Hi… thanks for responding so quickly.
I have just attempted this, and the loading time extended by a further 6 seconds to 26 seconds.
Switching it back, the loading time is still around 20 seconds - Browser was restarted after each change for it to take effect.
There is a definite bug that has occurred on the latest release.
Decided to try re-install, still could not get it going…but after reading the other peoples comments i ticked the box in the wizard to delete browsing history then launched…success except i lost bookmarks from old brave…still, it’s working fine…thanks for getting back to me…cheers
@richard1,
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@xdunal3306,
I’m wondering if this may be a profile corruption issue. Have you tried clearing your cache/history yet?
Yep… have done all that, cache, cookies, bookmarks, history, profile etc…
Still No Joy 
I do think this is a latest update issue, as it was working perfectly fine before & all other apps open instantly on my Laptop
Here is the message I get when running this command: brave-browser --disable-gpu
[4948:4948:0128/201112.806528:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(967)] Lost UI shared context.
Interesting…
It may be the last update but I haven’t seen that many reports of this. We have another update coming at the end of the week that may fix this for us for free. I’ll keep digging but ping me/bump this thread if I haven’t responded by then (@xdunal3306).
Inspired by @richard1 above, I decided to use @sriram 's commands to remove the Brave browser from my hard drive, and then to use the Software Manager (Linux Mint) to reinstall.
Success!!
The browser came up and I’ve been able to use it. I think there may have been a web page in my history (and coming up on the restore) that was causing Brave to crash or not load.
Anyway, I think I’m good. Thanks to everyone for all the help! Great forum!
Daryl
Hi Mattches.
I did some more digging into this, and it looks to be an issue with a latest windows update pushed to my Windows 10 Build. This was impacting memory compression. - I made some registry adjustments and the issue appears to have been resolved.
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