Element rendering failures make Brave v1.79.119 unusable


Description of the issue:
Immediately after upgrading the Brave desktop browser to v1.79.119 on macOS (15.5 (24F74) Sequoia), page element rendering failures are making the browser unusable. The issue is persistent and manifests itself in both regular and private tabs. This, for example, is google calendar:

How can this issue be reproduced?
Upgrade to Brave desktop on the latest macOS

Expected result:
Normal rendering of sites and web apps.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
v1.79.119

Additional Information:
Upon request.

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Can confirm same result on Windows 10 (Build 19045.5917).

How it happens completely depends on the tab I’m using and seems random, sometimes I simply open a completely new tab and it happens, sometimes if I reload a suspended tab it will occur as well, and sometimes it even happens when switching tabs.

Best fix i found, at the very least on my end, is to close the tab and re-open it.

Compare with one or more of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi? Each being up to date and using the same version of Chromium used by your copy of Brave Browser.

Latest Chrome (Version 137.0.7151.69 (Official Build) (arm64)) is running fine on the same machine. I had to switch to using it because Brave isn’t rendering any document (or its own UI) well anymore.

Case in point: I wish I could see the full versioning info in Brave, but I get this instead:

@rlcreator

In a Brave Browser New Window:

brave://version

In order to help you get the general idea of that type of URL address (brave://crashes), in another Brave Browser New Window’s URL address field, enter:

  • brave://chrome-urls/#internals

You will see a long list of the brave:// . . . -type URL addresses used by Brave Browser.

notbook upgrade here

@rlcreator @cleanclouds does disabling hardware acceleration resolve? cc @Mattches for tracking as well.

Same issue, even when going to About - it won’t render that properly either. Entire top half is black, have to highlight text to make it show (per screenshot):

EDIT, even more wackiness when trying to check for updates:

same here…
disabling hardware acceleration solved it!!
but now everything is slow…