Some caveats to note before an upgrade to the next generation of Brave browser.
Passwords are not saved
Brave (as Chromium) stores passwords in such a way that they are encrypted in a way tied to current PC. While the passwords are not kept or left behind on the PC itself, they won't be retrievable when you move to a new PC.
Certificates not portable
Brave (as Chromium) has no certificate manager. It uses Windows certificates manager. So, any certificates you install through the Brave interface are stored on the current local machine and will not be portable.
Some settings and extensions are locked per machine
Brave (as Chromium) locks specific settings to a given PC. This behavior is by design by the Chromium team. If you would like this changed, please open an issue on the brave-core repository. A suggested workaround is to sign in to Brave Safe Storage to restore all settings and extensions but this is not available on the current release of Brave.
And as stipulated in this thread :
Brave reset my browser settings
Sometimes, programs that you install can change your Brave settings without you knowing. For your safety, the browser checks if your settings have been changed every time you launch Brave. If Brave notices that something’s not right in your settings, it will automatically go back to the original settings.
Settings that might automatically get reset
- Default search engine
- Homepage
- Startup pages
- Pinned tabs
- Extensions
These issues are specific to Brave due to Chromium's design and not something we can work around without fixes to brave-core.
Import profile data from Muon
The current stable release (0.55) cannot handle migration of profile data from Muon but there is a work in progress. See brave/brave-core#729
Linked threads
Some caveats to note before an upgrade to the next generation of Brave browser.
Passwords are not saved
Brave (as Chromium) stores passwords in such a way that they are encrypted in a way tied to current PC. While the passwords are not kept or left behind on the PC itself, they won't be retrievable when you move to a new PC.
Certificates not portable
Brave (as Chromium) has no certificate manager. It uses Windows certificates manager. So, any certificates you install through the Brave interface are stored on the current local machine and will not be portable.
Some settings and extensions are locked per machine
Brave (as Chromium) locks specific settings to a given PC. This behavior is by design by the Chromium team. If you would like this changed, please open an issue on the brave-core repository. A suggested workaround is to sign in to Brave Safe Storage to restore all settings and extensions but this is not available on the current release of Brave.
And as stipulated in this thread :
These issues are specific to Brave due to Chromium's design and not something we can work around without fixes to brave-core.
Import profile data from Muon
The current stable release (0.55) cannot handle migration of profile data from Muon but there is a work in progress. See brave/brave-core#729
Linked threads