After a Brave Update, I only get an Aw, Snap! screen and no extensions load. N-O-T-H-I-N-G works. ALSO, MY MOUSE ALSO WAS AFFECTED THIS TIME! The Left button won’t work correctly in Chrome or Brave! I can use my mouse in MS Edge’s browser. I can only half-a$$ limp along in Chrome buy changing the mouse settings from L to R button. I’ve followed other suggestions to uninstall, reinstall, and I’m just tired of the hassle. I’m about done with this colossal time suck of trying to get Brave to work. Any “time” I’ve “saved” using Brave has been gobbled up trying to get it to work.
UPDATE: I uninstalled Brave and reinstalled. It is a complete fail. I’ve also changed my mouse to a plug in and for some reason, it is working correctly. Go figure. My wireless mouse that quit working correctly will work on another computer. SO… what in the heck gives? I have work to do! I cannot afford the time for troubles like this.
Having the same issue. This is the second time in several months that the Brave browser has completely ceased to function. I will note that I am NOT having the mouse functionality issues–and Chrome works fine for me. Will watch this and other threads for insight.
Take a look at these other threads that popped up in the last day or two:
My issues sound the same. Mouse works fine. Chrome works fine. Updated Brave and got the Aw Snap screen. Tried to download Brave nightly and got Aw Snap on that too. Tried to uninstall Brave and reinstall, still get Aw Snap.
I have the same issue but with brand new fresh install downloaded today. I can navigate to nowhere with Brave including settings and welcome page. Private window is the same. Mouse and Chrome do work, however. Windows version 1909, 1836.535.
OK. Got it to work. Right click on Brave icon>Properties>Compatibility tab>Check box by the “Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows 8”, which is a ‘down arrow’ menu option. Then the program worked… for about two minutes. Now it won’t search or do anything. So frustrated now~!..
UPdate: Rebooted and it is working for the moment. I had unchecked ‘run as admin…’, and it worked. So, we’ll see.
Windows 8 compatibility mode worked for me too. Last time this worked as well, until Brave pushed another update and then it was fixed. I feel like Windows 8 compatibility mode is just a stopgap fix.
Update again: I am to the point where I cannot rely on Brave, which I do like. I don’t know if they don’t have enough people to troubleshoot the program or not. Every single time I try to use the icon to open the browser, I must select properties>compatibility to open the browser, and it is still giving me hiccups. I cannot directly open it. Ever. Unless there’s a fix, I’m going back with Chrome. FYI: I am also having trouble clicking on ANY links, even if I want to do so and a Google search has it as an ad link. Sometimes, I want to click on the ad. There’s no easy or fast way around this feature as well.
The solution to your problem is the following:
Close the browser.
Right click on the “Brave” icon on your desktop, select ‘Properties’ at the bottom and add “-disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity” to what’s currently in the Target field. My target field looks as follows: “C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe” -disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity
Click ‘Apply’ and ‘OK’.
Now start Brave by double clicking this icon and you’re browser should work as before.
WOW. Thank you! I did this before and it did not work. The reason being was I did not put a space after the quotation marks. Thank you for checking this page. I’m bookmarking it! I hope I won’t need this again. Merry Christmas!
Thanks! Issue resolved. However, if the Brave Browser pin in my Task Bar is having issue the same issue still. Is the a way to resolve this too? Using Windows 10 pro 64-bit.
Close your browser.
Right click on the item in the taskbar and chooce ‘unpin from taskbar’.
Now, right click on the Brave icon on your desktop (after you made the change i indicated earlier) and select ‘pin to taskbar’.
Voila.
