Latest version of brave 1.83.109 locks up my ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS pc

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. just open the browser

  2. the mouse and all keystroke freeze, have to restate pc

  3. if i force version 1.81.137 the above is not an issue. works as it should

Expected result:pc locks up

Brave Version( check About Brave):1.83.109 locks up pc, pc runs correctly on version 1.81.137

Additional Information:firefox works without issues, it seems to want to change text size before it locks

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If you launch the browser with --disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1 do you see an improved experience?

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Hi, I am using wayland as the windowing system in ubuntu. Not sure how to disable the line you said. Do you disable it in ubuntu before launching brave or when brave browser opens. I would not have time to do it in the browser as the mouse pointer stops working immediately.

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Do I type that in terminal then ok then it will launch brave?

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Tried running command in terminal, said command not found

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Ah, are you using the full command?

brave-browser --disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1

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I wasnt using “brave browser” in the command. I will have to update brave and then try it later today. Ill let you know

thanks

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Hi, did some experimenting today. The problem is actually from ver. 1.83.137 to 1.83.166. I tried ver. 112 which came out today. The page loaded further in its process but still locked up. I could see the whole page layout and it either changed page resolution or made the text smaller. One thing of note is in ubuntu settings under accessibility I have large text on.

Thanks
jim

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Did you attempt with the above command?

Do you see the issue with Accessibility settings set to Default?

Thanks!

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The above command does not work, I have not tried yet with accessibility off yet

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Turned accessibility setting to default, no difference. Above command does not work. Most of the time it locks up at the keyring page.
jim

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Hi
Just tried version 118 of brave and it still locks up the pc. When I reboot the pc, ubuntu goes through a recovery mode where its doing something with inodes which I dont understand.

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I just reinstalled brave browser using ver.1.83.120, same result. Whole pc locks up, I have to restart it. Everything works until I launch brave, most times I get paste the keyring then immediately locks up. I reverted back to 1.81.137 using synaptic package manager and everything works as it should. I have another pc running brave with the same ver. of ubuntu, but has different hardware and that one runs ver 1.83.118 without any problems. Any help here?

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This could be related to the open issue below.

Current work-around is to start the browser with --disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1 (avoids having to use --disable-gpu)

Thanks!

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I disabled hardware acceleration and now it will work on 1.83.120. Will this be fixed in the future?

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I have 2 pcs with different hardware but the same software ubuntu 22.04 lts. One will run brave with hardware acceleration on and one needs acceleration off.

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Updated to 1.84.132, still cannot run my desktop ubuntu pc with hardware acceleration on. It completely locks up ubuntu, have to restart the computer.