Description of the issue:
Sometimes when I launch Brave all the tabs are blank. They have proper page addresses but there is no content in the window. Reloading tabs (F5 or Ctrl+F5) does not fix it. Trying to open a new page (by entering address) opens blank pages too.
This gets fixed only by closing the browser and opening it again.
@ilozen,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Can you tell me if you are able to reproduce this every time you close/launch the browser?
I know there were a few extensions in the past that caused similar issues ā do you have any installed at this time? If so, can you please try disabling them and then testing to see if you still get the same issue when launching the browser?
Next thing I would try is disabling Hardware Acceleration (Settings --> System --> Hardware Acceleration) and see if this makes any difference. If not, Iād love to get a recording of the behavior if possible so I can get a better idea of what youāre encountering.
Thanks for the idea. Iāll do that and Iāll try to remember to keep OBS running when launching Brave. But I will need some time to ārun the testsā. Iāll get back with info here though.
I have exactly the same problem. I have no extensions added. I see this problem on three different computers, running Windows 10 and 11, on BOTH Brave and Edge. I suspect it is a serious Chromium bug because it happens on both browsers. It is intermittent and usually closing the browser and restarting it will bring all the tab content back.
@Mattches has your team been notified? Can they confirm this is a known issue with Chromium (upstream)? Is there a Chromium issue link you can point to that I can follow up with? This is an incredibly annoying persistent basic issue.
Update in reply to @Mattches as I have reached the ānew user reply limitā in this thread. Thank you - everyone reading this thread, please chime in on that Chromium issue report. They are unable to reproduce this - and yet I see it every morning on two different newly booted system in Brave, Edge and Chrome at different frequencies.
Another non-inline update in response to @dalewvuk I tried opening dev tools this morning when I experienced the issue and it did nothing. In my case it did not automatically cause the page to refresh. I forced a refresh with dev tools open and still a blank page. I still had to close the browser then reopen it to get actual page data.
Seeing a very similar problem have found that opening Dev Tools triggers a reload and everything works properly after that. Can close Dev Tools once first page is properly rendered and all good until browser is closed and reopened.
This problem happens to me daily, on two separate PCs, I have the option ācontinue where you left offā on start up turned on, this means almost always after opening Brave the old tabs are just blank, and I lost all my work flow from the previous day, itās making Brave so difficult to use, been having this problem for the last 4 months.