So definitely related to Vertical Tabs and certain extensions. We’ve reproduced the issue via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33598#issuecomment-1760025022 and are looking into the issue. Hopefully we have a fix soon that we can roll out. In the mean time, as mentioned above, there’s basically two solutions that can restore your profile:
Solution #1:
- remove theming extension from
AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Extensionsas per https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33598#issuecomment-1760094319. Believe this was mentioned above as well.
Solution #2:
- disable
Vertical Tabsfrom thePreferencefile as per Brave crashes immediately upon startup - #25 by Daniel2193.
Solution #3: (Easiest)
- launch brave using
--disable-features=BraveVerticalTabs. For example,brave.exe --enable-logging=stderr --disable-features=BraveVerticalTabfrom theC:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Applicationdirectory.
The above solutions are also outlined via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33598#issuecomment-1760094319.