For the past few months every time I open either Chrome or Brave they crash instantly (Firefox continues to work fine). Usually they appear to start up but then graphical glitches appear everywhere (like the video card is freaking out) and then everything just hangs and I have to reboot. Once in a very great while (like maybe 1 out of 20 times) it will actually open up normally but that hasn’t happened in some time. Chrome worked earlier this year but then started crashing so I tried Brave and that does the same thing. As I’ve said earlier though, Firefox continues to work just fine. I thought maybe it might be a flathub issue so I installed the bin version of Brave but that crashed too (although not as violently).
I’m running the latest version of Manjaro Gnome with Kernel 6.12.44 and I have a Radeon R7 360X video card. I’m thinking that somehow Chrome and Brave don’t like my video card but all the issues I’ve read about seem to be related to Nvidia video cards, not Radeon.
Any ideas? I need Chrome or Brave because an app I use doesn’t work with Firefox.
Being Chromium based, Vivaldi might be a valid workaround.
sudo pacman -S vivaldi
Brave is available from the official Manjaro repositories, and yet you have opted not to use it. Try uninstalling your current instance and installing the recommended version:
I note that both brave-bin and google-chrome (and all other software sourced from the AUR) need to be fully rebuilt after each and every Manjaro update. If you have not done this, it’s possible that problems can accumulate over time.
Related: Best practice method for updating your system
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Brave (and Chrome) still crashes my system horribly when it runs though. You can see it starts to open up the browser window, but then the screen glitches out with rainbow colored pixel junk (like the video card freaked out) and the whole system hangs.
I tried it with the most recent kernel version just in case that had anything to do with it, but I still have the same problem.
While it is true that packages sourced from the AUR cannot be installed using pacman it will nonetheless remove/uninstall an application built via the AUR.
That is apparently no longer true according to your output:
The instructions given were;
Obviously, one cannot uninstall a package if it is not already installed; you must have another package type installed which was not clarified;
From your output, you already had brave-browser installed, so naturally, it will not install upon itself, it can only be upgraded.
Waveroom is a popular alternative to Zencastr, and I’m aware there are several others. Perhaps it’s time for a change (assuming they work with Firefox).
Again, on the chance the issue is limited to your User account:
I thought maybe it might be a flathub issue so I installed the bin version of Brave but that crashed too (although not as violently).
That is apparently no longer true according to your output:
Perhaps I uninstalled it after it also didn’t work? I know I ran the command to install it off the Brave page to install the bin version.
From your output, you already had brave-browser installed, so naturally, it will not install upon itself, it can only be upgraded.
Thats because I installed it using pamac after I responded to you using the suggestion from robin0800. It still crashes horribly.
Again, on the chance the issue is limited to your User account:
Sorry I missed this the first time. I’ll give this a try later.
This is an important troubleshooting step. If it is limited only to your account, that can potentially save much much duplication and wasted effort by those wishing to help, which hopefully gets you back on track sooner.
Chrome browsers have a history of problems with crashing, as evidenced by the amount of issues over time.
There’s nothing obviously related in Known Issues and Solutions but perhaps you will find something useful in these results.
I also tried Chromium and Vavaldi and they all crashed in the same way as Brave and Chrome. They all follow the exact same pattern:
I start the app
Manjaro says that the app didn’t unlock the keyring and I need to reenter my password
The browser starts up either with a distorted image and lots of weird rainbow video card artifacts everywhere or the window is flashing very fast like a strobe light with rainbow artifacts everywhere
The system crashes after about 2 seconds
I even tried deleting the chromium and brave directories out of .cache and .config in case something was corrupted in there but nothing helped. Firefox (which continues to work) doesn’t ever do the keyring thing, so I wonder if maybe that has something to do with it? Either that or maybe the Chromium based browsers are having issues with my video card?
Do you have (or can you borrow) another video card to see if the issue persists?
This might be a good time to provide the previously requested system information which may help others identify possible contibutors:
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First, you can try to run Brave without any extension a see if the problem is Brave or one of the Extensions.
In my case, it was manganum.
• Manganum is like an annoying salesman that knocks on your Door.
If you are not careful, and they have cookies, it will be back on your System.
This Extension lead to long load time and random crashes.
If you need manganum, one workaround is to turn off Memory Saver in the setting, but that leads to more Memory use in the long run.
An Extension for a better Management of all Extension is to use: Extensity
Being that all browsers concerned (in varying degrees) are based on Chromium, one presumes the --disable-gpu option should work on all.
<browser> --disable-gpu
Test each browser via the command-line first, and if the workaround is satisfactory, you can then edit the .desktop file either directly in /usr/share/applications/ or via the main Menu.
Without the cause being definitively identified, that’s probably difficult to know at this time, although I suspect the respective ages of both your system and GPU are not doing you many favours.
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