There is a workaround for the brave crash issue. It may not be 100% effective for everybody. I had no way to test this on broad sets of configs. But it worked for me.
My brave profile was ancient and survives few manual modifications.
So I backuped my brave passwords and bookmarks. Then i go with sudo dnf remove brave-browser
next rm -rfv ~/.config/BraveSoftware/
logoff log in or reboot
Install brave once again roll back my passwords and bookmarks
All work like charm
I put this in coffee break not in support or anything because I have no proof that will work on anybody else equipment but mine
I tried this. As soon as I opened the new installation of Brave, it crashed. I had not even imported the bookmarks or run sync. It did not help at all. I had hope for it to work though.
I have found that each morning, when I start the PC, I can start Brave and as soon as it opens, close it and open it again and it seems to be stable. I can close and restart it again all day and it is fine. If I close Brave for any length of time, I have to go through this procedure again to prevent it crashing.
It is annoying, but it still happens with our default Chromium as well. Only on this PC. The other PC is fine.
@WilsonPhillips Yup I can confirm that, my brave instance crashes for no apparent reason also. This is the only inconvenience I experience / found while using open mandriva. That given issue does not exist on any other distro I use, and I used quite a few last weeks when trying to resolve my nvidia issues.
BTW there is an excellent solution to all nvidia issues on linux⌠buy radeon . Anyway, Brave bug is persistent
If I may also add as a reminder. We donât build the package for Brave. I reached out to someone in their DevOps directly about the issues, provided the forum thread we were using to gather information, and did not get a reply about it. Mostly because no one was posting any errors or crash reports there, but also because they dropped the ball.
@zeroability Yup it almost exactly this. Iâm aware that is none of OM team fault I would gladly report a bug report, but there is no crash log or crash dump data. Which is weird as a duck. So have noting helpful or valuable to share. also opt in automatic error bug reports sending âprogramâ in brave. I found brave crashes on any video platform or more broadly on any platform that streams any kind of videos, but im not sure about that because it just crashes at random whether it feels to.
And if they (Brave browser devs) dropped the ball we as a community of OM or individuals canât do much about it.
So I probably will search for Brave replacement or just start to use FF for everything like I used to do in a past
I suspect itâs related to the kernel, video drivers, or ffmpeg. Those tend to be the usual suspects. Since you brought up video playback, I would try to find some Vorbis videos and play them in Brave to see if the issue can be reproduced.
Same behavior for me. It crashes right after starting and then seems quite stable in this session. And I also noticed that it crashed several times right after logging in to the bitwarden extension with my master password.
I have enabled that brave should open the tabs of the last session, which are always quite a lot. So mybe that can be a reason?
I do not think that tabs are the reason for this, I can have 2 tabs open or 22 it will crash anyway. Only extension i have is LanguageTool (English spell / grammar checker)
So either extensions are not the reason of it or there are pleora of them that may cause the crashes
I installed Brave from the OM Welcome menu and have not had this issue yet. It did update today and still works so maybe the flatpak version is bugged? Because Brave shows up in Discover as flatpak and another separate listing for OM package which mine is marked as installed from there and not flatpak. Try that maybe?
Same here. I do not use brave but out of curiosity, I installed it via OM Welcome app. I tried all the regular websites I use with the default browser and they work fine. No crashes for brave (so far). Donât know if it takes time to build up?!
I also did not have crashes on the default browser (ungoogled-chromium). However, recently I noticed, whenever I opened âfonts.google.comâ it would not show font glyphs (only font names) and after a while the tab would crash saying,
Aw, Snap!
Something went wrong while displaying this web page.
Error code: 159
But the browser itself would not crash. This is on Rolling, chromium version 135.0.7049.95. But this issue is not on cooker version, 138.0.7204.100.
HoweverâŚ, with little bit of monkeying around, I finally had chromium crash, the moment I opened the extensions page! Normally I do not bother with any extensions on browsers other than firefox. Even on firefox, I only install uBlock origin and Bitwarden password manager (that too only on account I use for banking or other official business). So, never had issue with chromium crashing. But now I see it on both versions of Chromium (Rolling and Cooker). This does not happen with Brave btw; extensions page opens fine.
Can somebody please verify the behavior on chromium, our default browser? Either go to extensions page from menu (Settings->Extensions) or just type chrome://extensions in the search bar.
. Anyway, Brave bug is persistent
