TB1200
April 3, 2024, 11:29pm
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It’s been a while since sync was introduced and history was added but will there ever be a way to sync history that isn’t typed into the url bar?
I would estimate this to be 95%+ of my browsing activity being lost between devices because I rarely type anything other than Search into a URL bar.
I successfully converted to Brave as my default but this may be a dealbreaker after using it as a secondary for some years.
Is this a feature planned on the Brave roadmap?
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It already exists and is in use. Though it’s also causing issues as people are reaching max capacity and the sync chains are then not syncing. It’s something they are still actively working on.
TB1200
April 4, 2024, 12:25am
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it already exists and is in use
That is great news. Is it in alpha builds available to anyone or in very limited testing?
TB1200:
available to anyone
Should be automatically in play as long as you are using most recent version of the browser. I have disabled History because of the issues as I shared, but you can see where we discussed this in correlation to issue I’m sharing with you below:
@Saoiray
Okay, so is there a reason why we can’t/don’t have a warning appear that the average person could understand?
We should have it. The only reason why it wasn’t done from the beginning - it was expected to fix the issue in a fast way.
It shouldn’t only be randomly discovered when passwords, bookmarks, or whatever else suddenly isn’t visible.
Makes sense completely.
The issue is it now tries to sync all history rather than just typed history, right? And I don’t see a toggle for t…
And the Github from it is below:
opened 06:33PM - 08 Sep 23 UTC
closed 09:11PM - 19 Oct 23 UTC
feature/sync
QA Pass-Win64
QA/Yes
release-notes/include
QA/Test-Plan-Specified
OS/Android
QA Pass - Android ARM
OS/Desktop
Since CR117 Chromium uses history datatype instead of typed urls.
To fix https:… //github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/32857 regression, was done https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/20071. But we need a proper PR which in fact uses history datatype.
TB1200
April 4, 2024, 5:37pm
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Thank you so much for the updates. I wasn’t able to find this when searching initially. Hopeful to know it’s being worked on.