Brave browser has started locking up for 1-2 minutes about every 10 minutes. Doesnt seem to be any particular website causing the issue.
This has been happening for 3 days on my PC and started yesterday on my macbook
I havent been able to induce the lock up, I thought it might be youtube or reddit but even keeping them closed it will happen
I have been closing other applications on the PC and mac, generally the mac only has brave open so should be more reliable than the PC but same issue.
I thought it could be Nvidia drivers as I have been getting weird glitches visually on youtube.
I have tried deleting all cookies, history, caches. I tried a different profile on the mac as I have to anyway to resign into youtube. Similar issue of freezing on new profile on mac but havent tried on PC yet
Expected result:
Is this a known issue in the latest build?
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Win 10 enterprise LTSC
Version 1809
build 17763.7136
Version 1.78.94 Chromium: 136.0.7103.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Macos big sur
11.7.10
Version 1.78.94 Chromium: 136.0.7103.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)
](https://brave.com/latest/)
Additional Information:
@Rangott thanks for reporting. Just to confirm does this happen on other browsers as well, or only with Brave?
It was even worse this morning before work. Ill try firefox tonight and see. I use chrome for a couple websites that dont work on Brave. I try to avoid using it otherwise.
Just thought it was weird it happens on both PC and mac, could it be some weird network issue?
I’ve also been having a problem with frequent (every few mins of browser use, assorted websites) Brave “freezes” (usually lasting several seconds, non-responsive window & title bar, “high” power/CPU usage per TaskManager; oddly YouTube audio & video usually continues while the window is otherwise frozen) which clearly started with Brave’s May 1, 2025 update. And continued with the May 7th update. I’ll likely keep updating and trying Brave, hoping the issue is resolved.
I’ve had to switch to another browser, such as Chrome (using the identical Chromium Version 136.0.7103.93 (Official Build) (64-bit) to Brave, as of May 11), or Edge (using its latest 136.0.3240.64 (Official build) (64-bit)) or Firefox, since Brave’s momentary freezes are too long and to frequent to live with.
I’ve tried uninstalling several Extensions and disabling every one of the remaining ones in Brave. I’ve tried disabling “Use graphics acceleration when available” (freezes either way). I’ve tried reinstalling Brave. I’ve tried deleting all Brave’s browser history & cached data. No diff/improvement with any of those.
I have Brave’s “Automatically send diagnostic reports” enabled, but I don’t know what telemetry Brave’s authors are seeing when I occasionally use (with freezes) then abandon it.
I’m running on a Win10 Pro PC 2009 19045.5737, with 64G of RAM. I haven’t made the leap to Win11 yet, maybe before the end of the year.
I have the same version of Brave running on another Win11 PC where it’s not exhibiting the freezes.
I am running a RAMDisk where I redirect browser temp files (same setup for for several years, for Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, …)