I was using Chrome before Brave; bookmarks imported flawlessly.
Hmmmm......like Brave, but two problems:
1. It DID NOT import all my bookmarks from Chrome and missed most of them that I use a lot - have to re-open Chrome to get to those bookmarks;
2. Brave seems to block a lot of graphics/pics on the web for some reason. They show up in Chrome, but not in Brave.