Browser tabs are crashing on Raspberry Pi 5

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Description of the issue:
With recent updates (starting with 1.73.89) on Linux arm64 inactive tabs are crashing in seconds, active ones are crashing in minutes randomly in normal and private browsing even in settings, with and without extensions, or after cache deletion, restart of the browser or restart of computer.

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

  1. Get a raspberry pi 5
  2. Install Brave
  3. Start browser
  4. Open a couple of tabs
  5. Wait a bit

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

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Expected result:
The browser to work.

Reproduces how often:
Everytime.

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Brave: Version 1.73.91 Chromium: 131.0.6778.85 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS: Linux rpi-desktop 6.6.51+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.51-1+rpt3 (2024-10-08) aarch64 GNU/Linux

Additional Information:

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Maybe something in . . .

Was supposed to be fixed in Brave Browser update:

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.71.121”

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Extra notes:

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Interesting article about memory leaks, unfortunately this happens even on the settings page, so I’d assume this is something which would pop up at one point for the dev team.
All the other methods mentioned on Google support have been tried and failed, unfortunately even a new install produces the same error.

But the Github package seems to do the trick, nice catch. Mostly I use the official repo updates so this was something I completely overlooked. Thanks for pointing me to the right direction!

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If I can get this in before the window crashes again, I’m wagering fixing this isn’t a priority. Shame. Also, sending us to a chrome help page where it is suggested we download chrome seems counter intuitive.

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@kodermike

Often, there are info, material, and methods to learn.

If the preceding info and methods therein, that you carefully followed, did not solve your issue, then you might try:

Usually, in a Linux OS command line, you can start Brave Browser with one of the following commands:

brave -n --args --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu

or

brave-browser -n --args --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to: “brave://version”

Scroll down to “Command line”

The beginnings of that command line character string, will indicate which of the above commands, to use.

With Brave Browser running, in a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://flags

Click the “Reset all” button.

Perform backup procedures for bookmarks, passwords, etc. as previously mentioned.

Clear caches, cookies . . . as previously mentioned.

Next, disable all extensions that you may have installed. (I would also remove them.)

Quit Brave Browser. Try a normal start procedure for Brave Browser.

If failing - that is, if you are still getting the Aw Snap error - then quit. Wait a moment. Start Brave Browser from the command line, again; and:

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://settings/reset

and reset the Brave Browser settings.

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