I create this topic to report an issue.
I installed the latest version of Brave (1.79.118) this morning. When I typed in the search bar, no character appeared, but I was able to paste an URL. Also, I couldn’t type in any textbox.
Update: Ironically, the only combination that I can use is Ctrl + T, which opens a new tab.
I have been using Brave on Debian 12 KDE Plasma 5.27.5. I created this topic using Firefox.
Same here.
Debian GNU/Linux 12 Raspbian Bookworm
$ grep " upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log | grep “$(date +%Y-%m-%d)”
2025-05-30 07:58:37 upgrade systemd-timesyncd:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:37 upgrade libpam-systemd:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:37 upgrade systemd:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:38 upgrade libsystemd-shared:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:38 upgrade libsystemd0:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:39 upgrade systemd-sysv:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:39 upgrade udev:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:39 upgrade libudev1:arm64 252.36-1~deb12u1 252.38-1~deb12u1
2025-05-30 07:58:39 upgrade brave-browser:arm64 1.78.102 1.79.118
2025-05-30 07:58:47 upgrade libavif15:arm64 0.11.1-1 0.11.1-1+deb12u1
I’ve suspected that a prior Chromium update somehow impacts a subsequent Brave update. I experienced this before and it was many months before I was able to release an update “hold” on Brave. See: “Aw snap error code 5 after install of Brave version 1.73.89 on Raspberry Pi5”
$ grep " upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log | grep “$(date +%Y-%m)”|grep chromium
2025-05-07 11:06:29 upgrade rpi-chromium-mods:arm64 20250415 20250506
2025-05-08 08:18:51 upgrade chromium-l10n:all 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt2 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3
2025-05-08 08:18:52 upgrade chromium:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt2 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3
2025-05-08 08:18:54 upgrade chromium-common:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt2 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3
2025-05-08 08:18:54 upgrade chromium-sandbox:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt2 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3
2025-05-08 08:18:54 upgrade chromium-browser:all 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt2 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3
2025-05-13 08:06:04 upgrade chromium-l10n:all 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-13 08:06:04 upgrade chromium:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-13 08:06:06 upgrade chromium-common:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-13 08:06:07 upgrade chromium-sandbox:arm64 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-13 08:06:07 upgrade chromium-browser:all 1:135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1+rpt3 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-20 06:45:08 upgrade chromium-l10n:all 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1 1:136.0.7103.113-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-20 06:45:09 upgrade chromium:arm64 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1 1:136.0.7103.113-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-20 06:45:11 upgrade chromium-common:arm64 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1 1:136.0.7103.113-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-20 06:45:11 upgrade chromium-sandbox:arm64 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1 1:136.0.7103.113-1~deb12u1+rpt1
2025-05-20 06:45:11 upgrade chromium-browser:all 1:136.0.7103.92-1~deb12u1+rpt1 1:136.0.7103.113-1~deb12u1+rpt1
Update: If I activate the henkan 「変換」 I am able to create input although the final Enter key action does not work. Moreover, input via henkan on Chromium browser Version 136.0.7103.113 (Official Build) built on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (64-bit) now does not work although roman character input does (obviously, that’s how I am creating this). I’m leaning towards a Chrome engine update as the culprit.
Same problem here.
Brave 1.79.119
Debian 12 bookworm
Interestingly, when starting brave with firejail with the --nodbus option, keyboard input then works.
Could the issue be related to dbus in a way?
Here’s my workaround launch script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/firejail --nodbus brave-browser
same problem here with me
Same issue here, but only when DaVinci Resolve Studio is fully started, and only for the first 5 minutes or so.
When first starting Resolve, the Project Manager window opens. At this point, Brave still receives keyboard input.
After selecting a project, Resolve fully starts. At this point Brave can no longer receive keyboard input, not even in the address bar.
What’s weird is that for a few minutes, every time I press the Enter key on the keyboard, the following page opens in Brave: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training
After about 5 minutes or so, this enter behaviour stops and Brave receives keyboard input just fine
For those 5 minutes, this even takes focus away from LibreWolf. I can barely write this message in LibreWolf because Brave keeps opening that /training page every time I hit Enter. So weird.
I’m running Brave on Garuda Linux “Broadwing”, Mokka edition with KDE and Wayland.
This distro is based on Arch.
System:
Kernel: 6.15.4-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1 clocksource: tsc
avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=28bd6bff-8598-41ce-bec6-ae24465d3bca rw rootflags=subvol=@
vt.default_red=30,243,166,249,137,245,148,186,88,243,166,249,137,245,148,166
vt.default_grn=30,139,227,226,180,194,226,194,91,139,227,226,180,194,226,173
vt.default_blu=46,168,161,175,250,231,213,222,112,168,161,175,250,231,213,200 quiet
nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.luks.uuid=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
rd.luks.key=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185=/.docs/2025.jpg:UUID=C676-0984
rd.luks.options=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185=keyfile-timeout=10s
rd.luks.uuid=eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478 loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.2 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.15.0 wm: kwin_wayland
with: krunner vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ZenBook Pro Duo UX582HS_UX582HS v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX582HS v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: UX582HS.303 date: 04/21/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 92.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 92.6/92.6 Wh (100.0%) volts: 15.9 min: 15.9
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: not charging cycles: 11
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i9-11900H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11
level: v4 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x56
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1815 min/max: 800/4900:4800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave
cores: 1: 1815 2: 1815 3: 1815 4: 1815 5: 1815 6: 1815 7: 1815 8: 1815 9: 1815 10: 1815 11: 1815
12: 1815 13: 1815 14: 1815 15: 1815 16: 1815 bogomips: 79872
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: DP-1,DP-3,eDP-1
empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile / Max-Q 8GB/16GB] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 575.64.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current
(as of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:249c
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-9:5 chip-ID: 13d3:56eb class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau,vesa alternate: fbdev,intel,nv dri: iris
gpu: i915 d-rect: 3840x5420 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,top model: ASUS PA279 serial: <filter> built: 2022 res:
mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60 scale: 150% (1.5) to: 2560x1440 dpi: 163 gamma: 1.2
size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: bottom model: BOE Display 0x085f built: 2021 res: mode: 3840x1100 hz: 60
scale: 150% (1.5) to: 2560x733 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x99mm (13.54x3.9")
diag: 358mm (14.1") modes: max: 3840x1100 min: 1920x550
Monitor-3: eDP-1 pos: middle model: Samsung 0x415f built: 2019 res: mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60
scale: 200% (2) to: 1920x1080 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 3840x2160
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 2 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.03 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 memory: 7.81 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 11 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel UHD Graphics (TGL
GT1) driver: mesa intel v: 25.1.4-arch1.2 device-ID: 8086:9a60 surfaces: N/A device: 1
type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 575.64.03
device-ID: 10de:249c surfaces: N/A device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.6 256 bits)
driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.1.4-arch1.2 (LLVM 20.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor
gpu: gputop, intel_gpu_top, lsgpu, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.15.4-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN driver: r8152 type: USB rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 4-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8156 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enp0s20f0u1 state: up speed: 2500 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: N/A
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A
bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 539.58 GiB (29.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%) used: 81.75 GiB (19.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 776 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%) used: 81.75 GiB (19.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%) used: 81.75 GiB (19.9%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%) used: 81.75 GiB (19.9%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.14 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 31.03 GiB used: 429.6 MiB (1.4%) priority: 100 comp: zstd
avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 75.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.03 GiB used: 18.58 GiB (59.9%)
Processes: 456 Power: uptime: 2h 7m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle avail: deep
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 12.36 GiB
services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: 1677 pm: pacman pkgs: 1670 libs: 424 tools: octopi,paru,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 7
Compilers: clang: 20.1.7 gcc: 15.1.1 alt: 14 Client: Unknown Client: electron inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.3-1):
System install date: 2025-06-26
Last full system update: 2025-07-06
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
Failed units: afc.service
Replying to myself because I found the solution, and I wanted to also post it just in case someone else is experiencing this.
The issue was that I was running Brave with XWayland, I was starting it like this:
#!/bin/bash
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
export MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1
export VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
export GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
export GDK_BACKEND=x11
/opt/brave-bin/brave \
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,UseOzonePlatform \
--ozone-platform=x11 \
--ignore-gpu-blocklist \
--enable-zero-copy \
--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder \
"$@" &
To fix the issue, I created a new .desktop file by copying the original Brave desktop file, changing the name to Brave(Wayland) and then the Exec line to this:
Exec=env LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland GDK_BACKEND=wayland GTK_IM_MODULE=wayland QT_IM_MODULE=wayland XMODIFIERS= /opt/brave-bin/brave --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations,VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-zero-copy --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder %U
I was running it with XWayland because I was trying to find a way in which hardware acceleration actually works for video decoding.
To be able to actually watch youtube 4k videos without dropping lots of frames, I had to come up with this solution that opens the current youtube video in MPV rather than playing it on the page: https://github.com/dariusmihai/userscript-youtube-play-in-mpv
I’m on a laptop with i9-11900H, 32Gb RAM and RTX3080.