Brave Frequently Crashing on MacOS Monterey: How can this issue be reproduced?
Start Brave
Browse the web for a while.
Kaboom! Without the usual Mac crash dialog/report coming up.
Expected result:
Browsing the web sans crashes.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.35.100 Chromium: 98.0.4758.87 (Official Build) (arm64)
Additional Information:
This has been happening for about 4 days now. The crashes happen usually several hours apart, about 3/day. I haven’t detected any pattern or cause. I thought some extension was the likely culprit, so I created a new plain-vanilla profile with no extensions. Also with no changes to default preferences. This, however, does not solve the problem.
As I indicated above, these crashes always circumvent MacOS’s usual app-crash process, with the report dialog.
Operating System: Mac OS Catalina
Version: 10.15.7
System: iMac 27 inch, late 2012
Brave Browser Version: The latest version
I too have been experiencing frequent crashing incidents of late (over the last week or so).
At this point, when I launch the Brave Browser, it immediately crashes within seconds of the launch.
Before this most recent radical behavior, the browser operated normally over a good portion of a typical day and then would all of a sudden crash.
I do not know what triggered this sudden and unexpected behavior but unfortunately, Brave browser in its current state is completely unusable.
I look forward to resolving this issue as soon as the cause has been detected and a fix can be applied.
Since the last Brave update V1.35.100 Brave keeps crashing.
Operating System: Mac OS Catalina
Version: 10.15.7
System: iMac 27 inch, late 2012
Brave Browser Version: The latest version
“Help improve Brave’s features and performance. Automatically sends crash reports to Brave.” (Is that enabled?)
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Running the Console application (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) for Mac OS.
In this application’s Console window, look at:
System Reports
User Reports
CrashReporter
DiagnosticReports
DiagnosticMessages
Wherever you may find them. For example, drill down into:
/Library/Logs – there you may find a DiagnosticReports
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One problem that I find with Brave Browser – within the Console.app (for Mac OS) reporting – is that Brave Browser throws many excess WAKEUPS. Example:
Event: wakeups
Wakeups: 45002 wakeups over the last 180 seconds (250 wakeups per second average), exceeding limit of 150 wakeups per second over 300 seconds
Specifically, the culprit is, the “Brave Browser Helper (Renderer)”:
Note the last entry (by “philiprhoades”) at that last link:
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Other errors:
ERROR:sharing_service.cc(222)] Device registration failed with fatal error
ERROR:quic_idle_network_detector.cc(102)] SetAlarm called after stopped
[YouTube]
ERROR:CONSOLE(14)] “Failed to handle media duration metadata: missing publisher key for media key youtube_cO6txCZpbsQ”, source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (14)
ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(275)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
ERROR:get_updates_processor.cc(260)] PostClientToServerMessage() failed during GetUpdates with error
For any users here experiencing these crashes, can you please go to brave://crashes and
if you have automatic crash reporting is enabled (Settings --> Privacy/Security --> Automatically send diagnostic reports), please respond back here with the crash report ID
If Automatically send diagnostic reports is not enabled, ensure you click Send on these crash reports listed on the page, then reply here with the crash report ID
Yet, the only extensions and control of same, that I know of - ie that are apparent to the typical user of Brave Browser - are somehow in the Settings at:
brave://settings/extensions
And, certainly, there is no clue [until it makes itself known by ERROR messages] to
I suspect that the chrome extension might also be the cause of, or related to causes of, other problems with Brave Browser:
instability of the Shields settings
instability of the browser background
instability of downloading PNG formatted files
instability of the Brave Browser display window [mobile]
For example, re the latter, the LEFT and RIGHT arrows for going back and forward among Brave Browser windows, disappear at random occasions. [Tapping where they should be, re-lights their icons.]
Meanwhile, I would follow the instructions given by “Mattches” – it is good that he came to our help.
@avid,
Can you also open the browser and share a couple additional screenshots for me? Namely, the browser task manager (Menu —> More tools --> Task manager) and expand it as much as possible so we can see as much of the information as we can at once? Then, can you also do this with the macOS activity monitor (while Brave is running)? Make sure you’re on the Memory tab when you take the screenshot.
(Re the Activity Monitor shot: this was taken only a couple of minutes after a crash-and-restart, so the memory usage is very low. I find that Brave (or perhaps a Brave extension) leaks memory, and usage will climb steadily until the OS starts giving warning dialogs.)
