Certain websites no longer working after PC crashes

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Recently when opening some games in fullscreen my PC was forcibly shutting itself down, this happened about 5 times in one day and when I opened Brave after that, some websites won’t work anymore when before they did.

For example, twitter (x) no longer lets me log-in, and takes me to an error page

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Roblox just goes to a white page
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And streaming services just don’t work, the video player loads indefinitely.

Youtube had this issue also, but I have cleared my cache and that seems to have fixed it, however I did also delete site data on twitter and it didn’t make any difference. Thoughts?

Version 1.73.97

Additional note: I did open twitter on a private window and it did open successfully.

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BB = Brave Browser

Be Prepared for Testing

As soon as you can; and then, after BB is running well, create an additional System Restore Point.

Clear cookies, cache, history, etc.

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://settings/clearBrowserData

Select the Advanced tab

Set Time range to “All time”

ENABLE everything except:

  • Passwords and other sign-in data

(Myself, I would NOT make that exception)
(because I would have a backup prepared.)
(In other words, be prepared.)

Click on the “Clear data” button

Sometimes, the following two steps, are sufficient to get Brave Browser running properly.

With BB not running, delete the ‘Caches’ folder, and delete the ‘Cookies’ file.

Caches (folder):

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\

Cookies (file):

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cookies

The Brave Browser executable, brave.exe, is located in one of:

64 architecture

  • "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

x86 architecture

  • "C:\Program Files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe""

Change the path within the Brave Browser shortcut on your computer’s Desktop, to include switches that are intended to:

  • start up Brave Browser, showing a New Private Window
  • disable all experiments at brave://flags
  • disable extensions
  • disable GPU ie disable Hardware Acceleration
  • enable leak detection and if that failure occurs, then crash the browser (–enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure are a combo)
  • produce error/log output to a file named ‘brave_console_out.txt’ on the Windows OS Desktop

For example:

64 architecture (change the path to):

"C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\brave_console_out.txt

x86 architecture (note the switches to add):

"C:\Program Files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\brave_console_out.txt

Notice that the existing path, BEFORE the additions, is enclosed by double-quote marks. And, everything added to the existing path, is located after the existing path.

Start Brave Browser via the Brave Browser shortcut.

IF Brave Browser keeps running . . .

THEN TEST your issue: Problems with Full Screen

When you think appropriate, restore the Brave Browser shortcut . . .

64 architecture

  • "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

x86 architecture

  • "C:\Program Files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"

PS. You might have a Graphics Acceleration (aka Hardware Acceleration) problem . . . so, locate the Graphics / Hardware Acceleration switch in your Brave Browser settings, and turn it OFF.

Then see how the Full Screen is performing.

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That worked! Thank you so much!

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