**Description of the issue:**Open Brave window or Private window and input Bing.com in address bar, press Enter and window closes.
**Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. Open browser as User or Admin, click common site button for Bing or manually input and browser closes immediately. 2. Open New Private Window click button or manually input address immediately closes. 3. Turn off hardware acceleration, same result. 4. Delete C:\Users(user name)\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data Folder same results. 5. Turn off all extensions, same result.
**Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):**Browser closes immediately.
**Expected result:**Bing search page opens.
**Reproduces how often:**Every time. Even after power cycling computer.
**Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):**Win 7 Pro / [
Version 1.47.186 Chromium: 109.0.5414.119 (Official Build) (64-bit)
**Additional Information:**I know OS & Brave version are no longer supported, but it has worked since installation 5 years ago. I have not downloaded or installed any software. Was working Friday. Left computer running, went to bed. Next morning went to see trending news, input Bing.com and browser closed. Spent all day today researching and trying found suggestions listed with no success.
Happening here as well, for the first time this morning. I typically use Bing.com to check for local weather, but itâs crashing Brave instantly. Iâve repeated it 3 times just to be sure. I noticed youâre an old version of Brave like I am (Version 1.47.186 Chromium: 109.0.5414.119 (Official Build) (64-bit). I strongly suspect this is the culprit, because of some minor change which has occurred on Braveâs end. To be fair, theyâre no longer taking into account people on outdated browsers and computers when making changes, so Iâm not going to hold my breath on a fix here (although one would be nice, obviously)
What I would do, is probably not what you would do:
Back up the bookmarks â export to a bookmarks.html file, by using the Brave Browser Bookmarks Manager.
Back up the passwords (actually, I just will not use any Internet browserâs password management - I use something else and therefore do not have to worry about whatever calamity strikes Brave Browser data/settings.)
Copy the BraveSoftware folder:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\
to a safe location.
Delete that folder. Un-install Brave Browser. Exit / Quit everything and Restart the computer.
What steps exactly did you take, to make it work again?
I have experienced the very same problem with Brave 1.47.186 and I am shying away from uninstalling the browser and installing again, because itâs just Bing, that makes it crash and I have so many extensions installed and configurations, that I would really not do it, unless itâs a 100% guarantee, that it will work afterwards. I have gotten myself the portable version of the same Brave release and it crashes just as well, so from there I concluded that a reinstall would not necessarily solve the problem. Gotten myself the âCentâ browser for the Bing image creator to work again in the meantime, but I would strongly prefer to use Brave again.
Unfortunately either I broke it or Bing came up just long enough for me to take a screenshot to post in my reply. Which I didnât do.
The person helping wasnât clear about what to do with the C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware. The recommendation was to save it in another location. After I successfully called Bing up and took the snapshot I over wrote the new install BraveSoftware folder with the old one. It no longer worked. I followed the delete and re-install process 3 more times leaving the new BraveSoftware folder alone and did not have success any of the 3 times. Gave up after that.
Thanks a lot for your answer. Iâll just leave it at that for now and use the Cent browser instead for those sites, that keep crashing with Brave. Itâs basically the same architecture as Chrome/Brave so itâs fairly easy to get used to. Imported my bookmarks and most of my extensions, so far Cent works quite well for me. A good alternative I find.
Iâm experiencing the same thing. Win7 machine, running the final version that is compatible. (Why did Brave abandon Win7? Itâs the only version that many of my perfectly good machines will run, and by far the best Microsoft has ever produced.) Uninstalled, reinstalled; no improvement. Please build the latest version (assuming that this bug was fixed in it) for 64 bit Win7, even if you do it only occasionally.
