I’m using Fedora Workstation 43 Beta, installed browser brave and when I open window freeze.
Just use Firefox.
I have not tried brave, but chrome works fine in f43
Hi,
What I would do is to remove it, remove it’s config and install a previous release, then freeze it. Mine was installed in june 24 and set never to be updated.
Excluding a browser from updates is a bad idea as it weakens security of the browser
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It also prevents a software publisher to push compulsory nasty stuff onto us.
I have frozen browsers on Windows 7 for years and nothing ever happened to me. Did the same with Win XP, which I patched for TLS 1.2 back in time.
All in all, always did that since Firefox 3.6.28, which I still run for stuff on my LAN.
Examples of nasty stuff they do:
They patched VLC to spy on us.
They installed a backdoor in XZutils.
They put a keylogger into CCleaner. I noticed immediately, It had a TSR active.
I just gave it a try on my system with Fedora 43 and I wasn’t able to recreate the issue. I used Brave 1.83.112 flathub version. If you use RPM version let me know and I’ll give it another try.
I use brave on laptop with Fedora 43, but I installed iso F40 with brave and update F41>F42 and now F43, brave is fine. On my desktop, I installed F43 with wayland gnome 49. I think this problem is wayland, brave not works with wayland only.
If you don’t trust Brave, what are you doing using their browser?
I’d sooner assume Firefox to increase telemetry/AI and deserving of a lock before a browser that claims to be better than others in similar regards.
Wayland shouldn’t be a problem. I have used Brave with Wayland for years by setting the ozone platform flags.
That’s really terrible for security.
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Try to install Fedora Workstation 43 in boxes and install brave browser for test. This Fedora (gnome) use only wayland.