Recently, I stumbled onto a website that caused my computer to beep and lock up. After a hard reboot, Brave won’t start. I’ve tried deleting Brave from the Applications folder, then downloading the latest version and reinstalling, but the problem persists: “Brave Browser quit unexpectedly”. Usually, it doesn’t get as far as even opening a window. As far as I can tell, Brave is the only application with this issue after the crash.
It happens every time I try to start Brave.
My expected result would be for it start up properly again.
When you tried to delete via the applications folder, did everything go into the trash folder or was there still any lingering files/folders?
If there are still any folder, i would drag them to the trash. Check the preferences folder. If all else fails,
check out revo uninstaller for mac. I would just google it to find the download. Not sure if im ok to post links here or not. Good luck
Revo Uninstaller didn’t seem to be available for Mac, so I used Nektony’s App-Cleaner instead. Deleted everything associated with Brave, then reinstalled it, and I’m happy to say that it works again. It’s a complete reset of the application, though, so I’d only recommend it as a last resort. Could be that I could’ve gotten away with only deleting some of the folders, but I didn’t have the patience to sort through it all.