Brave browser appears to have broken

[CanyonRoss]

I use Brave browser, but this morning it is not showing much of any page. There is no text displayed at all. If I go to clear browsing history/cache/cookies etc it takes me to the settings page, but because no text is displayed I can't actually know where to press to get it to clear the history. Any thoughts??

Many thanks in advance,

Ross.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Works fine here without any problems whatsoever.
Kubuntu 22.04 + Kubuntu Backports + X11 - everything up-to-date
Brave Version 1.51.118 Chromium: 113.0.5672.126 (Official Build) - installed via official PPA (https://brave.com/linux/)

Do you use the Brave PPA, Flatpak or … ?
X11 or Wayland?

[CanyonRoss]

Hi, and thanks for your reply.

It was working absolutely fine until this morning. No idea if there was an update last night or something that I did.

I'm not sure exactly, but I installed via the command line after having issues with snap (which I uninstalled). Not sure what to do because I can't see any text, I can't clear the cache, cookies etc and can't export my bookmarks because I can't see the text to be able to do it. Really bizarre.

Thanks in advance.

[CanyonRoss]

I uninstalled brave, did apt-get autoclean and autoremove etc, then reinstalled it but it's still the same situation..... Really irritating, and bizarre!

[claydoh]

I uninstalled brave, did apt-get autoclean and autoremove etc, then reinstalled it but it's still the same situation..... Really irritating, and bizarre!

Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't usually fix things like this - you are either reinstalling the same broken software, the same dependencies, or the problem lies in the local user config files, caches, etc in your $HOME, which are not touched in this process.

https://community.brave.com/ probably is a place to look.
Or here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1469...website-graphi
It does not seem specific to Ubuntu

[CanyonRoss]

Interesting. At least it's seemingly not just me!

[sgage]

I am not having any issues with Brave as of Saturday mid-morning UTC.

[CanyonRoss]

I am not having any issues with Brave as of Saturday mid-morning UTC.

My desktop PC, running the same version of Kubuntu is also not having issues. No idea what's wrong or how to fix it. It is most frustrating.

[CanyonRoss]

So my laptop has just had a Brave browser update. Brave now works again. Obviously a bug effecting certain machines, I guess!

[vanadiumboy]

If you want, you can install Brave, the DEB version.



Install it this way.
This info comes from brave.com


sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3...ve-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

It will download about 100 MB of files it will decompress, it will place a shortcut on your Start menu.


And Discover updated it today and Brave is still working from the Quick Launch bar.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Yes, this is the official method from their website, already mentioned above: https://brave.com/linux/
I believe the OP already installed it this way after ditching the Snap version.

It will install Brave to /opt and future updates are carried out by the system's package manager, apt, nala, pkcon, Discover, Synaptic, …