"Failed to load extension from C:\Extension\... Manifest file is missing or unreadable"

[Abdelhaq75]

Description

Since the latest update to v1.67.123, I keep getting this error every time I open Brave. Clicking "OK" let's me continue... (see attachment)

Steps to reproduce

1. Opening fresh Brave windows (No other Brave windows open)

Actual result

Error (attachment)

Expected result

Opening Brave browser window

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.67.123 Chromium: 126.0.6478.126 (Official Build) (64-bit) Revision | fc7619ef621fe4e6a0fa8b16c718f78ffc97a861 OS | Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.4529) JavaScript | V8 12.6.228.21 User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Command Line | "C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --load-extension="C:\Extension\6.9.1._0" --profile-directory=Default --disable-domain-reliability --enable-dom-distiller --enable-distillability-service --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --variations-insecure-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --component-updater=url-source=https://go-updater.brave.com/extensions Executable Path | C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe Profile Path | C:\Users\Abdelhaq\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default Variations Seed Type | Null

Channel information

• [X] release (stable)
• [ ] beta
• [ ] nightly

Reproducibility

• [X] with Brave Shields disabled
• [X] with Brave Rewards disabled
• [X] in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

No response

[Abdelhaq75]

letterly a couple of minutes after the issue, Brave crashed and gone was the error. I tried to reproduce it and even rebooted the pc, all well

[Abdelhaq75]

It's back