Just upgraded, new tab shows Error Code RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE

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Description of the issue:
Just upgraded brave:

Version 1.46.134 Chromium: 108.0.5359.94 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Open a new tab, get
Aw, Snap!
Something went wrong while displaying this webpage.
Error Code RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. open up a new tab. See error.

Expected result:
new page with all my shortcuts as before

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.46.134 Chromium: 108.0.5359.94 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional Information:
previous version worked fine.
The page its trying to open is chrome://newtab/
Tried restarting brave, problem persists.
Tried chrome://newtab/ in a private window and don’t get the error message.
Tried clearing cache for the last 24 hours, problem persists.
Removed extensions, restarted brave and tried rebooting the windows PC, problem persists.

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Hi, I have the same problem with the same Brave version. I’ve tried the same fixes as you and they didn’t work. Have you found a solution?

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I think I found the solution. Go to chrome://flags/#brave-news and set it to default (if is not). Relaunch the browser and that’s it.

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Your solution most likely would have worked for me because I had changed the news setting to no news due to it causing a crash in a previous version.
Didn’t think of trying to reset it to the default.
Instead I reinstalled brave, keeping all my settings, that did not solve the problem.
Then reinstall from scratch losing all my bookmarks etc in the process.
That at least fixed the problem.

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That fixed it. Thanks.

I had news turned off, but I don’t mind leaving it on in the meantime.

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