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Yesterday, I wanted to clean up my favorites in Edge (remove duplicates, remove obsolete links). In the midst of this, Edge closed without warning or error message. When I restarted Edge, it closed immediately. I could not select the three dots in the top right. It closed too quickly.
I found several possible solutions including tools in the Settings/Apps menu, other fixes involving removing and then reinstituting the %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe directory
None of these fixes worked.
When I restart Edge, it closes immediately.
How can I get it to work properly?
Troubleshooting browser crashes or performance issues on Windows 10
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A million thanks, you saved me at least those 6 hours that you spent looking for an answer, and I truly appreciate it.
Worked for me. A week later, it happened again. Renamed again. Set up options, again. We'll see how long it works this time.
This was the fix for me. Thank you so much - I was going crazy searching for a solution.
This worked for me. Needed to add the favorites bar back, but they were all there. Seems other settings might also need to be checked.
THANK YOU!
Same, This has just started happening to me this morning.
Tried all the advice here, the only thing that 'worked' was renaming the 'default' file and starting the app. But then its like having a fresh install.
I don't know how to recover/restore my favorites, collections, and history. I was also using the extension Tab Session Manager and can recover all those session. Stupidly didn't have backups or restore points set up. =[
Any advice is welcomed.