Fedora 39 and 40 - Brave browser crashes every time I open it.
I now see i installed it via Flathub, and that’s not a reliable as the RPM version (which I have just installed). I can’t get the Flathub version of Brave to run, crashes before it runs. So I can’t use any ‘sync’ features to move my tabs, data, bookmarks etc to the RPM version.
I am left with only Files approach. but I am totally confused.
The Flathub version stores its data in .var/app/com.brave.browser, the contents look like this:
Not sure what you mean, assume you’re referring to ‘sync’, which I couldn’t use as I couldn’t get Flathub Brave to run at all. but weirdly, after many failures, it suddenly ran after I installed RPM version. I managed to use Sync quickly while it was working and solved the problem.
Thanks
This path is some kind of $HOME for apps inside Flatpak. (This is not an accurate description, but for simplicity, you can treat it as $HOME under some situations.) So if you want to copy its data out of Flatpak, you need to find corresponding parts of it’s normal path relative to ~/ .
And an application should never store user data in ~/.cache . As its name suggests, it’s just for cache, aka temporary data. Applications usually have data stored in ~/.local or ~/.config . Chromium stores its data in ~/.config/chromium . As Brave is a Chromium-based browser, it may store its data under a similar path.
Normally, browser’s builtin synchronization will not synchronize your cookie or website data, so you may need to re-login your visited website. Copy whole profile will keep those data.
