Brave browser crashes on launch (close unexpectedly)

pedroteu,

When providing an Apple Operating System Crash Report, you [usually, and] only need to provide the lines down thru the Exceptions.

Taking a look, I found that your Apple Mac OS Crash Report points to:

Identifier: com.brave.Browse [the Brave Browser]
Crashed Thread: 7 ThreadPoolForegroundWorker
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_MEMORY_ERROR at 0x000000012194f000

References:

[Apple - Developer:] Examining the Fields in a Crash Report:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/examining-the-fields-in-a-crash-report

[Apple - Developer:] Investigating Memory Access Crashes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/investigating-memory-access-crashes

At that last link, Apple writes:

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What may work to fix your Brave Browser crash problem:

Quit everything and then uninstall Brave Browser. After that, then:


First, move the following “cffkpbalmllkdoenhmdmpbkajipdjfam” folder to the Trash:

/Users/user_shortname/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/cffkpbalmllkdoenhmdmpbkajipdjfam

Reference: “NOTICE: Users seeing browser freeze or crash may have faulty Ad Block Updater component” [Original Post by “Mattches”]


Second, move the CONTENTS ONLY of the following “CertificateRevocation” folder to the Trash:

/Users/user_shortname/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/CertificateRevocation

Reference: “Brave Browser keeps crashing [solved] - #2 by Milka


Third, move the following Caches (“BraveSoftware” and “com.brave.Browser”) folders to the Trash:

/Users/user_shortname/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware

/Users/user_shortname/Library/Caches/com.brave.Browser


Fourth, restart your Mac desktop computer.


Fifth, go here, in order to download the latest Brave Browser installer:

https://brave.com/download/

and install that version of Brave Browser.

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