MS Edge opens but freezes

[JamesKB]

Dell Studio XPS 8100 with a 1 TB ssd, 16GB ram
OS: Kubuntu 26.04

I installed microsoft-edge-stable_151.0.4129.86-1_amd64.debb. It opens but then freezes. All I can do is close it. It never asks if I want to sync my shortcuts across all my devices. I cannot enter a url in the address bar. Nothing works. All I can do is close it. Ideas?

Thank you for your time.
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James

[JamesKB]

Same things happen when I installed the Brave browser from Snap. Ideas?

[die.boer]

disable GPU acceleration
please try

microsoft-edge --disable-gpu

or

microsoft-edge-stable --disable-gpu

for brave:

brave --disable-gpu

or

brave-browser --disable-gpu

If neither command exists, tell me what you get from:

which brave

which brave-browser​