Microsoft Edge closes immediately upon opening. I've tried many fixes none work.

Anonymous
2023-08-15T11:52:24+00:00

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?

Microsoft Edge | Browser crashes or stops working | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-10T21:26:06+00:00

    Thank you SOOOOO MUCH! Also, why would this folder cause the app to automatically close? If Microsoft pushed the update and (seemingly everyone) had the same issue with it, wouldn't they post another update right away to resolve it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-10T21:44:48+00:00

    This worked for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-11T00:59:30+00:00

    My hero. u a real one.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-11T08:19:35+00:00

    Appdata is a hidden folder. There are two ways to get around this.

    In file explorer, do one of the following

    1. In the address bar, type the following - this will take you directly to the folder. %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions
    2. If you want,. you can turn on view hidden folders so that they always visible. In Explorere, click on "View", then "Show", then "Hidden Items". You can then navigate to the folder using the navigation pane as usual. Note that hidden folders will now be visible, but will have a slightly dulled icon so that you know they are/were hidden. This has no impact on anything and is just a visual cue.

    Hope this helps.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-11T09:04:12+00:00

    This solution worked for me too! Many thanks, btw the distorters was a .json file

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