Brave crashing/immediately closing upon starting

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Description of the issue: Brave will not open upon trying to start it/crashes upon starting.

Steps to Reproduce: Start up brave.

Actual Result: Brave crashes.

Expected result: Brave opening as normal.

Reproduces how often: Infinitely.

Operating System and Brave Version: Windows 10, latest brave version ( V1.33.106)

Additional Information: I really need some help, I tried most common fixes such as reinstalling, downloading via standalone setup, disabling gpu through properties, and countlessly restarting my pc after each attempted fix. I really need some help.

Note: It was fine earlier today, it only started acting up when a windows update installed. To my assumption this is the cause as I’ve never encountered this issue prior.

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Same thing is happening to me will my passwords save after reinstall?

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I had the same problem, but it was right before the Windows update. Pretty much the same time though.

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It got fixed for you?

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You may want to backup your defaults folder, it contains all of your profile data (bookmarks, passwords, etc.)

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Nope. I’ve tried tons of stuff. Using chrome right now.

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Happy I made a password backup a month ago might have to reset a few.

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I backed up everything in my user data folder and then loaded up brave with an empty folder and that didn’t work. Thankfully I use keypass as my password manager so that’s not effected by this.

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Same here, I tried all the usual methods of fixing this issue.
Like you mentioned, disable gpu acceleration, uninstalling and reinstalling, deleting certain types of folders, still have yet to find a working fix.

My guess would be something from the windows update is affecting the way brave launches, or vice versa. Using chrome right now as well, really hope there’s a fix out soon.

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bonjours j’ai le même problème que vous mais moi cela me le fait aussi pour chrome, opéra, il y a juste Microsoft Edge et Avast Security browser qui se lance.
j’espère que vous saurait nous trouvez une solutions

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Same thing happening to me, I really need this to be fixed soon.

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Thanks all for reporting, is this still an issue? Currently investigating.

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@vortex_idk @Vandinar @timotheninja thanks again for reporting. Can you tell me more about what you have enabled in the browser: Rewards, Sync, Wallet?

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I don’t think I have any enabled

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It’s still an issue for me

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@timotheninja @vortex_idk @Vandinar have you added any new extensions? Did you enable any flags via brave://flags by any chance?

Can you check to see if there are any crashes reported using the following:

C:\Users[user]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Crashpad

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@WRY_DOS_EET_CRASH does downloading the older version launch for you?

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I haven’t added any extensions recently. Would enabling flags fix it or could it be a cause?

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même avec une autre version brave ne se lance pas

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Under the reports folder, is the report a DMP file?