Latest brave keeps crashing when interacting with youtube tool bar

Brave Browser Desktop Support
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Description of the issue:

After a system update (along with brave) yesterday, now when watching a youtube video, it almost always crashes if I click on the progress bar.
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. open a youtube video

  2. do a few click on the progress bar of the video

  3. whole browser crashes and close upon a click

Brave Version: Brave 1.97.56 (Official Build) (x86_64)

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How do I manually submit crash reports?

NOTE: In a Brave Browser New Window, go to: brave://settings/privacy and ENABLE Automatically send diagnostic reports

READ the guidance:

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 the numbers, here, in a new reply. Example of a Crash Report ID number:

22291165410445
22291165410445524×138 11.7 KB

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Why can’t I see what’s being sent out?

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@Reflection

According to Brave Search (Answer with AI):

On Linux, Brave Browser crash log files are stored in:

~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Crash Reports

Within this directory, you will find subdirectories such as pending (for unsent reports) and attachments. For more detailed system-level crash data, you can also check systemd-coredump by running coredumpctl list brave in the terminal, or view recent kernel messages with dmesg -T | tail -100.

(AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.)

You might try:

find ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/"Crash Reports" \ -type f -name '*.dmp' -print 2>/dev/null

You are also supposed to be able to visit brave://crashes in the browser, and there, view crash reports.

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You didn’t mention the distro you’re using … and which type of Brave install you’re using.

Also, you stated “tool bar” in the Title and “progress bar” in the post. Those are two different components. Yea, you might have issues with both, but better to be explicit.
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I tested with these Brave versions (I primarily use Beta):

Brave 1.97.56 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Chromium: 155.0.8059.40

Brave 1.98.54 (Official Build) Beta (x86_64)
Chromium: 155.0.8059.40

These are native installs, using dedicated Brave repos.
(i.e., I do NOT use Flatpak, Snap, etc).

I am using openSUSE Leap (Linux, obviously).
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I have no issues using the YT Progress Bar (among the other bars).
As shown in screenshot, I clicked the bar to instantly move to various time locations; plus sliding the Playhead to other time locations.
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It’s also opensuse but tw.

More clarifications and findings:

  1. It is the progress bar that always crashes youtube. But sometimes without touching the progress bar it still crashes after some watching time.
  2. This crash behavior doesn’t happen in the first 20 secs or so, meaning you can move the progress bar safely in the first 20 secs of watching a new youtube video. If you click on a new youtube video (without crashing the first one), this 20 secs rule refreshes, meaning moving progress bar doesn’t crash in the first 20 secs on a new video.
  3. I have a few other brave profiles and this youtube crash behavior doesn’t appear in those profiles.
  4. The crash behavior still happens after disabling all youtube related extensions and restart.
  5. So far I’ve tried cleaning cache of the browser but it doesn’t help.
  6. I tried to see the crash report files under ~/.config/Brave… but they seem to be encrypted so I’m not sure what I’m sending