Export browser data

Brave Feature Requests
1

Hi,

we can import bookmarks and browser data but just export bookmarks…


please add an option for export browser data too !
it would be really useful
ty

2

I was just looking into this, so lets say I want to do a fresh windows reinstall, how do I backup my date ? I know how to export my bookmarks, but what about my browser data ? How do we export that ?

3

There is actually a way!
Click the top right corner where the 3 bars are.
image

Then Go to Bookmarks > Bookmark manager

image
image663×797 39.7 KB

On this page, click on the 3 dots and then on “Export bookmarks”

image
image1918×942 61.2 KB

And then just save the File to where you want

image
image1020×603 27.9 KB

And with this file you can import your Bookmarks from Brave to any browser you want.
Remember that Brave runs on Chromium, so any browser like Chrome, have the exact same feature. If you need help with something on brave you can search the same thing for chrome and do that by yourself.

Simplified:
3 bars on the top right corner > Bookmarks > Bookmark manager > 3 dots on the right side >
Export > Save

Hope this helps :)))

4

But, this will only save the bookmarks. What about my cookie data, sign ins, history and passwords etc?

5

What about when the files it exports are invalid and zero kb ?? How to remedy that on Windows 7 Enterprise?

Windows 7 x64 Enterprise V6.01 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 HP 2AF7 (HP 500-223w) English DirectX 11 + WDDM 1.1 BIOS 80.19 07/18/2014 RAM: 16 GB

Brave Version: Version 1.41.100 Chromium: 103.0.5060.134 (Official Build) (64-bit)

6

I was about to open a thread for this but this is already what I was going to suggest. Would be nice for you to be able to do this for legitimate reasons. Like making sure before you update the browser, you’re able to make a proper backup/import in a menu that saves everything important, or a checklist of stuff you can back up similar to the delete recent data. Especially if you’re several versions behind. If not manual, then automatically where it’ll first check the space needed (and notify if there isn’t), then parse the different bits of data, and back up those things in a separate back up folder next to user data. Then after updating, it’ll try and re-copy everything to the user’s current folder.

Maybe a way to have this done “safely” is to have it so you need to have a password or passphrase made on installation? Obviously this is impossible now but maybe it’s a feature that can be considered in the future.

Got the thought from this post NOTICE: Unexplained Data Loss Issue - #74 by Utidiysyisitdixoxohd
Other notable post by the same user