Hi, I’m currently using Brave Beta, and it has been working fine until this moment. One of my profiles, of course the one I have everything bookmarked and saved on, won’t stop crashing. My other profiles work just fine, it’s just this specific one. I can’t even access it to potentially turn off any …

@lalalam can you try launching the browser from the Windows command line or PowerShell terminal? By launching this way, we can launch with flags to disable some of the potential causes of the issue. I think we should start with disabling extensions. To do this: Search for Command prompt in the Wind…

Hi, it just launches the profile I’m currently on and I’m still not able to switch to my main profile. It still crashes the same way. I’ve tried extracting the bookmarks from %appdata% but have had no luck so far, as well as running the app as administrator.

How many profiles do you have created in the browser at this time? Is it just your main profile and the new one you have open?

@Mattches 1 profile. The latest Brave Origin Beta and Brave Origin Nightly won’t launch. Beta 154.1.97.42 Nightly 154.1.97.39 Guest mode works normally.

[image] Brave Beta 1.97.42 - existing profiles no longer open on Windows, new profiles work, downgrade fixes immediately Beta Builds We’ve opened an issue and have escalated the matter. We should have more for you soon. Thanks for reporting!

I am having a similar issue after updating this morning Brave Beta to 1.97.42 on Windows 11. I can launch with my main profile but switching to my work profile causes a crash. Trying to delete the work profile also crashes Brave. I did a full removal and reinstall, but the issue persists.

I am facing the same issue on Brave Beta 1.97.41 and 1.97.42 on Windows 11. Main profile works fine, the rest of the profiles are crashing the entire Browser

Migrate to nightly. This version receives fixes more frequently.

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