Newest version crashes found on M1 Pro macOS

[scris]

Description

When using Brave Browser 1.42, everything works fine. Then it auto update to the newest version available now, and it crashes every time when I tried to launch it. Downgrading to 1.42.95 make it work again. Given that auto update is very efficient, sorry I'm wondering if I have chance to use it anymore :(

Thank you for taking time on this.

• macOS Monterey 12.5.1
• MacBook Pro (2021) with Apple M1 Pro

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the newest version of Brave on specific platform.
2. It crashes.

Actual result:

Crashes on open, without the Apple warning on accidentally exit.

Expected result:

The app can open.

Reproduces how often:

Every time opening it.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Working Version:

Brave | 1.42.95 Chromium: 104.0.5112.81 (正式版本) (arm64)
修订版本 | 5b7b76419d50f583022568b6764b630f6ddc9208-refs/branch-heads/5112@{#1309}
操作系统 | macOS 版本12.5.1（版号21G83）

Crash Version:

Brave | 1.43.89
Brave | 1.43.88
Brave | 1.43.87

• Just crashes, thus I can't get access to brave://version.

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
  • Yes. To check, I downloaded it from GitHub release.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
  • Beta hasn't got a macOS ARM .dmg file.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?
  • Nightly hasn't got a macOS ARM .dmg file.

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
  • No.

Miscellaneous Information:

• Cleaning up user data does not work for me.

[yordiak]

I have installed brave (version 1.43.89) on a macbook air (2020) (version 12.5.1, with M1 processor) and I do not experience any crash issues.

[scris]

What need/could/should I provide?
Screen replay: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23412857/188466365-3356f670-0c41-4650-948a-0e731cecde15.mp4

[bsclifton]

@scris can you please install the older version of Brave and then visit brave://flags ? I suspect you have an option disabled here which is causing the crash. Disabling News or Sync can cause this crash - set those back to Default

Please let us know if this works 😄

[francisashley]

Holy crap please fix this

[francisashley]

Would appreciate if the option to disable news were stable.

[francisashley]

I can confirm Brave works again after resetting "Enable Brave News" and downloading the latest version from the site.

on macOS M1 v12.4

[bsclifton]

News is controlled via regular settings; it's no longer an experiment. The flags could be removed at any time

Thanks for confirming 😄

[bsclifton]

Closing this as a duplicate of #25156

You can subscribe to that issue for more details

[scris]

@scris can you please install the older version of Brave and then visit brave://flags ? I suspect you have an option disabled here which is causing the crash. Disabling News or Sync can cause this crash - set those back to Default

Please let us know if this works 😄

You're right, thank you!