Has there been any progress in getting rid of Brave’s breaking of Google Maps and other sites with the black/dark screen bug?
I note that the old thread has been automatically closed but no sign the issue was actually solved…
From what I’ve seen it seems to be caused by a layer problem. Where Brave tries to refresh ALL layers instantly on the page.
I’ve so far seen this happen on Facebook messenger, Facebook newsfeed, Google Maps, Google Earth, and a few other websites. There seems to be something in Brave which makes it want to instantly refresh ALL layers, which ends up breaking some graphic layers. I have also seen Brave do this while the website is just sitting open with no interaction going on, it just flashes the screen dark for a fraction of a second, this is not something that has happened with Chrome, Firefox or Edge when I’ve been using these same sites with those browsers.
I’ve done diagnostics in Brave as follows;
- Tried all shields off, Tried all shields on.
- Tried all domains marked safe in NoScript.
- Tried 2D Layers Only on sites that support it.
- Tried a comparison between four different browsers (Brave is the only one with this bug).
- Tried disabling all extensions.
- Checked Radeon Driver up to date (not radeon issue).
- Checked all third-party background tasks during bug.
No resolution. Bug remains (Only in Brave browser, Firefox, Chrome and Edge don’t produce the same bug).
The bug seems to come at random, whether the site is being interacted with or not, it can be sitting there with no mouse movement and still happen, or it can happen when scrolling, or when hovering over a popup layer, totally at random.
Most often instance of the bug appears when grabbing and scrolling in google maps, sending the map black and unreadable but leaving the frame and top layers in place.
This definitely seems to be a layers bug where Brave is forcing a layer to update when it shouldn’t be.
Current version: Brave 1.32.113 Chromium 96.0.4664.45 Official Build 64-bit.
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64bit.
Extensions installed: Social Fixer for Facebook, NoScript, uBlock Origin.