Brave is not opening and if i try opening as adimistrator it opens for 0.5 seconds then closing

[Hotdogs555]

Yeah. Same was happening to me too. No pop-ups because it’s instantly crashing.
Another update was pushed last night (hadn’t checked since then yet) and it’s back to crashing. Workaround fixes are here:

Aggregate Topic: Outdated Brave crashing on YouTube

My attempt at an aggregate solution post. This is affecting ALL OSs with older Brave browser versions. Win 7/8.1 are hard-locked to a certain version, which this impacts the most. The “why” is due to the following: There’s a part of Brave that still updates in the background brave://components. This is what handles stuff like the Shields (and why it continues to work with blocking ads/trackers even in older versions). In an unspecific explanation, it’s how the shields interact with google/you…

Or do you mean it’s closing/crashing the moment you try to even open it without restoring tabs? Or would you happen to have YT/google set as your home page?