Like the title says i haven’t been able to open the Brave browser because when trying to open it a white sheet appears for a split second and closes immediately. The issue started happening today when i used the Chrome browser to watch a movie in Netflix (because for some reason i’m not able to in Brave), after that when i tried to open Brave the issue i explained earlier happens.
I have only tried reinstalling the browser but to no success, i’m also in the latest version too. Hopefully it gets fixed quick because i’ve seen more people are having the same issue
Im a Win7 user, with latest 2023 Mircoshaft update, brave version is 1.47.186 and crashed at each launch, as of Sep-11-2014. Yesterday on Sep-10 it worked.
I still need win 7 to work for possibly up to 1 more year as I’m converting all systems to fedora-Linux (MS products are just becoming to thorny to bother with)
I have tried a number of the brave community suggestions such as
** it may be worth noting that when I pull Ethernet cable out of my desktop, Brave browser can run forever, looking at examples such as file directories, or loading old, save web page files. BUT, when I re-connect to the internet… poof.-crash
I’m seriously thinking of walking away from brave as this really burns valuable time. i hate saying that, but soon no choice. other browsers line Ccleaner-Browser, also based on chrome don’t have this crash issue , neither does old versions of Firefox, or both old and new versions of Opera.
** Delete all history (this delays crashing from 2 seconds, to about 5 seconds)
** turn off all extensions (this delays crashing from 2 seconds, to about 20 seconds)… i can do this by keep Ethernet cable out, to prevent crash… (ie stay of internet)
** tried fix from community person nivakis, post of Aug 2021
Aug 2021… they suggested text copy… between [[[ … ]]]
[[[
To do this navigate to: C:\Users\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data and locate the file “Local State”. Open the file with notepad and at about the beginning you will find:
“brave”:{“ad_block”:{
a little further down you will find:
“regional_filters”:
followed by the ID of each filter and it’s state (true or false).
What I did is used the replace function in notepad and changed the state of each filter to false. ]]]
This does not fix the issue
** here is another Aug 2021, published “fix” that does work (for me)
[[[
Mattches
Browser Support Aug 2021
Dear Brave Users,
A recent issue with Brave’s ad-block list distribution infrastructure caused a small number of users to experience out-of-memory related freezes on startup. The issue has been resolved, but affected users may need to manually remove older data files from their profile directory.
To manually remove and re-download the affected component:
Close all Brave instances
Locate your user data directory
For Windows users: ~/Users/AppData/Local/BraveSoftware/Brave-browser/User Data/
Locate the cffkpbalmllkdoenhmdmpbkajipdjfam directory – this is the affected component – and delete it.
]]]
this also does not fix launch crash issue
** I also un-installed JAVA, and manually re-installed the latest 64 bit version. Also did not fix this issue.
***** For now… i have to stop trying to make brave function, as i have already a month ago stopped banking with it,
as several USA based big banks wont talk to brave version 1.47.186 any more. So i other browsers that still do work (Not Microsoft products) .
There is some blogger chit-chat about making brave pretend its another browser as a fix for a banks refuse to have its servers talk to it… but i have not yet figured out how to do that. too bad there is not a simple extension to provide that feature.
Here is what i will do in the next few days… get into Free-Wireshark, and try to see which IP-address on the internet (and possible identify who is the bad-guy server) who kills the browser, upon contact, then publish that information here. Not so much to make a fix for Brave-incoprated-et-al, but to let common community folks know, who is the webserver owner, who’s servers play into this issue, where they are doing this by accident, laziness, or nefariously.
Who knows, perhaps i can set up peer-blocker to prevent contact with that nefarious server, that Brave is seeking out contact with.
