Brave crashing instantly at startup

Description of the issue: Whenever I try to open brave, it crashes instantly. Only showing a white screen for half a second as seen here:
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How can this issue be reproduced? I have no idea what’s causing this, I’ve seen some people online try to do things with the Local State file but my file doesn’t have any arguments like theirs so I can’t use their fixes.

Brave Version( check About Brave): Can’t open browser to check but it should be latest (As of March 1st 2023), I uninstalled it and reinstalled it today.

Additional Information: Running windows 11. I cannot get in to disable any settings in brave://___. I have looked for the adblock filters in Local State so as to disable them but the arguments just aren’t there. I do not have a folder called ‘cff…whatever’ in my Local folder but deleting that is the only official solution I’ve heard about so since I can’t do that, I’m at a loss

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Hello @alex2k

Thank you for reaching out and I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. Could you kindly try to install the Beta or Nightly version of Brave to see if the issue is solved?

Let me know if that changes anything.

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exact same thing happens with them im afraid. was able to run the nightly build without an issue for about 10 seconds but the beta didnt work at all.

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Hi again! @alex2k

Thanks for your reply we appreciate the details. One question, are you using any third party program to clean files or to optimize your computer?

Be waiting for your response!

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I dont think i have anything like that installed, only thing that might effect that is msi center

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Hi again! @alex2k

Could you kindly try to disable msi center to see if the issue persist?

Let us know if that helps!

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used task manager to close anything obviously related to msi center and the issue still happens

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any update on this?

i’ve installed brave for the first time (coming from chrome) and i’m getting this issue

Hello @lilsquish08

Thank you for reaching out and I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. Could you please share the following information:

1 - What kind of device and OS do you have?
2 - Have you updated to the latest Brave version?

Be waiting for your response!

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Hi again! @alex2k

Thanks for the information, I’ve shared this with our team and I’m waiting for further information on the matter. Once our team has answers, We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Have a great day!

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hi, i’m on a desktop computer running Windows 10 22H2

i just installed brave today so yes, it’s the latest reason

sorry for the bump but i never got an answer and the problem is still occuring…

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