Re Bookmarks not sticking: Perhaps, a complete Reset of:
Locate the Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files, and delete them?
Location of BB user profiles; see:
‘Browser wont open - #2 by 289wk’
Saving Cookies and Some Site Data
In a Brave Browser New Window go to the On exit tab at: brave://settings/clearBrowserData ← There, DISABLE both: Cookies and other site data and Site and Shields Settings.
Tips regarding Brave Shields:
I have more success, with:
- Brave Shields UP
- Either Allow All Cookies or Block 3rd Party Cookies, but NOT Blocking All Cookies
- Allowing JavaScripts from specific sources, but NOT Allowing All JavaScripts
- Trackers & Ads treatment: Aggressive (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
- Fingerprinting (aka footprinting) blocking: Strict (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
I almost NEVER use:
- All of Brave Shields UP
- All of Brave Shields DOWN
Shields Basics
How do I configure global and site-specific Shields settings?
How do I use Shields while browsing?
The 'Continue where you left off' Setting
The “Continue where you left off” setting, is intended to preserve specific site data - useful for resuming sessions (not for preserving Bookmarks, Extensions, Passwords, Sync, Tabs).
If you have the browser set to launch with specific sites or Continue where you left off, sites that load when the browser is relaunched, will appear in history.
Continue where you left off only applies to applications that are fully “Quit”. In Windows, hitting the x button to “close” the browser effectively does this. On MacOS however, clicking the RED button (upper/left corner of the browser window), only closes the window - it does not quit the process.