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Edge crashing on launch - MacOS Catalina 10.15.4
Today's update has fixed the issue and the browsers are now functioning as expected
viveksiv Thanks for the update! The team confirmed that this initially seemed to be related to a known issue, but I will pass along your most recent messages to confirm if the behavior that you're seeing is aligned with the current bugs.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Deleted Hi! I want to chip in about the "new InPrivate window crashing Edge on OS X" issue.
It's been happening to me as well. I've debugged it a bit, and it seems this issue is happening when you go to the InPrivate window when you have Default Theme set to "Light".
When I switched my theme to "Dark" or "System Default" (which is also dark) and tried accessing the "new InPrivate" window, it started to work.
The "new InPrivate" window also kept working when I switched back to "Light", but only in the case I had opened the private window with dark theme before. I think it's because some assets were preloaded at this point. Once I restart the browser and open it with the "Light" setting without first opening with the "Dark" setting, the "new InPrivate" link again crashes the process.
I'm guessing very wildly here, but I think it may be related to these changes:
Release noteshttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-relnote-stable-channel#version-81041653-april-13
> Version 81.0.416.53: April 13
>We heard from users it can be difficult to distinguish a normal browsing window in dark theme from an InPrivate window since both window frames are dark. The new solid InPrivate blue pill in the top right corner helps reassure users they are browsing InPrivate.
Sorry for hijacking this thread but I didn't find any other reference to this bug. I can create a new thread, if necessary.
Thanks!
Tomas