Abandoning Brave

I would really like to switch from Firefox to Brave. But there a are a couple of things that Brave will not do that are just maddening:

  1. There is no way to single-click a bookmark (in the sidebar, on the bookmark bar, etc.) and have the bookmark open and focus on a new tab).
  2. There is not way to type a search or url in the url box and have Brave open and focus on a new tab when Enter is hit.
  3. The folders in the bookmarks sidebar do not expand into a tree (like a folder in Finder). Rather, folders can only be opened.
    I know these may seem like petty issues, but I am just too used to these functions that I find it too frustrating to use Brave without them. Iā€™ve tried workarounds, but nothing solves the problems.
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Just note, Brave hasnā€™t modified how bookmarks work from standard Chrome/Chromium. If any feature requests like this would need to be coming from upstream Chromium source.

  1. Alt+Enter
  2. The main bookmarks page (Ctrl+Shift+O) has a tree view, and there are extensions that have the same if you donā€™t want to open a new tab.
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Thanks for your response.
I knew about alt-enter. I was looking for a way to have the behavior by just hitting Enter.
I cannot get CTRL-O to do anything. I am on a Mac. Tried Command-O and Option-O but nothing opend main bookmark page.

Sorry, itā€™s Ctrl+Shift+O (on Windows and Linux)
Try āŒ˜ + Option + b on a Mac

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  1. Mobile or 1 extra step
  2. New tab 1st
  3. Mobile or 1 extra step

What youā€™re giving up to be just a smidge inflexible to a realtively miniscule new set of habits is exponential in comparison, I can assure you of that. Forget Privacy for a second ā€¦ which youā€™ll NEVER read uttered from my fingers again in 2 lifetimes ā€¦ is equivalent to approximately 8 to 14 24 hour days of your life per year, conservatively and realistically when all the tabulations are in. Iā€™ve been with Brave pretty much since Brave, and as Iā€™ve asserted to many here since my first full year had concluded, the ā€œtime savedā€ section of the homepage if you have it enabled is grossly underestimating and playing devils advocate to the 13th power. I have Zero qualms about saying that, knowing full well that I know exactly Squat about your usage, browsing habits, and/or sites used or data streamed, etc. Year in and out I consistently have 2 to 3 weeks of 24 hour days added back to my life ā€¦ each year for however many years that itā€™s been now @Mattches @Saoiray @steeven
yā€™all may remember the year I was the biggest pain in your butts trying to learn EVERY detail of the Brave universe and adking questions that made ya wonder what era I traveled forward from :face_in_clouds: ā€¦ and that I still dunno, but ā€¦ I DO however know the veracity of my statement here is WORD and will be quantifiable 1, 10, 100 years from now! Itā€™s been consistent across enough time for me to know it to be true.
As a fellow human, for no other reason than to help a complete stranger, cuz thatā€™s what weā€™re supposed to do, even when no oneā€™s looking, Iā€™d implore you to ease yourself into it, as it only takes our species 2 weeks to develop new habits & make them as automatic as breathing. Youā€™ll gift yourself whatever dough ya make in a week extra to yourself year one. I donā€™t say 2 or 3 weeks, as Iā€™m retired, and my spine got nuked in 93 so I sleep 1/2 as much and have twice as much free time as the average bear, Yogi joke there, as most folks, so ya most likely cant ā€œsaveā€ as much time as me, cuz ya most likely donā€™t ā€œspendā€ as much as me, if that makes sense. Youā€™d probably be the 100 to 150th peeps Iā€™ve broken it down to over the years, online that is, that to the 10th afk, and I donā€™t just guess at these very educated guesstimates, the 1st 2 years I held a microscope to Brave, as well as a plethora of CSVs, Tables, charts, XLSXs and XMLs, specific to my uasage obviously, i didnt just phone it in, I cane correct, and of course, a hickup maybe here maybe there, yet still stellar as a start up though, 90% Peter Murphyā€™s, looking for BATs and bitchinā€™ about their free dough, usually after they were being, ā€œquestionableā€ anywho, so if youā€™re here, asking this, and use FF, Iā€™d feel pretty safe saying also, youā€™re usage is mostly likely average on the low end to well above the average civilians.
To be breviloquent, you have so very little, teeny, tiny to loose, and an entire full packed S**t load to gain ā€¦
admins and mgmt can confirm, I get exactly nada, zilch, nil, ZERO for saying this, and my opinions may or may not be that of the station :blush: ā€¦ so, other than throwing a lifeline to a random fella, that may or may not even give a crap about what I had to say, but I saw somethinā€™ so dang right, I had to say somethinā€™, right? Totally up to you if ya grab on, and I have no expectations, so Iā€™m 100% Cool with the time I spent here meaning nada, but I know if ya do grab on, a decade or so from now, youā€™ll appreciate it and maybe spend this time yourself doing similar, most likely much better. I STILL donā€™t believe folks that say I canā€™t ā€œsave the worldā€ never have, never will, I just have the wisdom to know I can only do it 1 random act of kindness at a time. Itā€™s grass roots I know, but Iā€™ve seen it make a difference every decade for the last 5, and a little better is all I ever had hopes for. Brave MOST DEF helps make it a little better for me, and thatā€™s also WORD!
That said, Iā€™m here to go be a squeaky wheel to some big wigs, but it wonā€™t be about this ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ I do sincerely ā€¦ truly hope ya do yourself the favor and give it a good go.
Much love!!! :v:
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ā€œWithout ART, the eARTh would just be ā€˜ehā€™!ā€
įƒĪ“. Ē

Postscript @Mattches @Saoiray @steeven @Evan123 Firstly, Thanks for ALL you do, keep this amongst the heartbeat, e.g. yourselves, donā€™t kick it up the chain so I get suckered into being Tony the Tiger here or something, cuz ya know, like Florence, I got the Love and would. I gotta go find the Leo guy again, I think the email correspondence got eaten by the ever deteriorating Hotmail Iā€™ve used since Hotmail, at this point, its mostly the sign up SPAM catcher, searched something a couple days ago in notso hotmail and saw an emailbpushing close to 30 years ago, F**k Im getting old. My first few SEO articles only come up on the Wayback machine :nauseated_face: i just have some more i-deers for the Lion, fine tuning, starting to actually suppliment with Gword again i instances and wanna helo ā€¦ like always, pro-bono as always as well :blush: You ROCK, Love yā€™all :v:

Also, Skiff is the Proton w/o the backdoor stabbers, just as a random addition for you techies, just came up on a year, and its stand up and solid. My hotmail addy is purely nostalgia at this point, obviously. I also still have myspace and a disk with Napster, so ā€¦ there ya go, my contribution to my Homies. Ya probably already knew, but if ya dont know, now ya know :grin:

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Iā€™m the opposite. I wanted to switch to Firefox because Brave doesnā€™t work well on a couple sites I visit, but Firefox employs an annoying sidebar that I havenā€™t figured out how to disable.

Easily reproducible ? Which sites?

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Yes, you are right. I am also facing this problem.

Is there any update?

Happy to investigate specific site issues not working in Brave, just need sample urls.

If its private, free to DM me

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