Added duckduckgo as search and then black screen

[Mattches]

Taken from the thread linked above – these are the steps you should be following to resolve the issue:

@Mattches

Workaround for Windows 7 Blank screen:

1. Find the shortcut for Brave (generally on Desktop), right-click and select Properties from the context menu.
2. Click into the “Target” field, and type --disable-gpu at the end of the path. Note that you must type this outside of the quotes with a space between the flag and quotes . It should look something like this:

3. Click Apply then OK then open the modified shortcut you just created.
4. Assuming this worked and you’re able to view Brave, open the main menu on the top-right
5. Navigate to Settings --> Advanced --> System --> Hardware Acceleration
6. Ensure this option is off. If not, toggle it off and relaunch:

7. Now, return to the modified shortcut, remove the --disable-gpu flag from the Target path and launch Brave using that shortcut.