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Strubi99
Aug 17, 2022Copper Contributor
Edge Beta / Dev / Canary not starting
As of this morning Edge Beta stopped working: if I double click on the icon nothing happens. I tried intalling Dev and Canary but the same thing happens. Only the stable edition keeps working. I'm...
- Sep 02, 2022FIXED!!
I scanned the registry for 'MetricsReportingEnabled'. It appeared on my PC under Edge two times.
1. [Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\]
2. [Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3783096567-2060243791-1526209860-
1001\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\]
Deleted both and now I'm happy again.
rdwing2
Aug 30, 2022Copper Contributor
josh_bodner Just updated Dev to 106.0.1356.0, and it still wont launch. Beta is at 104.0.1293.70 and doesn't work either. The only way I could recover was copying my whole AppData user folder to native edge which is still on 104. Hope that won't change soon.
josh_bodner
Aug 30, 2022Former Employee
rdwing2 Beta should be at version 105, so you may want to re-download the installer. Otherwise though, it looks like most of you are hitting a different issue, which is what I wanted to find out. One last thing: do any of you have crash dumps in Edge's App Data that correspond to trying to open the browser? They would be in
%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge Beta <or Edge Dev>\User Data\Crashpad\reports
I won't be surprised if you don't though.
- rdwing2Aug 31, 2022Copper Contributorjosh_bodner I'll check on Beta and reinstall. I do have crash dumps and just sent them to you in a PM. Hope it helps.
- josh_bodnerSep 02, 2022Former EmployeeThey very much have! All of the dumps seem to be crashing when trying to read a particular registry key. Can you (and anybody else with this issue) try deleting the MetricsReportingEnabled DWORD under
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\
and see if that fixes it?- NickMCBRSep 06, 2022Copper ContributorI can confirm that deleting "MetricsReportingEnabled" also fixes Edge 105 stable from not starting. I tried all the dev builds on x86 and x64 and it wouldn't install properly either.
I thought it was an MSI problem.