Yahoo Mail Attachment is causing Brave to crash

[alexwykoff]

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Yes

Describe the issue you encountered:
Reported by @paz5050 on Twitter : When attempting to add an attachment to Yahoo Mail, the Brave browser crashes. Used on Windows 8.

Initial investigation could not reproduce the issue on a Windows 7 VM with 0.11.6.

Expected behavior:
The attachment should be added without issue.

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):
  Windows 8
• Brave Version:
  Unknown.
• Steps to reproduce:
  1. Log into Yahoo mail.
  2. Compose a new message.
  3. Attempt to add an attachment.
• Screenshot if needed:
• Any related issues:
  Browser attachment shut down #716 seems to be similar.

[bbondy]

/cc @bridiver

[bbondy]

could you ask him which version he's on? I tried to create a Yahoo account and attach a file on Windows and macOS but couldn't repro. I tried 7 but it shouldn't be diff from 10.

[luixxiul]

For now I'm going to close this issue as stale in favor of this topic on our community site.

https://community.brave.com/t/yahoo-mail-attachment-is-causing-brave-to-crash/10386

Let's reopen if we receive other reports there 😉