brave-browser: Brave crashes when opening the autoplay settings

Description

As mentioned in the title, brave crashes and exits completely when clicking on the autoplay settings under brave://settings/content.

Steps to Reproduce

Go to settings > privacy and security > site and shield settings > additional permissions.
Click autoplay.
Watch brave crash.

Actual result:

Brave shouldn’t crash and show the relevant submenu.

Expected result:

Brave crashes and has to be relaunched.

Reproduces how often:

Easily

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.29.76 Chromium: 93.0.4577.58 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	c4410ece044414ea42fa4ba328d08195e818a99c-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1076}
OS	Linux

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? No idea
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? No idea

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Not related
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? Not related
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Not reproducible because chrome lacks the autoplay as a setting in there.

Miscellaneous Information:

None.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 21 (8 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Confirmed the issue in all Stable, Beta, and Nightly.

Brave	1.29.76 Chromium: 93.0.4577.58 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	c4410ece044414ea42fa4ba328d08195e818a99c-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1076}
OS	Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)

</body> </html> <html> <body>

Brave	1.30.57 Chromium: 93.0.4577.58 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	c4410ece044414ea42fa4ba328d08195e818a99c-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1076}
OS	Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)

</body> </html> <html> <body>

Brave	1.31.10 Chromium: 93.0.4577.58 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision	c4410ece044414ea42fa4ba328d08195e818a99c-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1076}
OS	Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)

</body> </html>

Crash ID’s:

Stable -> dfa36d58-6a5b-4a10-ba0d-f5dc66e79b5b Beta -> d9ef3351-8bac-4b9c-95fe-e4d26884edf1 Nightly -> a53a36d2-ae81-4e3c-b2b1-4528c969d283

Tonev on Sep 1, 2021

Thanks a lot @darylsonnier @Tonev , that helped!

iefremov on Sep 9, 2021

Your other Github ticket was also closed on the same day the pull request was merged into Nightly. Github allows developers to use special words to link an issue to a pull request and close the issue once the pull request is merged, you can take a look over here - https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue.

Tonev on Sep 9, 2021

Confirmed for:

Brave | 1.29.76 Chromium: 93.0.4577.58 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | c4410ece044414ea42fa4ba328d08195e818a99c-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1076}
OS | Linux

on 3 different Ubuntu-based machines.

Edit – same issue in today’s update build:

Brave | 1.29.77 Chromium: 93.0.4577.63 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | ff5c0da2ec0adeaed5550e6c7e98417dac77d98a-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1135}
OS | Linux

onchov on Sep 3, 2021