Sync extensions across devices

I found a temporal solution that works for me while a proper Sync function for our favorite browser is finished. It’s an extension called “Export links of all extensions”:

It will create an HTML file with links to all your current extensions, so it will save some valuable time. You’ll also be able to choose which ones you’ll need. Of course, you still will need to install those manually.

Hope it’s useful :wink:

Codo

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Supported. Full sync of history, settings, extensions just like Chrome is essential. I enjoy Brave but this will prevent me from permanently adopting it as default.

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This is a deal breaker… Brave just turned from the best browser to a useless piece of Junk. cant belive I wasted my time moving from chrome to brave and I cannot sych all my settings and extension over to other devices… Its been over 6 months now since this was requested and its still not implemented I am going back to chrome LOL

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I had two instances of Brave on my machine, one for personal, and one for work. Therefore, when getting a new computer re-installing all of the extensions and re-configuring all of the custom search engines has been a lot of extra work.

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Yet another +1. Not that it’ll help, but we shall see.

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I have about 10 extensions and actually only need some of them on different machines, as some users already mentioned.
Therefore “seamless” is very subjective term.

Even on Chrome when the extensions are sync’ed we/I have to (re)configure them (login, settings etc.).
Therefore the “profit” and a solution could be to let the user choose:
A. install the extensions once from another device. And not keep them in sync (e.g. Windows vs. Mac).
B. Show installed extensions on other devices (so we pick & install ones we need).
C. “Sync-mode”. With most complicated business logic and conflict management etc.

A and B must be “relatively” easier than C, but maybe good enough for 80% of people to start with.

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+1

This is ESSENTIAL. Without this, I will never be able to leave Chrome.

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Yes, It would be a great feature. <3

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I also would love this!
It is essential for brave to be able to sync settings, history, extensions etc with different devices using brave (just like chrome and firefox)

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The current implementation of bookmarks sync is useless. I can’t even get it to connect on two new Windows/brave installations at the moment. It just refuses to connect and I’ve had to find a third party extension to get he job done.

Brave needs Chrome’s profile-sync - if Microsoft can implement it in Edge preview I don’t know why Brave can’t.

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Ditto for syncing extensions across installations. However, please give an option of what to sync before syncing.

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I agree!!!

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This should’ve been a priority when developing a browser nowadays.

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Agree. For me and my friends sync of open tabs is only one deal-breaker that keeps from using Brave as main browser.

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I had to ditch Brave and go back to Chrome because I need extensions to sync (for work purposes). Also, bookmark syncing (and the whole syncing setup process) is a mess that often leads to duplicate bookmarks whenever I add a new syncing device. I really love Brave, but until syncing is done properly it is not usable for me.

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I signed up just to reply to these. I agree i wanted to leave Chrome for good but it looks like I might have to reconsider Brave because it doesn’t sync anything other than Bookmarks. I wanted to try the Beta version so I installed it and to my surprise nothing absolutely nothing came across from my current Brave which has all my settings, Bookmarks, themes, Extensions etc in to it but no way to move it to the Beta or even any other computer/device i have. This is a winning feature of chrome and I might just go back because for almost 12 months the devs haven’t replied nor has this been implemented. Such a good Browser let down by major issue.

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Devs, I realize that this is a huge undertaking but you have to at least dignify a response.

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Maybe this should be put here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sync

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And not just that, extension settings sync would be perfect, you cannot even imagine how painful is to keep my uMatrix rules and uBlock Origin filters synced between 3 Brave instances (2 desktops, 1 laptop)…

Not mentioning search history, that would be very useful…it is a bit ridiculous, we keep asking these things for years, while synchronization is the very essential feature in every other browser…

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Dude, Don’t change it’s not only Extensions that doesn’t sync it’s literally everything except bookmarks. That’s the only thing that syncs, I installed the beta version and it wanted me to set everything up again. That’s when i went back to Chrome.

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