Description of the issue:
Lately, I’ve been experiencing many issues at different instances where tabs suddenly freeze completely or go black alltogether. This happens regardless if it is the tab I am currently running (in this case it does not go blank but usually freezes, as if the site I am on suddenly becomes an image), or if it is a dormant tab I go back to, or even when I open a new tab and try to access a URL on it. Two example images below:
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
This happens irregularly, so it may be that for a couple of days all goes well and suddenly the behaviour starts again.
I’ve already tried:
- Removing all of the extensions
- Reinstalling Brave
- Disabling Brave shield for almost every site (pretty much defeating the purpose of using Brave)
- Removing all historical cache
The result is always the same, works for a while and after some time it happens again.
As you can see on the screenshot below, it is happening only with the Bitwarden extension activated, shields down, a recently reinstalled brave and shields down.
I am at a point where not sure how to progress.
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Expected result:
Normal behaviour of tabs
Reproduces how often:
Irregularly, hard to say but 1 very week or every 2 weeks at most
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
MacOS Sequoia 15.5, Apple M1 Pro, Brave Version 1.78.102 Chromium: 136.0.7103.113 (Official Build) (arm64) ---- I see there is an update now, but I tend to have it up to date.
Additional Information:
Something weird is that when the tab that I am working on suddenly freezes and seems to become like a static image, it would seem that certain things re still happening behind. For example, I am navigating Linkedin, the tab frozes but if I click around stuff I see the navbar changing as if opening the links or actions I am clicking on.