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Brave Dev - Opening "Rewards Settings" immediately closes browser

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Description

Trying to view Brave Rewards settings in Developer build crashes the browser on macOS (Mojave 10.14.1).

Crash occurs when navigating to Rewards Settings from the extension or via address bar (brave://rewards) image devcrash3

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Update Developer build to v0.59.2
  2. Try to open Rewards Setting from Rewards extension in address bar
  3. Try to open Rewards Setting by entering brave://rewards into address bar.

Actual result:

Browser freezes and crashes almost instantly.

Expected result:

Rewards settings appear for me to fiddle with.

Reproduces how often:

Every time.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Developer Build version 0.59.2 on macOS Mojave 10.14.11

Reproducible on current release:

No, seems to be just fine on Live and Beta release

Additional Information

Worth noting that I can only reproduce this on macOS. Rewards functions as intended on Windows 10.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:15 (12 by maintainers)

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iefremovcommented, Dec 10, 2018

@NejcZdovc @simonhong I had a quick look, and here is the line added recently that can obviously cause crash when wallet_properties is nullptr (and it can be nullptr) https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/ui/webui/brave_rewards_ui.cc#L342

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GeetaSarvadnyacommented, Dec 13, 2018

(On Windows - 0.58.11) - I am able to Reproduce the issue contineously only when the n/w is disconnected.

  1. Launch brave with clean profile from CLI BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/Application/brave.exe
  2. Enable Rewards through Rewards panel and accept the grants
  3. Disconnect the internet (WIFI/vpn)
  4. Click on BAT logo on Rewards page

Actual : Browser crashes

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