Suggestions
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Extensions
May interest, re “external_extensions.json” file:
At Brave Browser Startup
Wish I had thought of the following switch setting, earlier:
Brave Browser > Settings > Get Started > On Startup > Continue where you left off
I would select: “Open a specific page or set of pages” and I would choose “about:blank”
Because an Internet browser needs to start, and then just sit there, prepared . . . instead of immediately upon starting, then promptly having to do things.
First “To do” – Check the Brave Browser Task Manager (maybe take a screenshot for ref.)
Second “To do” – In a New Private Window, visit “https://html.duckduckgo.com/html”
Because the DuckDuckGo web site is simple.
If the Startup check list passes muster, then issue commands.
PS. Recent example of a problem with the Continue where you left off switch:
PS. MetaMask has been a problem, but one person found a fix:
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Backups
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Passwords backup
Good that you are using LastPass (password manager).
Recommend that you occasionally create a backup, by using for example, WinZip, in order to .zip compress:
BraveSoftware folder backup at C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\BraveSoftware
Name the newly-created .zip file with a date stamp: “20220301_Tuesday_BraveSoftware_fldr_bkup.zip” – or something like that, in order to know for certain re what and when.
Create a System Restore Point
Create a new System Restore Point, whenever the thought occurs to you. Follow the date stamp convention, previously mentioned. Thus, you will know what YOU created, vs whatever the OS would do.
Bookmarks manual backup
Use the Brave Browser application’s “Bookmarks Manager”, to back up your Bookmarks (“Export bookmarks”). Follow the date stamp convention, previously mentioned.
Copy all such backups, to an attached, external drive.
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Become a master of all the settings at:
brave://settings/clearBrowserData
brave://settings/cookies
brave://settings/content
brave://settings/content/javascript
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Be accustomed to monitoring whichever of the following are available on your computing device:
- OS Actvity Monitor
- OS Task Manager
- Brave Browser Task Manager
- OS Performance Monitor
- OS Resource Monitor
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Become familiar with Developer Tools > Network tool and Developer Tools > Application tool.
How to use Developer Tools
“https://www.lifewire.com/web-browser-developer-tools-3988965”
“https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference/”
“https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-guide-chromium/”
Developer Tools > Network tool is where you search for sources of scripts and other items that will qualify despite their not being obvious scripts (www.amazon.com).
Developer Tools > Application tool is where you will find the sources of cookies (www.amazon.com).
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Monitor network activity – NetLimiter 4:
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How to flush DNS cache
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Windows OS has a diagnostic tool named “Event Viewer”. How to get it started and some basics about its use, are at;
There is a main window for the application. The particular events of interest re your issue, would show in the Custom Views > Administrative Events as depicted in the illustration:
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Do not be alarmed by the “Error” and “Warning” labels. With experience, using Event Viewer, one sees such alarms, often.
The object of the exercise – if you choose to take a look – is to be prepared and have that Event Viewer window open and in a location within your computer display, so that you can observe events that are being listed, while you are also using Brave Browser.
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PS. You know of the Windows OS Task Manager. Brave Browser also has a Task Manager – search for those terms under the Brave Help menu.
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For taking notes, try EditPad Lite / EditPad Pro
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How to read DMP files
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Possibly related to the following “soft reset” thing:
Sometimes, Brave Browser does a “soft reset” thing – seems like it, and some settings and things are forgotten / “lost!”
- bookmarks
- cookies
- extensions
- passwords
- sync (memory?)
- tabs
- windows
The more prepared you are, the better. And you in particular, have a lot to offer to the Brave Community, because you had a:
“wallet seed / password and was able to recover that connection easily”
There are a lot of people here, who have been wondering how to do that.
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PS. A great backup program:
News to me, they also have GoodSync for backing up Android:
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PS. There is a MetaMask Community:
Mac OS Tips
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Location of BraveSoftware folder in Mac user’s account:
/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware
Location of the Default folder that contains the default Profile 1 after fresh installation:
/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
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How to compress a file or folder on the Mac
Select the file or folder. Next, in the Finder > File menu . . . select the Compress . . . function for that item. The function in the menu might say “Compress ‘BraveSoftware’”
A .zip compressed version of the “BraveSoftware” folder will eventually be produced, in the same directory as the original item. You might rename new .zip compressed item (using a date stamp):
“20220214_Monday_BraveSoftware_bkup.zip”
About Compress:
“https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/mac_os_x_controlling_compressed_files”
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Brave Browser Crash Reports (on a Mac)
Brave Browser will produce Crash Reports without you being required to adjust a setting. How to find Crash Reports; and, how to read them:
In addition, you may want to automatically send Crash Reports to Brave Support:
brave://settings/privacy/?search=Automatically+send+diagnostic+reports
If you enable that switch, Crash Reports should also show in a Brave Browser > Settings . . . window at:
brave://crashes
Make note of the Crash Report ID numbers, because Brave Support will want those, when you report a problem.
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Mac OS users: BBEdit (text editor)
Try the free download.
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Official parameters of ChromeOptions and ChromePrefs
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How to use command line flags in Brave
“https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044860011-How-Do-I-Use-Command-Line-Flags-in-Brave”
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List of Brave URLS – including Brave Internals
brave://chrome-urls/
Examples
brave://media-internals
brave://net-internals
brave://net-internals/#dns
brave://password-manager-internals
brave://sync-internals
brave://tor-internals
brave://bookmarks
brave://crashes
brave://downloads
brave://extensions
brave://flags
brave://settings
brave://version
brave://wallet
List of CHROME URLS – lengthy, with descriptions:
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Brave Release Notes
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Brave Browser Settings Tip
I do not know the technical reasons why . . . but I have found:
In order to adjust Brave Browser > Settings . . . and have them stick – better / more reliably – for whichever is your favored, routine, ordinary window when running Brave Browser:
- New Window
- New Private Window
- New Private Window with TOR
then have ONLY a new window of your favored, particular window Open, prior to adjusting Settings. And use in the URL address: “about:blank” (no quotes). Then give the command to get the Brave Browser > Settings window to open.
And sometimes, you may find, that you also had to fall back to, first having ONLY a New Window open, prior to adjusting Settings. This fallback step, because you noticed that the Settings that you adjusted, did not stick for, let us say, the New Private Window as your favored window . . . so you fall back to having ONLY the New Window open, and then adjust Settings.