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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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I had this issue arise yesterday. I conducted a system restore from two days ago, and that fixed the issue. My other browser Google Chrome, still has this problem.
Norton antivirus’s browser has yet to have this problem ?
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Thx, my parents had this problem and were very happy I could fix it with this solution. Karma points to you!
Had the same issue, but resolved it by looking at the extensions that were updated.
Go to C:\Users<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions
Sort folder by "Date Modified"
If you see one that has been modified recently - for me, last night - it may be the cause. The names of these folders won't make any sense, and I couldn't tell you what the extension was, however for me I took a copy of the following folder then deleted it. Edge restarted ok
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After starting edge, the above folder was re-instated.
ALWAYS TAKE A COPY of the folder so you can reinstate it if you need.
Thank you. This worked immediately for me. None of the previous solutions worked and the "Modify" and "Delete" buttons were both greyed out. So thank you RH1964 as yours was the only solution for me!
This solution worked for me. Thank you, thank you!