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Glitches in bookmarks and syncing. Improvement required and addition of new vital features #11953

Open tathastu871 opened 3 years ago

tathastu871 commented 3 years ago

I have 100 of tabs opened and my phone got corrupt and I had to format all opened tabs gone. They never got sync and now I had no option left to get them. IF APP WOULD BE HAVING A FEATURE TO EXPORT LIST OF OPENÈD TABS OR TO BOOKMARK ALL OPENED APPS AT ONCE I WOULD HAVE NOT SUFFERED SUCH LOSS

Chrome and Chromium are having sync working based on login via Google account and real time syncing to Google account means if we are logged in using Google account our data will be back Including open tabs.

But unfortunately brave sync is worthless. Not not be rude but regretting why I used brave I lost all data because among opened tabs in have bookmarked all but most were not synced also open tabs never got synced

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1) Related to Bookmarks: a) Add sorting option b)Add draggable scroll bar in bookmark menu c)Add option to export and import bookmarks as plain csv files. d)Add feature to bookmark all opened tabs at once e) Add feature to delete entire bookmark folder at once or add option to select all bookmarks at once and delete them. Because selecting individually thousands of bookmarks and deleting them is just impossible f) Add option to force sync on both android and pc version g) Add option to export list of opened tabs as plain file that can be imported to pc brave browser, because sync did not work and relying on sync is worthless, when immediate transfer of data is needed from android to pc version, export import will work fast

Please for god's sake make bookmarks sorted in descending order of time of creation. Currently bookmarks were saved in alphabetical order. Hence if i want to open a bookmark created two days ago and dont remember that site name i wont be able to search. Without remembering name of site or starting letter or name its impossible to search. And if we had to rememeber all sites url, then what is need of bookmark feature Also scrolling bar is so thin, that it cannot be dragged at once to bottom and hence need to scroll through all them and while scrolling if accidently exited then again all scrolling needs to be done again. So please add bookmark sorting option and add draggable scrollbar in bookmark menu and also the import/export function in bookmark

2)Sync related I dont know how brave sync works, but it would be better if it works by we click sync button and it will exporting bookmark, open tabs and other details as plain file and uploading them on server and on pc we would again click sync button and it will download those files and import automatically, It would be better instead of real time syncing.

Sync somtimes not work when rapidly multiple tabs are opened and bookmarked swiftly.

Also in case of some websites if we create bookmark after opening that site and after some scrolling through that site bookmark disappears.

Even if bookmarks seem to be created they are not synced and if i reinstall browser and re add sync chain some bookmarks are not shown.

Syncing of opentabs not work at all. After adding android and pc in sync chain i waited for 5 hours and kept browser opened in both device but opened tabs not synced.

Add option to force sync on immediate basis

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1.14.86

Website problems only

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Consider this issue on priority basis as bookmark and sync are essential features of any browser. If they were not working as needed, browser despite of advance functionality will be worthless.

kenherbert commented 3 years ago

1d is already possible. Bookmarks menu->Bookmark all tabs

tathastu871 commented 3 years ago

1d is already possible. Bookmarks menu->Bookmark all tabs

Possible only in desktop version not in android

kenherbert commented 3 years ago

😅 sorry, didn't see the Android label.

tathastu871 commented 3 years ago

I have added 2321 bookmarks in my mobile browser but after sync when i opened pc browser in it i have only 1565 bookmarks

tathastu871 commented 2 years ago

A better solution is to integrate the brave with google drive to store and sync backups of bookmark, history and opened tab list. This way brave developers don't have to maintain seperate storage servers and also the privacy of user is maintained as backup is stored in users personal drive rather than public servers