling them and test to see if the crash still occurs?
If nether of the above make a difference, try creating an additional profile (Menu --> More tools --> Add profile), close your original profile window, then browse normally for a bit and see if the same issue happens in the new profile?
This sounds oddly similar to what’s going on, on Windows, but I had never heard of a single Mac or Linux user with it.
I wonder, would the original poser mind checking out this Github and checking the videos I provided on it to see if what I have both captured on video, is similar to what they are seeing?
I don’t think it’s the same issue, but I do think the symptom seems a bit similar? If it is, @matte156 you didn’t by chance have a YouTube video playing in a background window, did you when these freezes occur? Because currently us Windows users (well, a small few it seems) are running into something similar, but only when YouTube is a “background window” for some reason.
No, it’s very different. Browser does not “freeze“. All of the websites remain almost perfectly usable (apart from selecting text and some minor issues). The problem is clicking some elements of the browser interface (so not the websites, but the elements like tabs, address bar) with mouse. When the issue will reappear I will upload a screen recording to be clearer.
After looking the video over, ok yea that’s not at all like my issue, not even half of it. You can’t click, but I see your tab bar acting as if it does know the cursor is over it as it animates, but you really aren’t able to click it.
I wonder if there’s an interaction with Wayland happening here. Beyond my ability to help further, but the video you attached was good enough for me, not the same bug as me, as it does recognize your cursor, just not the click event.
@matte156 thank you for the recording – super helpful.
Can you please try launching Brave from the terminal and include the --disable-features=Vulkan flag and test to see if the issue occurs?
(Was able to download and just play the mp4).