Question Brave Browser Sync

[nbartolo7]

If I activate sync between my desktop PC and phone's brave broswers, will the sessions add on top of each other? or will one session delete the other one? As in, will my phone's browsing session overwrite my PC's (or opposite)? Or neither, and both sessions will just add/mix themselves on top of each other in both devices? I’m afraid of losing one of the sessions in this process.

On their website it says :

When you add devices to a Sync chain, Brave Sync will initiate automatically. When this happens, information from each device will merge. Then, changes in any device will propagate and sync to the other devices and data will be the same across all devices for the synced data types.

But after that sentence, it shows a graphic I don't really get which seems to contradict the sentence a bit.

 

[Aeacus]

From the guide you linked:

However you may want to only Sync specific data between devices so that only those data are propagated when a change occurs. For example, you may want to only Sync bookmarks and passwords, but no other data between devices. You can do this by disabling the desired data types on a device, after-which that device will not receive that data from, nor will it send that data to other devices on the chain.

So, it depends on what data you allow to sync. If "All", then one session on e.g device #1 will be mirrored to all other devices that also have sync "All" enabled.

will the sessions add on top of each other? or will one session delete the other one?

Regarding this, as far as i know how sync in general works, what is the latest/most recent is the one that will be synced and mirrored across devices. So, for example, if session in your PC hasn't changed in 2 days, but session in your phone last saw change 1 day ago, the session in phone will be mirrored across all devices, overwriting all others, older sessions.

 

[nbartolo7]

From the guide you linked:

So, it depends on what data you allow to sync. If "All", then one session on e.g device #1 will be mirrored to all other devices that also have sync "All" enabled.


Regarding this, as far as i know how sync in general works, what is the latest/most recent is the one that will be synced and mirrored across devices. So, for example, if session in your PC hasn't changed in 2 days, but session in your phone last saw change 1 day ago, the session in phone will be mirrored across all devices, overwriting all others, older sessions.

Tried exporting bookmarks from my Brave Browser on Android and nothing happened. It just said "export successful", but gave me no prompt to save a .html file. Looked in my phone's downloads folder just in case, but it wasn't there. Tried to look online for the answer but found nothing. Any ideas?​

 

[Aeacus]

Tried exporting bookmarks from my Brave Browser on Android and nothing happened.

Found this:

Brave doesn’t have an export option for Android. You don’t have an Import option for bookmarks either. This is because Chromium hasn’t done it and this would require a lot of work for Brave to modify the code.

Source: https://community.brave.com/t/export-bookmarks-in-android/483524

 

[nbartolo7]

Found this:

Source: https://community.brave.com/t/export-bookmarks-in-android/483524

Nice find. Thanks. I don't see how to give you the Correct Answer trophy. Haven't seen that feature since last time I came to this forum.