Brave browser keeps crashing on Mac OS

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@thaitea

Please DISABLE ‘Brave News’.

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In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/security

  • DISABLE: Always use secure connections (HTTPS ONLY toggle switch)
  • DISABLE: Use secure DNS

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Clear DNS cache:

Using a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://net-internals/#dns

  • Click on: Clear host cache

Close idle sockets and Flush socket pools:

Go to: brave://net-internals/#socket

  • Click on: Close idle sockets
  • Click on: Flush socket pools

Exit / Quit Brave Browser.
RESTART your Mac.

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Notes re what are:

DNS cache:

Socket pool:

With pooling, instead of closing a connection after it is used, we can keep it idle while it waits to handle another request. This saves the resources required to create a new connection.

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TEST YOUR ISSUE.

IF not fixed, then proceed:

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Go to: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.40.107

Download the installer for your Mac’s architecture (M1 arm64 or Intel x64), to your Mac’s ‘Downloads’ folder.

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In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab Advanced:

  • Set: Time range:All time
  • Enable: Browsing history
  • Enable: Download history
  • Enable: Cookies and other site data (Signs you out of most sites)
  • Enable: Cached images and files
  • DISABLE: Passwords and other sign-in data (When Enabled DELETES PASSWORDS)
  • DISABLE: Autofill form data
  • DISABLE: Site and Shields Settings (When Enabled DELETES Shields Settings and RESTORES default: Shields UP for site-specific Shields [Lion icon] panel)
  • Enable: Hosted app data

Click on the ‘Clear data’ button.

(The ‘Clear data’ button also saves the selections.)

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Return to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab On exit:

  • Enable: Browsing history
  • Enable: Download history
  • DISABLE: Cookies and other site data (Signs you out of most sites)
  • Enable: Cached images and files
  • DISABLE: Passwords and other sign-in data (When Enabled DELETES PASSWORDS)
  • DISABLE: Autofill form data
  • DISABLE: Site and Shields Settings (When Enabled DELETES Shields Settings and RESTORES default: Shields UP for site-specific Shields [Lion icon] panel)
  • Enable: Hosted app data

Click on the ‘Save’ button.

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Exit / Quit Brave Browser.

Make a backup of your ‘BraveSoftware’ folder located at:

  • `/Users/username/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/

I suggest that you drag-copy that folder to an attached external drive - so your backup copy of the ‘BraveSoftware’ folder is outside of any Brave Browser installation path.

Locate the existing ‘Brave Browser.app’ at: /Applications/Brave Browser.app and drag that to the Trash.

RESTART your Mac.

Run the installer that you downloaded.

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TEST YOUR ISSUE.

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