Hello,
This problem suddenly invented itself and while I do appreciate a challenge it's getting the best of me.
On some networks, Brave will lag to the point of unusablitily when typing something into the address bar. A workaround is to have lots of shortcuts on the homepage or use the homepage's search bar to lookup a website. Clicking links net instant results.
No other network-related issues are happening.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Brave from Zorin, and even tried Brave from a flatpack.
The network that causes it issues is my work network, but I have my connection whitelisted. It is a gig-fiber network with a Meraki firewall that shows no restrictions in it's event viewer regarding this.
At home, on my gig-cable network, it works totally fine.
So the thing that's bugging me the most is how the address-bar search can be broken by simply switching networks.
I've combed the internet and found plenty of people having the same issue and it's not just with Zorin but I haven't seen any solid fixes. Seems like, with most people, it usually happens in an update and then goes away in the next update.
If anyone has seen this before I would very much appreciate hearing about it.
Thank you.
That this only occurs in searches to address bar input and is network-sensitive, this suggests something affecting DNS resolution, network timeouts, or telemetry lookups triggered by Brave Browsers omnibox.
What you can try:
Go to Brave Settings > Privacy and Toggle off:
- Autocomplete searches and URLs
- Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions
- Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar
My logic is that DNS pre-fetching or pre-resolution may be getting blocked by Meraki due to DNS inspection and content filtering modules (even if the client is whitelisted.)
Are working a lot of People on Your working Place and using this Network? If yes, that could affect it, too when several People at the same time use the same Network.
As you type in the address bar, you should see suggestions popping up as to what to search for. I don't know if Brave would try to resend the query if it fails the first time (for whatever reason) but this would explain the lag since every new keystroke would create a new loop of send, fail and retry.
Try disabling settings related to the Search, like telemetry and autocomplete suggestions. If you search in the settings for "suggest" you should see a bunch of related settings:
Well, I'd love to say I tried something and it fixed it but that didn't happen. It fixed itself and now I can't make the issue happen. Maybe an update fixed it. Can't really tell.
Thank you for the suggestions!