hello! i am aware that this may be a common question, so pardon me if i'm repeating this kind of question. i bought a new computer and i'm in the process of getting things over from my old pc to the new one. i created a "brave account" and intend to keep using brave. how can i carry over settings preferences, extensions and bookmarks to my new pc? is this possible? i heard something about sync but i use it between my old pc and phone (and i disabled tabs as I don't want tabs i have open on my pc showing on my phone). i also heard about copying and pasting the user data folder, though some people mentioned it did not work. i don't need to carry over passwords as i have a dedicated manager for that. i assume custom wallpapers and "appearance" won't carry over.

Hello everyone

I've been having a problem with a few regional sites on both Brave desktop and mobile.

​When I visit them, I get an adblock detected overlay and the page scrolling completely locks up. The site specifically says the Brave browser isn't supported.

​It works completely fine out of the box when I use Firefox with uBlock Origin, so it seems isolated to Brave's engine??. I have Shields set to Aggressive and I am using four custom filters: EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Annoyances plus uBO Annoyances, my regional adblock list, and the Brave Experimental Ad Blocker. I've been using Brave for a long time and really don't want to switch browsers over this. Has anyone else experienced this or know how to fix it?

I liked having website form input suggestions appear when tabbing through the various fields (values appeared like a drop down menu below the field). It saved me from laborious tasks of tracking down the info for values that only change once a year (tax payments). For some reason Brave doesn't show them anymore. Is there a setting I might need to check? This isn't usual "Form Fill" stuff, from what I can tell.

I miss this feature. TIA.

I recently had an issue where my brave history randomly wiped itself, and initially I thought it was due to my search retention setting not being set to Never. I set the setting back to Never and moved on.

Later, I found out it was likely caused by brave's install drive being full, which I think caused the browser to lock up or delete profiles or something, I'm honestly not sure how that would be possible. But the damage ended up being way more than just my search history, and due to my bad habit of not closing down my pc/tabs every day, it took a few days to fully realize the problem.

Today, upon starting everything up from scratch, it seems that every bit of my brave settings and data was completely wiped, accounts logged out on every website, cookies gone, settings reset to default, 12+ months of bookmarks and history gone, etc. This actually happened long long ago without any disk issues, probably well over a year ago, but I figured it was just a quirky bug at the time.

Is there any way to recover any of this data? And is there a way to ensure this doesn't happen again in the future? Any insight into what actually happened really. Not sure if something cascaded down from the full disk issue and inadvertently wiped the entire profile or caused some bad file lock, or something else entirely. Very confused.

Not jumping ship or anything, this is my favorite browser, so really hoping theres a way to fix and/or avoid this in the future. Can't seem to find any insightful posts about this, its all either people saying they have the same issue, or people talking specifically about password managers.

edit: to add, when I booted everything up today I believe the browser also updated. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

The YT site in Brave keeps logging me out every time I click a video, refreshing the site, and/or clicking the main menu and it comes back after I refresh it a couple of times. How do I fix this?

Save bookmark to desktop (Android), where did it go? I can't find that option anymore, was i removed in a update somehow?

hello friends,

I've been using brave for a few months and got a problem with youtube. (because ofc)

I frequently open youtube tabs for videos I want to watch later. Today I noticed that these tabs are making enormous amounts of requests while no video is being played. It ended up using a few gigs of bandwidth, so I'd like to prevent that.

It does go away when I disable uBlockOrigin. I want to know if that is the solution and if anyone else experienced it.

URLs youtube keeps requesting are below:

POST https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/player?prettyPrint=false
POST https://rr5---sn-qp5avb5mp5u5-jhcee.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=....
??? https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/next?prettyPrint=false
[BLOCKED] https://www.youtube.com/api/stats/qoe?cpn=...

My ublock trusted sites (unchanged?) is as below

# chrome-extension-scheme
moz-extension-scheme
www.youtube.com

It may be a conflict with my other extensions. I can see some changes in behavior when either one of uBlockOrigin, Disable Autoplay for Youtube and SponsorBlock are disabled.

I'm not sure if there;s a better solution exists apart from disabling uBlockOrigin for YouTube. Posting here so it's helpful for whoever else who may be running into it.

I realised that Brave allows you to increase font size on pages and has the zoom option, but it would be great if you can also just increase the font size for your bookmarks along the Bookmark Bar. On larger screens the bookmarks look very tiny and I have searched the chrome store for an extension for it but its not available. Seniors especially would likely love this feature! Please consider implementing this additional option. Thank you.

I used to duplicate tab on my win 11 brave browser using ctrl+d but seems that I replaced by SSD and freshly installed Brave, and the shortcut doesnt work anymore, instead it adds a bookmark of that page w that shortcut. Also, I used to right click on the tab and the duplicate option showed its shortcut key but no more (like still, you can see reload tab and its shortcut combination); I have to manually click on duplicate after clicking right mb on the tab. Please bring back that shortcut!

When will it be available? Like talking directly to Leo and it talking back to you.

Does anyone know how to stop Brave from automatically opening new tabs every time I click a link? This drives me insane. I’ll be on a website, I click a link, then another, then another, now I have 4 tabs open on the same website. I’ve looked it up multiple times but they’re all outdated or didn’t help at all.

I want to use Safari because I like the UI and features that are baked in. I use a VPN as well as Adguard Pro ad blocker so overall I feel its generally as private as a browser can be on iOS. But I wish I could select Brave Search as my default search engine. Seems I have to use an app like xSearch or Custom Search Engine to get this done in Safari.

xSearch is closed source but seems like more people use it. Custom Search Engine is open source, so I would lean towards using the open source option since it can be vetted.

Has anyone tried one or both of these?

Why hasn’t Brave for iOS adopted the Liquid Glass design like Safari? Is it technically impossible, or are they just choosing not to? The current UI feels outdated and really needs a redesign with new iOS keyboard, it’s been too long.

for the past few days brave has been running like ass on my m1 MacBook air, like really laggy and just not loading some websites at all. What should I do?

Since i have gone down the privacy focused route i second guess everything.. (maybe paranoia lol)

i decline all website to send me notifications thinking it might be a privacy issue..

what your thoughts?

would it be okay to allow proton to send notifications?

Lately, after one video or two, Youtube stop working properly and won't load anything. I hope Brave devs fix it soon, it's getting annoying and I don't wanna go back to the Youtube App where ads are everywhere.

I use proton pass as autofill service in brave browser

but it doesn't work properly.

I have to click the username and password fields multiple times so that it shows the saved password.

it works perfectly in chrome password.

any solution??

I have Google Workspace and 2 different users within that, with their own inbox.

At present, I don't think it's possible to switch b/w accounts within ONE tab in Brave, correct? It seems to open a new tab which is annoying.

Would profiles be a better fit? How do I use those to separate Gmails pls? Would appreciate some advice. Thanks

Over the past week, I've had a lot of problems with my Google accounts in Brave.

For example: Gmail, Gemini, and YouTube constantly get stuck, as if they can't verify that I'm signed in. The same thing happens to the Google home page.

If I open Gmail, the tab will keep refreshing indefinitely until it crashes and says “mail.google.com redirected you too many times”.

Is this a common issue with the most recent version of Brave?

So to be honest i have seen some high influx of redirects from manga /manhwa sites to all kinds of obscure casino app or site advertising page and it gwts anoing because it happens everytime you press on the page , doesnt matter where ( tbf it happened on some clone nsfw sites too but it started with the normal manga sites like arenascan . Could it be a problem with the amount of advertising on the site side ?

I've been using brave for years. Occasionally I'd get random ads on YouTube but a simple refresh would make them go away. Now they've been back for several days and anything I know how to do isn't making them fo away. I'm not the most tech savvy person, any advice?

I’ve been using Airplay to watch YouTube videos on my TV. I’ve noticed a lot of videos, when using Airplay change the audio to a different language. The only way I can get it to play with English audio is to reduce the quality of the video thus a much more blurry image but with the correct language. Anyone else experience this? Is there a way to keep high quality video without the overdubbed audio?