Brave Shields icon doesn't show control panel

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Description of the issue: When clicking the Brave Shields icon next to adress bar, the control panel doesnt’t show/activate
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Click on the Brave Shields icon next to adress bar to access controls of Shields
  2. Controls don’t appear

Expected result: After clicking on the icon of Brave Shields, control panel with Shields settings appers.

Brave Version: Brave 1.79.118 (Official build) unknown (64bit)
Chromium: 137.0.7151.61

Additional Information: System OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Cinnamon)
Snímek obrazovky pořízený 2025-06-02 15-32-43

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Thanks for reporting. Can you share a screenshot of what you do see when clicking on Shields?

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When I click the icon it just displays empty circle. Additionally I found out that this happens only once, then the icon doesn’t react at all. After closing and opening Brave or after opening new window it only displays the circle again, then doesnt’t react at all again.

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Thanks for sending. Have reported to the team.

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Does it make any difference if you install the xcompmgr package?

apt install xcompmgr

(Make sure you restart Brave afterwards.)

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Tried it and result is the same. If it helps the Brave is installed through Flatpack (Flathub)

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Does it work any differently if you use our native packages instead?

See the one-line install script at https://brave.com/linux/.

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If it helps. I’ve been having the same problem since yesterday on the windows version.
Brave 1.79.118 (Oficiální sestavení) (64bitový)
Chromium: 137.0.7151.61

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This has been happening for 5 days to me as well.

Brave 1.79.119 (Oficiální sestavení) (64bitový)

Chromium: 137.0.7151.68

It makes Brave close to unusable. Many websites cant be used, when you cant disable shields on them.

I had to search for this discussion for quite a while and almost have given up. I am sure theres tons of people encountering this.

This is actually making people use other browsers.

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The result is the same

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Older version 137 .1.79.114 (windows) is working well, but no way to disable an automatic update

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Having the exact same issue for about a week on all of my devices (PC and laptop). Reinstalling did not fix the issue on either

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I have the same issue for about a week on my windows pc and laptop :frowning:

Brave 1.79.119 (Oficiální sestavení) (64bitový)]

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Same result, brave 1.79.119 64-bit, Windows, Czech locale and filters.

After installing older version - e.g. from:

BraveBrowserStandaloneSetup.exe

and disabling auto update by commandline options:
–disable-component-update --simulate-outdated-no-au=“úterý 31. prosince 2099 23:59:59”

  • it seems to be OK.
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It seems to happen in Czech
‐–lang=cs

brave://brave-shields.top-chrome/
Nothing is displayed
I tried 20 other languages ​​and they are displayed

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Hello,
I’m experiencing this as well and it seems this is really caused by czech language.
As I noticed that this is not happening on my work laptop and is happening on my personal laptop where my browser is in Czech by default.
I tried now switching the Brave language on my work laptop from english to czech and the Brave Shields is not working, so it’s really just issue with czech language apparently.

So the easy workaround is just switching to english for some time until this gets fixed.
Best regards,
Siki

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Oh my God this actually worked, never would have figured it out myself. Thank you so much!

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I confirm. If I switch Brave to English, it works fine again.

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I’m having the same issue with the Bravu shields. The menu simply doesn’t work on PC or Mac, but everything runs fine on Android. I’m using the latest version of the app, and my language is set to Czech.

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Hi,
you have to change it to english, not sure if you understood my workaround incorrectly.
Settings>>languages>>3 dots next to english>>display brave in this language.
If you don’t see the english, you can simply add it by “add languages button”.
If the switching to english doesn’t really switch it for you, please try switching back to czech and then back to english, you should see the restart button next to english and click it :slight_smile:

Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Siki