@housebound@c0nd3stav3l,
Is this your first time installing/running the browser? If you don’t have any data you specifically would like saved (or haven’t yet exported), please try to remove the browser and it’s related data and then reinstall. Let me know if the problem persists after reinstalling.
Note that you’ll have to move the .app to the trash, the icon, and the data found in /Users/peter/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately the problem still persists
The problem only started when I upgraded to Mac OS Catalina and I have used Brave for a long time.
I have the same problem. I’ve been using 1.0 Brave for some time, then I upgraded to Catalina and it started crashing. I tried removing both the Brave.app and the Application Support folder, it still crashes. I also tried Brave Browser Nightly, it crashes immediately after start up.
Brave worked perfectly for weeks. After upgrading the the latest version of the MacOS, Brave will no longer open. I’ve removed Brave, cleared data, restarted and cleaned memory. Brave still continues to crash. I’d be happy to share a crash log if it would be beneficial.
@drkb,
Yes – crash logs are very helpful. You can also enable automatic crash reporting as well. Can you check and see if you get a different result when trying to launch Chrome and/or a different Chromium based browser?
@dfineout@c0nd3stav3l,
There could be a lot of things causing the crash. Neither of you have provided any details or information surrounding the issue to help in diagnosing. Please see my post assisting another user with this issue for steps to try and resolve the issue:
I mentioned that brave has been crashing every time i launch it and I’m desperate for my bookmarks as all my research is in it for a start up I’m in the middle of launching but my post has been ignored for two days now, while this one got 18 replies. I also directly wrote to @Mattches (twice now) and no direct message reply. So what’s up with that? If I’m posting something in the wrong way maybe just let me know so I can rectify it and not just be ignored. Thanks.