I want the legacy wallet back, the new wallet corrupts the entire browser!

[Michel.B]

The new Brave Wallet destroys the complete performance of the browser.
I have been using the Brave browser for two years with great satisfaction.
Until recently I used the old Brave Wallet (legacy version) on my desktop.
A very plain and easy wallet. Everything worked well.

Then recently, after I had signing problems, I’ve setted up the new version of the wallet. But couldn’t use it after importing the seedphrase because I created a different password that I didn’t write down.

So I continued to use the legacy wallet for the time being.

But now there was an update and I was finally able to get the new wallet ready to go again and the import of the phrase worked without the password that I no longer had.

Now the problems are really starting:

• Since I’ve been using the new wallet, my browser has been extremely slow.
• The signing requests take a very long time to be recognized by the wallet.
• The balances takes forever to load.
• When I close the browser, 10 windows tasks from Brave start in the background until the browser finally closes. Until then I can’t open it again.
• If I call up the wallet and then decide to cancel it because it takes too long, my wallet request continues in the background and I can no longer use the browser.
• It laags and freezes.
• If I open any website that has Web3 services, I can’t leave the site until the Brave Wallet answered this approaches in the background.

So today I decided to reinstall the browser!

I used the option to export my wallet and instead of my Seephrase that has different words, I got a 62 digit code.
That’s strange I thought, but ok.
Now, as I have installed the Brave browser completely new, I want to recover my wallet. And there is only one way to do this:
The Seedphrase! BUT the 62 digit code after exporting is it not!!!

And now?
What a bad experience with this new wallet, I would love to have my legacy version back.
All this colorful and fancy stuff is worth nothing if it’s slow and not working!!

[jleonard]

@Michel.B

I used the option to export my wallet and instead of my Seephrase that has different words, I got a 62 digit code.
That’s strange I thought, but ok.
Now, as I have installed the Brave browser completely new, I want to recover my wallet. And there is only one way to do this:
The Seedphrase! BUT the 62 digit code after exporting is it not!!!

The code that you have is your private key, which is different than the seed phrase. The private key can be used to recover a single account, but not an entire wallet (multiple accounts)

Below are screenshots for where you can import your private key into either the legacy or new wallet

[Evan123]

Hello @Michel.B!

To add onto what @jleonard mentioned, here’s some additional info to help clarify the difference between recovery phrases and private keys.

BIP-39 Recovery Phrase

Thanks!

[Michel.B]

Thanks a lot!
Interesting, I didn’t know that actually.

[Michel.B]

Thank you also, for the quick answer and instruction

Here are two screenshots of my wallet UI:

I was confused, as I didn’t acknowledge the new " Back up now" feature.
My way let me into the fullscreen wallet and there I didn’t notice the menu button, as I thought I’ve already more options to the left now, like the Account menu.
Maybe an information on the Export screen would be nice, so I could take the shortcut from there to my seedphrase.

*Edit:

• That gray boxes, is what I mainly see most of the time in my wallet
  Could you make it green maybe hahaha
• what does this radio symbol next to the “back up now” mean?

[jleonard]

@Michel.B

what does this radio symbol next to the “back up now” mean?

The symbol is a safe