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Crash starting with Edge Beta 101.0.1210.10 and up
Edge Beta 101.0.1210.10 and on is crashing on our Windows 10 computers. This is also affecting the latest Beta, as well as Dev and Canary. After digging into it, we found that it's caused by a registry key that was copied over from our Chrome policies. We're not using GPOs specifically, because we currently have to maintain both browsers, so we have a scripted solution to apply many of the policies. This has worked without issue since initial Edge stable release.
Specifically, the existence of this key is triggering will crash:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\SafeBrowsingAllowlistDomains
There doesn't need to be anything in it. If the key exists, Edge will crash.
The chrome_debug.log shows only:
[9100:20444:0414/085131.278:WARNING:registry_dict.cc(140)] Failed to convert string to boolean
[9100:20444:0414/085131.278:WARNING:registry_dict.cc(140)] Failed to convert string to boolean
Obviously, we'll be taking steps to ensure that key is removed before we move to 101, but we're still concerned that a stray registry is enough to crash Edge entirely.