when I open a new window in the browser and go to youtube it crashes , it has happened with a few other sites as well, need help figuring this out, please advise
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Current known issue. See:
ok so how do I get the newer brave browser on my macbook? I upated the app on my phone, and how can I disable the shield for youtube if it crashes the second I try to get into it???
That’s mentioned in that linked post. I’ll just copy/paste here:
My attempt at an aggregate solution post.
This is affecting ALL OSs with older Brave browser versions. Win 7/8.1 are hard-locked to a certain version, which this impacts the most.
Webinstaller doesn’t support older OSs. The version you might be looking for is this one:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.46.134
Unfortunately you’ll need to disable shields and use a separate adblocker extension like uBlock Origin.
- Go to brave://settings/shields
- Trackers & ads blocking → disable this
- Download uBlock Origin to restore ad blocking
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37243#issuecomment-2033349720
- Disable (globally) sheilds via brave://settings/shields. “Ads & trackers”
- Install uBlock Origin via https://chromewebstore.google.com/
- From uBlock Origin enable
Fanboy AnnoyancesorEasylist Cookie lists, for feature parity with Brave.
If youtube/google (and other sites that implement something google uses that I’m currently not sure about) DOESN’T WORK with shields off, then continue reading.
Note that this still may not work and still cause it to crash. Even being offline and visiting the unloadable site may still crash. If you can manage it, try to install uBlock Origin then:
- Click uBlock icon
- Click the gears icon
- Click the My Filters tab
- Add the following two new lines in the large text box:
youtube.com
ytimg.com
- Click Apply Changes
This should prevent any and all youtube links from loading immediately, and can prevent the insta-crash. This isn’t fool-proof and anyone is welcome to suggest other lines to add to this to prevent crashing.
Taking yourself offline and attempting to visit the site to turn off the shields MIGHT work, if it doesn’t insta-crash. Then you can click proceed on the uBlock page and try loading the page. If it still crashes:
- Click uBlock icon
- Click the gears icon
- Click the Settings tab
- Click the
Back up to file…button and save the file
From there, you can try renaming the following folder
C:\Users\(User)\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data
Rename it like _User Data, so you keep all your old data intact. Then try to open Brave again. You’ll need to reinstall uBlock Origin, then repeat the last set of instructions but on step 4 you’ll click Restore from file… this time. Once that’s done, disable shields like earlier. Then you can try again to visit youtube OFFLINE to see if the shields cause it to insta-crash. If it doesn’t, disable the shields for the site. Then go online and try to load. If it crashes, you’ll need to use a different browser dedicated to using youtube/google for now. There’s alternate browsers available like Opera/OperaGX and Firefox (which I know are supported by uBlock Origin), and uBO’s page is here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
If you’re much more privacy-oriented, I’ll quote my friend:
-Supermium (https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases/tag/v122-hf) since it’s chromium based, but you need to set a flag to get more privacy oriented browsing since the guy hasn’t put all the patches in by default yet.
-Librewolf (https://librewolf.net/installation/) but that’s Firefox based. Librewolf is also more privacy oriented. But it also disables a lot of features by default to enforce that privacy.
Honestly I can’t recommend either over the other. They both have their pros and cons. Supermium works, but it’s also just Chrome made for older Windows versions with extra flags for more privacy.
I didn’t verify, but I believe those two are still supported by uBO since they’re forks of Chromium and Firefox (respectively).
To restore your old Brave profile with everything intact, just delete User Data and rename the _User Data folder back to the old name. You’ll need to avoid youtube and google entirely, just in case. But other sites should still work as long as you leave those lines in uBlock Origin you added earlier.
For MOBILE USERS: I haven’t seen any solution other then updating if you can. I apologize for not having an answer available.
I was able to update my brave browser and seems to be working better now, thanks for the help
No problem. Feel free to mark my post as the solution so the thread can be soft-closed (not marked as a current problem to be looked into, and a staff member can lock it from further replies).