Latest update broke Ozone Wayland; Brave window invisible

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Description of the issue: Brave window invisible
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Set Ozone Wayland in brave://flags
  2. Relaunch
  3. Brave does open, but the window is invisible/not drawn properly & moving other windows over Brave causes “visual smearing-artifacts”

Expected result: It still functioning, like before the update

Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.65 I think. Latest Brave Stable & Beta from Flatpak, and the AUR.

Additional Information:
Arch Linux (up2date)
AMD CPU + GPU
KDE Plasma Wayland

Temporary workaround:
Downgrade to an older Flatpak version of Brave:

flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.brave.Browser
sudo flatpak update --commit=<commit_code> com.brave.Browser

(I picked 83ded5971e74194938a9b4590d88a19593d328113ecbfdc15a8e06bf761b0fbe as commit_code, which is from 2024-04-03, but newer ones may also work. Just not the latest.)

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Same for me under Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS.

I had to downgrade to Version 1.64.122 for the browser to work normally again.

sudo apt install brave-browser=1.64.122
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I encountered the same issue on the Flatpak version of Brave and found a fix :

Just replace ~/.var/app/com.brave.Browser/config by ~/.config/ if you are running the non-flatpak version.

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