Brave Browser profiles on linux

Blog: https://equk.co.uk/2021/09/22/brave-browser-profiles

Simple script to easily create new brave profiles.

Clone this repo and copy the script somewhere accessible.

You can then rename/copy the script to the profile name required (script filename = profile name).

Optionally you may also want to change the profile_folder variable (default is $HOME/.brave_profiles)

• Easy creation of profiles
• Sandbox Check
• Custom commandline flags
• Detect associated Google Account & alert user

To enable emojis within brave browser you will need to install emoji fonts.

In Archlinux install noto-fonts-emoji

You may want to tweak mouse scrolling speed in Brave (there don't seem to be any built in options to do this currently).

There are a few options to set mouse wheel preferences outisde of Brave.

I personally use imwheel as it allows me to set scrolling preferences per application.

~/.imwheelrc

# Scroll Settings for Brave Browser
"^Brave-browser$"
    None, Up, Button4, 5
    None, Down, Button5, 5
    Shift_L,   Up,   Shift_L|Button4, 5
    Shift_L,   Down, Shift_L|Button5, 5
    Control_L, Up,   Control_L|Button4
    Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5

• Keep Google services (& logins) seperate
• Testing webapps
• Seperate other services from main profile
• Use differing configurations for services or webapps

After looking at profile data it seems Brave stores a reference to cookies for Google Accounts within the profile preferences file.

I'm not sure if this relates to analytics or is specific to Google related extensions / features.

I have added a check using this to warn users when starting brave profiles. (as I have seperate profiles setup for Google services like Youtube etc)

Website: https://equk.co.uk

Twitter: @equilibriumuk