And this is now happening every minute, making Brave totally unusable.
@Mattches this is the last screenshot I send. Please let me know if you need more.
I’m having the same issue, Macbook M1 Sonoma. I reset everything on Brave and still the spinning refresh icon. Can’t go to any websites or log in to anything. I’m in Firefox now, I guess I’ll have to stay in Firefox. Fortunately I can export bookmarks from Brave to Firefox.
@migsyboy,
Can you please open the macOS Terminal and use the following command:
open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --profile-directory="newprofiletest"
This will create and launch a new profile for you. Please use it for a while normally (just don’t install any extensions) and test to see if you encounter the same issue. @reallyrandy if you’re willing to try this as well that would be very helpful.
Will do. In the meantime, does what I sent you help you analyse what the issue might be?
Thank you.
Not exactly — what we really would need to see is the browser task manager so we can see the individual processes running and what/how many resources it is consuming.
I tried that and had the same problem with the new profile. It won’t log in to my gmail, won’t open a link, nothing. All I get is the spinning refresh icon.
I’m on Windows now and it works but not on the Mac. But I need a browser I can use on Win, Mac and Linux and right now that’s only Firefox.
This is on Macbook Air M2; 14.1
Top (Just Brave Beta, no extensions)
Bottom (Brave Beta and Nightly, no extensions on either)
HW acceleration = Enabled on both.
Unless there is other applications causing cpu usage issues, it seems fine so far.
Sorry @fanboynz but it’s still not ok.
Hi @Mattches , I created a new blank profile, with no extensions or anything.
I just got a beachball:
I noticed that just before (and during) beachballing, the browser was going nuts on the Email textbox on Shopify’s admin login page. Like the textbox to enter the email address started going in and out of focus super fast.
Also, if it’s relevant, in addition to all the details I gave of my setup, I am also using an external monitor, connected via HDMI using a usbc hub.
Hope this helps.
Not trying to put pressure at all, but unfortunately I can’t work with a browser that keeps beachballing on me. Would you mind please telling me if you see something worth spending time looking at it, so if you see everything is ok and not worth looking at it, I will just move to a new browser? I love the filtering capabilities of Brave, but I can’t work like this unfortunately.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Memory and CPU usage seems under control. It is a few sites from the screenshot, Close each tab until it’s fixed. see if its a specific site causing it.
Would be interested in which website tab is cause the issue.
(see previous response). Also Getswap Bubble Editor seems to be causing issues?
When Brave starts beachballing, I cannot close any tab.
restart Brave, Then test without Getswap
Getswap is my work, I cannot spend the whole day without working just to test this unfortunately. There are other users reporting the same beachballing issues, and they don’t use Getswap. It might be Getswap in my case (sometimes, because in the first image I posted today Getwap is not doing anything weird, but Brave beachballed anyways), but the other users will be having issues with other sites.
Was more of a test, rather than “stop Getswap permanently”. If there a website causing issues, trying to figure out the issue. Could also test in Brave Beta/Nightly.
More beachballing.
Is there anything else I can send you that will help you diagnose what the problem is?
When beachballing happens, some other tabs are like “flashing” (not sure if it’s the right term though)
is HW acceleration enabled in brave://settings/system ?