It turns out I successfully imported my Brave bookmarks from my laptop to my “new” Win 11 Pro desktop machine. That gets me the same bookmarks on the Win 11 Pro machine that I had on the old Win 10 Pro machine something over a year ago, plus some others... because the old Win 10 Pro desktop machine’s bookmarks were the source I imported to the laptop at that time.
That gets me most of the important bookmarks, but loses last year’s when I was on the Win 10 Pro machine. There were quite a few links saved regarding computer problem, and a LOT of “pages of interest” and “reference stuff”, so, I’ll have to try to hunt through the actual “up to date” (almost!) file off the Win 10 Pro desktop machine (which I saved a copy of as a text file) to find all those “lost links”. I’ll likely try converting it and my new file (on the Win 11 Pro desktop machine) into Libre Office odt files, where I think I can hunt down differences in the files reasonably efficiently, and I know I can pull text of links out easily.
I did add a lot of bookmarks to the Win 10 Pro desktop machine in the last year”+” — the bookmarks file I “should” be able to pull the from the Win 10 Pro machine is almost 0.7 Mb bigger than the bookmarks file on the laptop that I just imported to the Win 11 Pro desktop machine.
It appears “something” happened to the bookmarks file on the Win 10 Pro desktop machine, but, I have no clue what.
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As for the rest, I suppose I might try FireFox again. In the past (10+ years ago?) it just felt too different to me from what I was used to, and some sites had problems with it. (To be fair, I find a few sites with pages Brave freezes video on. Like one of our local TV station’s radar loop.) But, granted, I was so busy with 1st work, and then care for my Dad when his health and mind started going south, that I didn’t play with FF extensively.
In the meantime, if nothing else, Brave kills off ads reliably when I want to play YouTube vids, esp. YT music vids, many of which that I like are very hard to find elsewhere.
That is great! I guess some/most is better than none!
Well that browser issue is a whole project in itself. I will share what I have been using for a few years now and it is highly effective. I don’t know if you caught it but Brave for Linux sucks and I found it isn’t as secure as they claim. They themselves are collecting data as much or more than other browsers. And they do not block all of the scripts on a page, just the ad tracking, but I am sure they have made deals on the side to allow chosen scripts to hit you anyhow. What I really do not like is that they take liberty with your box and stuff NOT related to to just browsing. So they are not just collecting your internet use for themselves but they are collecting unrelated data from your machine too.
I have played with just about all of the browsers and I ended up going back to FireFox. And here is why... You can not only just set the security levels, but you can go in and make advanced detailed custom settings about every process it does. And I use a FF plugin called NoScript. NoScript blocks absolutely EVERYTHING by default. Then you have to go and “allow” just the two or three that will make the page work. But it is still blocking the sometimes 75 or more scripts on that page. It takes a little extra effort but WELL WELL worth that extra work. But we are not in Kansas anymore. Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary solutions.