Brave Crashes constantly

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I suddenly started having the same problem with Brave crashing to desktop suddenly after less than a minute. I sent the crash reports.

Have downloaded the Beta version and that seems to be holding up for now.

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I thought I found a solution - it only worked one day: I deleted

~Library/Application Support/brave

and then imported a bookmark file. This folder didn’t reappear again, I wonder why it was here in the first place. I upload a screenshot of its content.

Still not sure what was going on.

Have to point out once again: Brave is absolutely marvelous. Never use anything else again. Thank you!

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EDIT: Did only work for one day. Now it is crashing again

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Same thing here except on windows 10. I loved the options of brave but it constantly crashes. I tried VPNs, tried changing options outside of the application, I tried exceptions in anti virus and fire walls, etc. Really disappointed in lack of support for this issue.

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I don’t know what version of Brave you’re using. The Brave app support folder on my Mac is:

~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware

not

~/Library/Application Support/brave

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right. I also deleted

~/Library/Application Support/ BraveSoftware

same effect. Worked for a few times, then crashed again. Not starting up again.

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Same here, since some weeks Brave started crashing and there is no way to make it work.
Sadly I return to Chrome. :frowning:

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Edit:

When I delete

~/Library/Application Support/ BraveSoftware

Brave starts up. After a time or a few times starting brave up it crashes again. Maybe this helps.

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Same here directly following the latest Brave update ; MacBook Pro with 10.13.6
And my Pages/Tabs were lost.

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Brave crashes immediately here too. Brave fanboy for the past 6+ months, I have converted a lot of Firefox friends.

On Mac Pro 5,1 OS 10.13.6

Currently concerned about losing all of my bookmarks. Just zipped up and copied my old version per this thread’s advice. Real bummer.

Would prefer a legacy version from an official channel. All of the old Mac OS builds I see currently are hosted by 3rd parties – Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks to all reading & posting about this “Mac Showstopper”

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Hello everyone – again,

There also seems to be a mix of people who are experiencing normal crashes in the browser, but then there are also some of you who seem to have a disappearing ~BraveSoftware/Brave-browser diretory.

For the users who are experiencing “normal” crashes, there are a couple quick fixes everyone might try – but if the browser is closing/crashing before you’re able to navigate to the Settings to change them, you may also try launching Brave from the terminal with the following commands:

  • With Hardware Acceleration disabled:
    Open the Terminal and type the command
    open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-gpu
  • With Sync disabled (if it was ever enabled):
    Open the Terminal and type the command
    open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-brave-sync

For those of your who are encountering the “disappearing” Brave directory, I’d like to once again urge everyone to turn on automatic crash reporting or, visit brave://crashes and use the Send now link to send them to our devs for review.

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@Mattches Using the Sync disable command causes a crash with my unSynced Brave 1.2.42 Chromium: 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit) on macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G1012). It seems to screw up the Session storage, too, because the next launch is screwed up and has to be Force Quit, then relaunched, at which point the application opens but no window is opened, the History menu is unpopulated, but using File->New Window and going to Bookmarks->Show full history you get the History. It happens every time. I saved and uploaded one of the crash reports if that will help.

I discovered this when testing two AppleScript Applications for these commands. Disable GPU is fine, but Disable Sync barfs, so tested in Terminal with same result.

Since I think it’s a problem only because I didn’t have Sync on in the first place, for those who don’t like command line, I’m uploading the AS Apps to a share point that you can stick in your dock. If you’re comfortable creating your own in Script Editor, go right ahead using the (ridiculously simple once you see it) code below.

Brave No GPU uses:
do shell script "open -a '/Applications/Brave Browser.app' --args --disable-gpu"

tell application "Brave Browser" to activate

Brave No Sync uses:
do shell script "open -a '/Applications/Brave Browser.app' --args --disable-brave-sync"

tell application "Brave Browser" to activate

CAUTION: Brave No Sync appears to crash Brave 1.2.42 if Sync isn’t already on.

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I contacted you on the same day this thread was opened, which I just now found.

Mac 10.15.2
The crashing behaves like in May 2019.
Conversation & suggestions here: Brave Crashes as soon as opened on Mac OS

As I recall it, you told me in another thread that the cause was on Brave’s end which was eventually fixed.

Given that… I have once again repeatedly wiped Brave, reinstalled, restarted and dropped my saved copies of Brave-Browser and Default folders back into ~/Library/Application Support.

Crashes continue and unfortunately I wound up deleting my most recent Brave-Browser and Default folders which forced me to use copies made last October. With my stomach now turning inside out…I’ve lost months worth of bookmarked research I use for work, not to mention the personal bookmarks.

That being said, I tried opening Brave with Terminal with no joy.
From what I can find, Mac OS has no “Hardware Acceleration” also can’t disable Sync since Brave crashes immediately.

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Hi everyone.

I am not sure if I have the same issue or whether a new thread is required.

The problem started months ago where, on start up, Brave would start blinking and I could position the curser over the three menu bars icon, the menu displays ok and click on open another window in tor. The new window would open normally and the original window stopped blinking. All good.

Now blinking continues and opening a new window in the above manner either continues to blinking or presents with a nice white screen. Happens on both displays 1 and 2. I have tried Task Manager under More tools option and a Task Manager window opens but still blinks and only shows a white screen. Cannot access other settings - setting page blinks with a white screen.

Uninstall and reinstalled Brave brower, no change. Always happens. I am now not able to use Brave at all

Ran a dxdiag no errors.

Tried CONTROL + SHIFT + WIN + B to reset the graphics adaptor. No change.

Blinking does not occur in Chrome or Opera browsers.

Brave version is 79.1.1.23. Unable to get the version from the browser itself.

…
Edited: Through the flashing I see a message top left corner “failed to find article”.

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I believe it’s been EIGHT days since any Brave staff responded with any ideas (thank you @Mattches ). I just started using Brave about four months ago, and added a lot of bookmarks for research, like @Adventureland .
Is someone from Brave working on this? Seems like a widespread, catastrophic issue. . .

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I tried the scripts (Terminal) and it is kind of a pattern: It works, everything is fine and after some days it crashes again.

Don’t know what to do …

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I hate to say it, but I’m leaving Brave, for now.

This is a showstopper bug, IMHO.

In my travels, as a beta tester for many apps, we refer to this “disappearing” behavior as a “poof” as in “Brave poofed”.

I will keep an eye on this forum to see if a non-problematic build is posted. The Epic browser is currently working well for me. All the best to everybody, as you were! :slight_smile:

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Agree. Totally unusable for me. Disappointed there seems to be no response. Now to find an alternative browser

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@Adventureland,
Hardware Acceleration is located in the System section of the browser settings. I apologize if I was unclear. Lets relook at my previous post:

  • With Hardware Acceleration disabled:
    Open the Terminal and type the command
open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-gpu ```
  • With Sync disabled (if it was ever enabled):
    Open the Terminal and type the command
open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-brave-sync

In the above instructions, I was referring to what you would enter into the Terminal that you can use to launch the browser with specific settings changed (in this case, Hardware Acceleration and Sync disabled). In the first command

open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-gpu ```

Will launch the browser with HWA disabled, which would help us rule out whether o r not that’s the issue to begin with.

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Thanks for the reply.
Is there another way to disable Hardware Acceleration and ‘Sync’ without opening the Brave browser? Since when I do launch Brave, it crashes within a second… Leaving me no time to alter these settings.

Also, would there be a way to grab my current bookmarks outside of the usual way of downloading them while Brave is open?

Thanks in advance.

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Try the following:

  1. On your macOS, open your Terminal application:
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  2. In the terminal, enter the [exact] command:
    open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-gpu

This should launch the browser. If it launches and closes immediately as if you’d launched from the icon normally, then we know the issue isn’t related to HWA. You can repeat this same process with the open -a "Brave-browser.app" --args --disable-brave-sync command.

Let me know what you find out.