Description of the issue: Sometimes Youtube videos go grey/black screen during playback on my device(audio works fine), some videos don’t go black screen and plays normally. Disabling graphics acceleration works, the videos are not black screened anymore but browser starts lagging cause graphic acc…

Yes, didn’t solve the problem. I have also mentioned it in the description of the issue.

Also, I know this is a redundant reply, but clearing cache often fixes glitches for me.

Did that too, didn’t work either.

Looks like the same issue I had as highlighted here Whatsapp and some youtube videos play but only show a fuzzy background and audio - #7 by mac1508 What worked for me was to roll back Brave to 1.88.138 version I used Synaptic Package Manager to force a version. Search for brave-browser and use th…

Thanks, Downgrading seems to work, but do the devs know about this issue?

As well as being the subject of 3 topics in this forum it has been raised as an issue in github but looks like it has not been picked up (assigned) yet. The challenge maybe that this could be a Chromium issue rather than a Brave one!

Can anyone else here encountering this issue confirm that the update to v1.89.142 resolves the issue?

The latest release of Brave 1.89.143 solved it for me.

I am still seeing this issue on Brave 1.89.143. I found that resizing the brave window somehow makes it work (If i use full screen all is black).

Youtube video grey/black screen during playback

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Graynada April 23, 2026, 7:11pm 10

Seems to be resolved for me with latest release of Brave Release Channel 1.89.143 which includes upgraded Chromium to 147.0.7727.117

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