Description of the issue: In the last week or so, I start brave (fresh Windows session) and it appears to start normally. But when I try to enter an address, the entire browser locks up. I cannot resize it, select new-tab, or pull down any menus. This state lasts for 15 to 30 seconds before it func…

I disabled “Use graphics acceleration when available”. The problem does seem to be less frequent, but it still occurs. I am using Brave on Windows 11.

I think we are on the right track here and this issue will be somehow related to clipboard. I have this issue when a remote desktop is open in citrix receiver. I also have shared clipboard activated. I’ll try to turn off shared clipboard for a few days and see if that helps.

I agree, Jumika. For me in an X2Go session, when this happens in Brave, xfce4-clipman locks up as well. When I can access the clipman interface and clear its history, then the Brave problem goes away. However, if I kill the clipman process, the issue is still there. Perhaps it has more to do wit…

I often have a citrix remote desktop opened on my machine while using brave so this may be related to remote desktop/clipboard use.

For me, the same applies. I, too, always have a Citrix session open.

Too bad there is no option to turn off the shared clipboard anymore so i can’t test this…

Just wanted to let you know that Citrix is also the reason for me. When I close it, Brave works perfectly. Unfortunately many of us have to use Citrix and it makes Brave nearly unusable. :-/

I can also confirm I’ve only seen this Citirx Desktop open and closing it solves the problem immediately. Using Brave 1.71.123.

Same issue here. Running Citrix Workspace seems to be causing the random lockups. Interestingly, this also happens in Microsoft Edge (but not Firefox).

Locking up for about 30 seconds when I try to enter a web url in the address bar

Brave Browser

Syraxas October 30, 2024, 10:00am 35

Me too, can confirm the correlation with citrix. Closing the Citrix Desktop solves the issue immediately

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Locking up for about 30 seconds when I try to enter a web url in the address bar

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