Updated to Brave v1.75.181 about a week ago. Since then, I had been getting the “Aw snap” black screen with error code SIGILL more and more frequently, so I cleared my cache and made sure to not have too many tabs open. Yesterday, Brave would just start quitting on its own, with no discernible pattern to what I was doing when it would crash / quit. No error messages or anything.
Today, Brave crashed / quit. I clicked the icon to restart, and had a popup window saying my Preferences file had been corrupted and I had lost my preferences . Sure enough, I have lost my preference and all my browser extensions. However - fortunately - my history, passwords, and all the rest is still there.
How can I restore / uncorrupt my preferences file, and “reload” them (and my extensions)? Thank you.