Brave

Configure

Profiles

Profiles in Brave are AWESOME, similar to chromium but better...

• Brave seems to remember what desktop the windows were on!!! HELLLLLLLS YEAH
• For each profile, you get a name and customizable icon in the top-right of the toolbar, HELLSSSSSS YESSS
• Bookmarks etc. are all profile-specific, as expected

Finding Profile folder

This is a bit dicey as it does not actually match the profile name! I used this bit of ugliness to get a map of name to folder:

 💉 m@cast  [~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser] grep -Po "\"name\":\"[^\"]*?\",\"(pa|usi)" * -R
Default/Preferences:"name":"moodboom","pa
Profile 4/Preferences:"name":"es-1","pa
Profile 5/Preferences:"name":"mdmdev-1","pa
Profile 6/Preferences:"name":"Profile 2","pa
Profile 7/Preferences:"name":"ig-1","usi

Settings

Immediately change these Settings on any new profile:

• Get started > Profile name and icon > customize it!
• Get started > New Tab Page > shows > Homepage
• Appearance > Toolbar > Show home button ON, set to bitpost.com
• Brave Rewards > Show Brave Rewards in bar OFF
• Sync > I have a chain > paste, toggle Sync everything ON

Set up sync

Do this for each profile:

• Settings > Sync > Start a new Sync Chain > Computer > copy Sync Chain Code > save in private
• Make sure Sync everything is toggled ON
• You can now paste this chain into another computer to sync this profile there

Install

Copy and paste this all in one shot!

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser