Description of the issue: Youtube vidoes enter a buffering state after rougly 30 seconds of play time, this occurs randomly on all forms of long form videos: i.e. music, livestream uploads, let’s plays.
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary):
- Launch the latest version of brave
- Go to youtube
- Insure you have shields up per picture
- Attempt to play any youtube video
- Be unable to watch more than 30 seconds befor infinite buffering.
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Expected result: The youtube video to play for more than 30 seconds
Reproduces how often: Nearly every video I attempt to watch
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): Edi: Windows 11 Home Ver: 24H2 Install Date: 2/24/2025 OS Build#: 26100.3194 Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.48.0
Brave: Version 1.75.181 Chromium: 133.0.6943.141 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional Information: ISP: TDS, Updated Brave 1-2 days ago.
@JamiePRose,
Have you tried clearing cache/site data for Youtube yet? If not, I’d try this first to se if there’s some “bad data” stuck in the cache causing the issue. To do this quickly:
- Launch Brave and visit youtube.com
- Click the “tune” icon on the left side of the address bar, then
Site settings:
- Then
Delete data on the next page
- Refresh Youtube (you’ll likely have to log back in again)
Try this and then test again to see if the issue persists.
Still occuring intermittently after following your steps. It appears to be random as to when it does it. Refreshing the pages sometimes fixes it but not always.
Completely nuked my site data and cookies for all of Brave, issue is still happening. This was not happening in the previous version of Brave. Do you know how to backdate Brave to the previous version so I can have my youtube functioning?
This is untennable and unacceptable that a website will completely refuse to function on your browser, a website used by hundreses of millions of people.
I have reset my wifi adapter, my router, my browser settings, anything I can think of and nothing is fixing this.
@JamiePRose I would not recommend using older versions of the browser as it may make you more vulnerable to attacks and/or encountering other bugs that were not yet fixed with the latest release.
Can you please confirm whether or not you have any extensions installed in the browser at this time?
I have had great success in the past with rolling back apps to better versions that acutally worked.
To answer your question, yes I do. I currently have the following installed and active: Freevee Skipper, Workona Spaces, and Google Docs Dark Mode. @Mattches
Disabled and relaunched and tested, still have the same issues.
Last test here – can you please launch a guest profile (Menu --> More tools --> Guest profile), close your original profile window, then test Youtube there and tell me if you get the same results.
The issue persists even in Guest Profile with main closed. Please Provide Previous Verson Of Brave. @Mattches
I just reverted to the previous update and the issue persists.
Then I would recommend updating back to the latest build to ensure that you have the latest fixes and security protections, considering the issue persists either way.
Can you confirm for me that, under the same conditions, you don’t see this particular issue in other browsers (namely Chromium browsers like Chrome, Edge, etc)?
Reupdated. Same issues seems to be occuring on Chrome, I do not have Edge (removed it ages ago with no intention to reinstall).
@Mattches (20 characters to let me reply ping you)
Well… looks like it might have been windows that broke things, which is still not a good look that a browser can break with an arrent OS update. I don’t have the time to truely test it out tonight, but YT shorts no longer freeze after one or two and I was able to watch a whole video with no freezes. Will check more later.
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System updates break apps/browser all the time. Please let me know if the issue occurs again.
