Small things that are extremely annoying for a former firefox user

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Hi!
To start out, so that you know my heart behind this post. I want to thank you for making a fantastic browser, with well needed features now and for the future.

When coming to the issues…
Firstly. to get me sign up on the forum just to give feedback is a miracle in it self. I’ve thought about it 100 times before doing it.
To be able to give feedback, it should be a button inside the browser, right under the settings menu, not hidden somewhere, not require any login. This is critical, the get the lazy users feedback. Maybe a capatcha to sort out spam.

Secondly. This is one of the first things as a former firefox user that has just plagued me every day since the shift. Why am I cast out of the menues every time I move a bookmark around in the bookmark bar. So annoying.

The bookmarks manager isn’t any better, because it keeps forgetting my changes. So terrible I don’t have words for that part. Edit:(This got fixed when I left the sync chain)

Thirdly, Why can’t I drag and drop a tab to the bookmark menu, in order to create a new bookmark. Really useful feature that sped things up in firefox.

Fourthly, sometimes the beta sync chain, just reorganizes all my my bookmarks folders in the bookmark bar after adding a new unit. And that issue, togeather with alle the above, just creates a nightmare for the “trying to be efficient” user.

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I agree with all these suggestions…especially the one about being cast out of a drop down menu just after I drop a new bookmark inside. This is very annoying because I want to edit the bookmark instead of it displaying a crude URL I want to give it a memorable name. As it is now, I have to drop in the new bookmark, the drop down menu closes, I have to navigate back to where ever the new book mark is and this can be several clicks to get there, then edit, then navigate back again to check my work. VERY ANNOYING. Just leave the drop down menu of bookmarks OPEN until I change focus with a click of the mouse off topic! Thanks.

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Thanks for the support in these matters Jim. Today I switched back to Firefox, mostly because of the non working bookmark sync. It’s quite obvious that firefox is slower, at least under KDE Plasma, but it’s functional.

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Hi @Oghi,

Welcome to community. I apologize for the delay in response on our end.

Thank for the thoughtful feedback that you provided above. I assure you that we are constantly working to make Brave a better product for our users. I will pass this feedback onto the team.

Thank you again for taking the time to leave this post. Let us know if there’s anything that we can be of help to answer.

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Howdy, @Oghi, and welcome. I hear you on the other points, but in the case of drag and drop, I do this routinely. When you try it are you clicking on the lock/Brave icon/favicon at the left of the address bar? Doing so, I can drag the URL to the Bookmarks Bar main, into a folder there, etc., on Windows, Mac, and Linux Mint 19.

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Big thank you hnktong! It works, I’m used to dragging the tab to the bookmarks from firefox. .(Even though I think the Firefox way is more logical:)
One thing solved. But I really need the sync link to work before returning. But I’m sure that will be addressed in the near future. Drop down closing I can live with, but really hope it gets addressed.
Thanks for feedback on my feedback.

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Hello Oghi,

Like you I have been a diehard Firefox guy for a long time until it started to go downhill and influenced me give Brave a try. I found Brave to be beneficial with some of my issues with the fox and have used both for few years now.

I share your significant disappointment regarding the bookmark menu view disappearing after any single action within it.

It is very surprising to see so few posts on this inconvenience.

I am greatly looking forward to this issue being dealt with asap too.

Have you experienced any improvement since your post?

In Junes 2023 I posted the following reply to: Persist bookmark toolbar view when dragging/dropping bookmarks

"Thank you for posting this request greenthread!

This behavior has been driving me crazy too.

Although what I am experiencing seems a bit different.

No matter if I relocate a single bookmark or folder within the main view list, or drag one from or to different folders, the entire bookmark view disappears in every instance once the drag is complete.

Brave powers that Be… please make it so the Bookmark list drop down menu view stays visible, after any rearrangements, until we manually close it or click on a bookmark to open it. Or, please advise me if I am ignorant to a setting that controls this feature.

Brave has become my favorite browser and I appreciate it’s availability. However, it seems odd that this historically common feature behavior is not a part of the experience like it is with many of the other browsers out there.

Thank you for listening!"

We need to keep bugging the Devs (somehow) to take care of this for all Brave users! Anybody have any suggestions?

How about this…

To anyone reading this please consider placing a Vote at each of the following posts regarding the disappearing bookmark menu:

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Hold drop down bookmark menu open after adding a bookmark