'Brave didn't shut down correctly' and then it just crashes

[boa]

this did not work it let me open it for a little longer but still crashed, this here worked for this issue though

Brave crash upon opening

I am also experiencing the same problem since 2 days ago. I have narrowed the problem down to “Brave Ad Block”. Some filters, or selecting all of them at once, cause this behavior. The only solution I found for this, is to manually change the state of the selected filters in the settings file “Local State”. To do this navigate to: C:\Users<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data and locate the file “Local State”. Open the file with notepad and at about the beginning you …