Brave frequent random crashes

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Description of the issue:
I use Linux.
Brave (flatpak) crashes after last update as it seems. I’m getting a lot of errors like “Aw! Snap!” and every time I reload the page to continue using it.
Also 4 times it dumped core (https://pastebin.com/zj56B8Pc). Two times it completely froze my DE (GNOME 46.1). I also tried AUR version of Brave (brave-bin) with the same result.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

  1. Just open YouTube, start watching video (quality doesn’t matter) - can happen in 10 minutes or few hours.
  2. Seems I have same problem also with streaming music (e.g. YouTube Music).

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Aw! Snap! or dumping core.

Expected result:
Just play video and music in browser.

Reproduces how often:
It happens randomly, no particular system here. Can be few minutes or few hours.

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 (fully updated today)
Kernel: 6.8.9-arch1-1
DE: GNOME 46.1
Brave Version 1.65.126 Chromium: 124.0.6367.118 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
What I tried to do:

  1. Tried flatpak and AUR versions.
  2. Tried to turn off all the shields and privacy stuff in browser settings.
  3. Tried to clear cookies/cache with browser restart.
  4. Checked if I have ffmpeg and gstreamer installed and in case of codecs failure I reinstalled them both.
  5. Tried to disable all chrome extensions in browser.
  6. Checked my internet connection (I use wifi) stability and speed (0% packet loss when browser error appears). Restarted my router just in case.
  7. Checked browser console (F12) to see what happens there when error appears. Unfortunately I don’t know sh*t, so I didn’t found clues there.
  8. Tried to turn on/off graphics acceleration and memory saver in browser settings.

Can someone help me please? At least where I should searching for the cause of this? Or it is the browser problem? It worked pretty stable on last version as I remember.
Thanks!

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I have been experiencing this for the past few months on my Mac while playing or streaming music from nts.live, youtube, bandcamp without any useful error reporting. (Code: 5)

There seems to be a lot of people experiencing this but the issues get automatically closed. Very annoying.

Brave:
Version 1.65.126 Chromium: 124.0.6367.118 (Official Build) (arm64)

OS: Mac Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224)

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Yep. Same here. Also Linux user, also with Youtube and Twitter open, it’s crashing.

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Few months?! That’s pretty sad. It turns out that we don’t have very many chances that the problem will be fixed in the near future?

Did you tried other chrome-based browsers?

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no. It just happened again with 2 twitters open. 1 with video

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Ok, giving a quick update on my situation: it wasn’t browsers fault.

I spent couple days of investigating and I found out that issue was in GNOME extension, in particular AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support, link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/

I didn’t filled a bug report yet, I want to test stability for a little bit more. But for now in a past 24 hours all worked rock solid after disabling this extension.

Hope it helps someone.

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