Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Apps and Programs
Brave Browser - Ready for Prime Time?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1835564" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>I did a bit of a trial of Brave a few months ago, but decided at that time there was no compelling reason to switch from Firefox and redo all the auto-logins, so when I decided now to try Brave permanently, at least for a while, I decided to trash everything "Brave" on my Mac and start with a clean slate.</p><p>I ran FAF to get rid of the last "Brace" remnant and then downloaded the Brave Browser from their website.</p><p></p><p>When I first launched it, I actually expected a pop-up window asking me if I wanted to import bookmarks etc. from my existing browser but that didn't happen.</p><p>I had to look under the Brave dropdown options to find the "import from browser" option - that gave the that window I posted with all the options preselected.</p><p>FireFox was also preselected as the browser to import these various items from - I checked at the time what other browsers Brave would import from, and there was Chrome and Safari (maybe one more) and also the option to import from a file.</p><p>I just imported from Firefox and I must say, that seems to have worked better than expected.</p><p>Other than not importing the user/password for 'financial sites', everything so far seems to be there.</p><p>And for 'financial sites' Firefox gives me the option to copy the password used on each site, so transferring that to Brave was relatively quick.</p><p></p><p>As to the number of ads and trackers blocked, I was surprised by the high number as well.</p><p>But when you watch the "unrelated" websites that get downloaded (looking at the bottom left of the FF browser window, I have no doubt that the count is correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1835564, member: 67742"] I did a bit of a trial of Brave a few months ago, but decided at that time there was no compelling reason to switch from Firefox and redo all the auto-logins, so when I decided now to try Brave permanently, at least for a while, I decided to trash everything "Brave" on my Mac and start with a clean slate. I ran FAF to get rid of the last "Brace" remnant and then downloaded the Brave Browser from their website. When I first launched it, I actually expected a pop-up window asking me if I wanted to import bookmarks etc. from my existing browser but that didn't happen. I had to look under the Brave dropdown options to find the "import from browser" option - that gave the that window I posted with all the options preselected. FireFox was also preselected as the browser to import these various items from - I checked at the time what other browsers Brave would import from, and there was Chrome and Safari (maybe one more) and also the option to import from a file. I just imported from Firefox and I must say, that seems to have worked better than expected. Other than not importing the user/password for 'financial sites', everything so far seems to be there. And for 'financial sites' Firefox gives me the option to copy the password used on each site, so transferring that to Brave was relatively quick. As to the number of ads and trackers blocked, I was surprised by the high number as well. But when you watch the "unrelated" websites that get downloaded (looking at the bottom left of the FF browser window, I have no doubt that the count is correct. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Apps and Programs
Brave Browser - Ready for Prime Time?
Top