Resolved MicrosoftEdge-135.0.3179.54 Crashes When Attempting Google Sign-In

[jimw]

The latest version of Microsoft Edge, 135.0.3179.54 as of this date crashes with no message when an attempt to sign into a google account. Hours were spent trying to find a workaround, including but not limited to resetting Edge settings, deleting and reinstalling Edge, and disabling or removing extensions to no avail.

The only solution found was after syncing the above version to save favorites, settings, etc., deleting Edge with a removal tool such as App Cleaner or Clean My Mac, and reinstalling a previous version. After syncing that version to restore settings, Google sign-in worked fine.

For the time being, I strongly suggest that if you use the solution, that after installing you turn of automatic updates until or if Microsoft fixes this issue.

UPDATE: The latest version of Edge, ending in xxxxxx.73 seems to fix this issue. Of course, you would not know it without testing as I have as µSoft does not seem to list fixes or release notes with its updates.

 

[Slartibart]

what does the Edge crash log in the console say?

 

[jimw]

Never even thought of looking at it. I was under time constraints and I simply needed to fix it. As such I did all the normal troubleshooting steps to no avail. This issue started after an automatic update. After reinstalling the previous version, with all my old settings as I had synced the problematic version just before removing it, the previous version worked fine with no issues. No, I did not report it to µsoft as the process is too time consuming with security protocols, etc. Additionally, they never seem to fix bugs unless they get swamped with reports and one less will not matter. For all I know this issue may have been planned to coerce users to use Bing. It would be just like them to do that. Besides I used to do testing, SQA, and testing for a living for around 50 years and I am feed up with being a volunteer beta tester for software companies who release software with class 1 or class 2 bugs and expect users to waste their time documenting and report them so that the companies can fix the and possibly charge for the 'update'. Proper testing costs real money and affects a software company's profits thus stockholder dividends and executive management's compensation. So why should they spend the time and money to properly do it when they can get naive users to do it for them for free, often paying the company to do it by their purchase and upgrades to their products?