Brave browser on KDE

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Installed via the Package Manager, but doesnt work, Opens up and instantly freezes. Menu drop down works but is ‘ghosted’ and inaccessible. What info is required to asses why?

  Host: merlin-imac142 Kernel: 7.1.4-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac14,2 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61 v: iMac14,2
    serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: Apple v: 433.140.2.0.0
    date: 04/18/2022
CPU:
  Info: quad core Intel Core i7-4770S [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 2538
    min/max: 800/3900
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK104M [GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition] driver: nouveau
    v: kernel
  Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.24 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.13
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: nouveau
    gpu: nouveau resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 26.1.5-arch1.1
    renderer: NVE4
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: wl
  Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 14.65 GiB (1.0%)
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.55 GiB used: 2.19 GiB (14.1%)
  Processes: 255 Uptime: 1h 4m Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.41
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Do you see an error if you launch Brave via terminal? Have you tried with a fresh configuration file?

3

It is evident that your system is Apple iMac hardware.

Apple is known for their weird hardware implementation which makes it difficult to make anything but Apples macOS working with the hardware.

You could try with an older Nvidia driver e.g. nvidia-470xx

sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx

It is not the Brave browser itself - but a combination of your hardware and the browser.

I suggest you start with the browser settings → System → disable GPU acceleration.

I am using Brave Origin browser and I have no issues with the browser; but my hardware is not Apple.

We have a few members which have experimented with Apple hardware perhaps they have advise?

The freedesktop developers responsible for nouveau has this

The problem is likely because Plasma defaults to Wayland and the combination of Wayland and old Nvidia GPU is less than ideal.

Also the Nova driver project

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I had a feeling it might be connected to the GPU driver. However this system does not like the nvidia 470 drivers.
Best if I drop the idea for now.